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State Of Nature Morally Acceptable
1,880 wordsEthics, July 1999 v 109 i 4 p 739 Justification and Legitimacy ( ). (philosophy of the state) A. John Simmons. Abstract: Different arguments are needed to show that a state is justified and that it is legitimate. Justifying the state is associated with the treatises of 18 th-century philosophers. The Lockean approach to this issue captures features of institutional evaluation that the Kantian approach does not. Standard justifications of the state are offered to those motivated by objections to ...
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Morally Acceptable Morally Correct
1,074 wordsCannibalism, what do you think of it? Is it morally correct? Does the theory of ethical relativism support it or does it knock it down? Throughout this paper I am going to evaluate the pros and cons of ethical relativism for a case concerning cannibalism. An American man by the name of Daniel went to South America, for the reasons of writing a book on it and publishing it in the United States, to study a native tribe and to try to become part of it. While Daniel was studying this tribe they acce...
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Morally Acceptable Divine Laws
534 wordsJustice 1 Divine law or Civil Law: Which one would you follow? Every society everywhere in the world follows different laws, just like every country in the world. These laws might differ on how it is being implemented or might differ in forms, but it shares same goals and that is to protect and preserve peace and order in its respective states. It provides awareness to its people of their rights and serves as a guide for their acts that are acceptable and prohibited. Also, it is a basis of wheth...
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Physician Assisted Suicide Terminally Ill Patients
3,004 wordsPhysician-Assisted Suicide is defined as suicide in which a physician supplies information and / or the means of committing suicide (e. g. a lethal dose of sleeping pills, or carbon monoxide gas) to a person, so that individual can easily terminate their own life (? Passive Euthanasia? ). Some terminally ill patients are in unbearable pain and / or experiencing an unbearably poor quality of life (? Passive Euthanasia? ). They would rather end their lives than continue until their body finally gi...
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Corporate Social Responsibility Ethical Decision Making
8,330 wordsCORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Because society is fundamentally based upon performance and profit, it is not unusual to find that it is necessary to impart a sense of corporate social responsibility with regard to contemporary commerce. The ethical approaches of purpose, principle and consequence are integral components of business social performance; itemizing these contributions finds one incorporating the interests of ethics and morality within the corporate structure, essential concepts tha...
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Corporate Social Responsibility Ethical Decision Making
2,694 wordsCorporate Social Responsibility CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY By Lori S. Mohr-Corrigan, For The Paper Store? October 1999 VISIT web for more information on using this paper properly! Because society is fundamentally based upon performance and profit, it is not unusual to find that it is necessary to impart a sense of corporate social responsibility with regard to contemporary commerce. The ethical approaches of purpose, principle and consequence are integral components of business social perfo...
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Physician Assisted Suicide Terminally Ill Patients
1,485 wordsKathleen M. Suicide Physician-Assisted Suicide Kathleen M. Foley, author of Competent Care for the Dying Instead of Physician-Assisted Suicide, believes doctors should develop treatments for the physical and psychological problems of dying patients rather than helping them commit suicide. Available data suggests most physicians do not receive training in the care of dying patients. Dying patients experience physical symptoms such as pain, psychological problems such as anxiety and depression and...
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Physician Assisted Suicide Terminally Ill Patients
1,424 wordsKathleen M. Foley, author of Competent Care for the Dying Instead of Physician-Assisted Suicide, believes doctors should develop treatments for the physical and psychological problems of dying patients rather than helping them commit suicide. Available data suggests most physicians do not receive training in the care of dying patients. Dying patients experience physical symptoms such as pain, psychological problems such as anxiety and depression and existential distress (described as the experie...
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Soup Kitchens Morally Acceptable
2,078 wordsIs Moral Egoism Correct? Moral Egoism states that one never does wrong if one does whats in ones own self-interest; its always morally acceptable to just look out for number one (Barcalow, 295). I feel that I should do what is in my own self-interest for the most part, but not for everything, thus making moral egoism incorrect. When many people take a look at the definition of moral egoism, they may first think it is correct. People say, of course I am going to do something if it benefits me. Th...
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Rape Or Incest Cases Of Rape
816 wordsPro-Choice is the Right Choice The issue of abortion is one of the most controversial issues discussed in our nation today. In 1996, roughly 1. 37 million abortions took place (Guttmacher 1). It remains so controversial due to all the different viewpoints that are argued and discussed among people in our society. The 1973 decision of the Roe vs. Wade case, concerning abortion, had a huge impact among people s beliefs. Many individuals consider themselves pro-life and are completely against abort...
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Clockwork Orange Morally Acceptable
1,861 wordsGoodness Calculated Captivity Calculated Captivation Goodness comes from within, 6655321. Goodness is something to be chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man. In Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange, a sadistic adolescent of the not-so-distant future is rehabilitated of his violent nature by a special conditioning treatment. This fifteen year-old hoodlum Alex McDowell is cured of his savage activities but when released back into a still violent society, he is a misfit. Anthony Burge...
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Soft Core Pornography Morally Acceptable
3,267 wordsWhen asked off the bat whether pornography is morally acceptable, I instinctively responded with a stern No It is such a taboo subject that I not only wanted to stay away from it, but I also wanted to answer the way everybody else would answer. After long researching and thorough discussions with my group, I have not only found more reasons why pornography is bad, but also many reasons why it is good. I was surprised as to find good reasons as to why pornography might be good, but I did. With th...
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