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C S Lewis And Natural Law
2,349 words... (Abolition 46) The Magician's Nephew, the tale of the creation of Narnia, gives two characters who exemplify the Controllers -- Jadis and Uncle AndrewKetterley. Both claimed to be above Natural Law; they had "a high and lonely destiny. " Jadis was a monarch and Uncle Andrew was a magician, but both were strongly suggestive of modern science gone wrong. They bothwell that common rules are fine for common people, but that singular great people must be free-to experiment without limits in searc...
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Duty And Reason As The Ultimate Principle Kant
1,385 wordsDuty and Reason as the Ultimate Principle: Kant Kant claims that only actions from duty have moral worth. In other words, actions from motives other than duty deserve no positive moral evaluation. I like and agree with Kant's view because I believe that a good will makes a good person. I also believe we have all been put on this earth to do our duty. We should do our duty just for duty alone; we should not be concerned about anything else. I will begin by discussing Kant's distinction between wh...
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Moral Character Daily Basis
474 wordsJust like the Scripture passage states: "There are in the end three things that last - faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love. " These three ideals are the key to a Christian understanding of morality because they are ultimately the basis of morality. Morality might seem like a simple code of ethics based on the faith, hope and love we hold for ourselves and for each other. But in addition, it involves the faith, hope and love we hold for God. Our hope and faith that our morally...
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God Is All Powerful Problem Of Evil
950 wordsPROBLEM OF EVIL One of the major arguments proposed against the existence of God in contemporary western philosophy is the problem of evil. It is based upon the inability to reconcile the magnitude of evil in the world with the all-loving nature of God. John Hick describes the problem from the perspective of its proponent, If God is perfectly loving, God must wish to abolish all evil; and if God is all-powerful, God must be able to abolish all evil. But evil exists; therefore God cannot be both ...
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Machiavelli Morally Good
1,197 wordsThe Right Thing To Do, Is not Always The Right Thing To Do Some say that if one completes his / her studies at the University level without analyzing and understanding Machiavelli? s work and theories, then that person has not fully utilized the? college experience. ? Machiavelli, by some, is said to be one of the greatest theorists and philosophers of all time. Most critics argue, ? ? that he (Machiavelli) is cynical- that he thinks the worst of people rather than the best of them. ? It is very...
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Machiavelli Ancient Roman
298 wordsMachiavelli-Restoring Ancient Roman Civic Virtue Essay, Research Machiavelli-Restoring Ancient Roman Civic Virtue MACHIAVELLI When reading and interpreting Machiavelli? s, The Prince and his Discourses, one must consider the time and motive for Machiavelli? s words. He is trying to explain how to be an effective and great leader, while trying to restore Roman ancient virtue. Machiavelli believes that one may use whatever means necessary in order to restore ancient Roman virtue, and displays thes...
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