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Ethics In Frankenstein And Brave New World
1,761 wordsEthics in "Frankenstein" and "Brave New World" For most of human history, the ethical considerations of scientific inquiry would have been a moot point. Outside of the Bible and mythology, there was no thought of creating life from inert matter because scientists would not have felt it was possible to do so. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, however, in the wake of landmark discoveries in the fields of chemistry, biology, and genetics, the possibility of scientific tampering with the hu...
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Stem Cell Research Millions Of People
1,552 wordsConflict between Research and Ethics In United States, many governmental initiatives, regarding the development of science, are still affected by the considerations of public morality, which is based on obscure Christian dogma. One of the best examples of it is George W. Bush vetoing the bill, which would allow Federal financing for the stem cell research. The President believes that obtaining the genetic material for the research, from the dead embryos, is unethical. This is despite the fact th...
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Social And Scientific Progress
417 wordsSocial and Scientific Progress It goes without saying that development of science has played an important role in our perception of the reality. But there is a question: how does the progress influences the world around us? Does it changes the situation for better or worsens it? There is always some contradiction between ethics and science or responsibility of scientists. Rappaccini's Daughter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is one of the most complex and difficult short stories. Nathaniel Hawt...
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Form Of Energy Heinrich Himmler
1,759 words... a better understanding of how to increase the effectiveness of our agricultural practices, for example, we would have to study meteorology, because agricultural calendar depends on the annual change of climatic conditions, which, in its turn, depends on variety of cosmic factors, such as the rate of Solar activity etc. Natural Philosophy defines Earth as the living organism, which corresponds to magical vision of the world. This is why we can say that the development of Natural Philosophy ca...
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Human Cloning Technology Bible Thumper
2,546 wordsArgumentative Paper (1) In United States, many governmental initiatives, regarding the development of science, are still affected by considerations of conventional morality, which are based on obscure Christian dogma. One of the best examples of it is George W. Bush vetoing the bill, which would allow Federal financing for the human cloning research program. Republican Bible-thumper's in the Congress greeted this news with the thunderous applause, as it was seen on TV. Just like in time of Galil...
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Science Fiction Genetic Engineering Of Humans
2,450 wordsScience Fiction: Genetic Engineering of Humans (1) The pace scientific progress in twentieth century resulted in fact that nowadays, the obtained empirical knowledge, often cannot be thought of outside of moral context. The discovery of DNA and its role in predetermining the physical and mental properties of a human being, allowed us to realize that now it is only the matter of time, before we are going to be able to talk about genetic engineering, as the method of improving biological quality o...
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Tao Te Ching People In Western
2,165 wordsThe Tao The Taoism can hardly be referred to as religion, in the classical sense of this word. This is because it is being largely based not on faith, but on philosophical rationale, which is the reason why Taoism appeals to people who have their sense of logic, as the cornerstone, upon which their mental activity is based. The book Tao Te Ching, which was allegedly written by Lao Tsu, emphasizes the principle of Wu-wei as such that should define peoples existential mode. The semantic complicati...
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Sense Of Duty Majority Of People
2,082 wordsKant (1). It has been rightfully suggested that the philosophy of Immanuel Kant revolves around his unique understanding of notion of morality. According to philosopher, morality has universal properties, which cannot be discussed within the context of their practical utilization, because otherwise, morality becomes subjected to perceptional subjectivity. Kant believed that every individual is being psychologically divided between two realms that are essentially opposite the realm of pure ideas ...
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Sense Of This Word Organizational Behavior
1,657 words... a strong enough incentive, when it comes to motivating employees to perform their duties with utmost dedication. (3) It would not be an exaggeration to say that the model of bureaucracy is opposed to the scientific progress, as the driving force of social evolution. This is the main disadvantage, associated with this managing style. The bureaucrats are interested in maintaining status quo, because they associate it with stability, even when it is clear to them that the innovative methods of ...
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19 Th Century Passage To India
1,031 wordsPassage to India The end of the 19 th century was the time when scientific and cultural progress was being strongly associated with European geopolitical expansionism. The pace of this progress, at that time, was truly amazing. Therefore, it was only natural for the poets and writers of the era to view contemporary realities as the basis of their creativeness. Walt Whitman's poem Passage to India, written in 1871, proves the validity of this statement to the full extent, because it is essentiall...
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Harry Potter Political And Psychological Aspects
2,237 wordsHarry Potter: Political and Psychological Aspects (1) The phenomenon of Harry Potters popularity has been discussed in literary circles for a decade now, without majority of critics being able to define the very essence of such popularity. This is because, up until the time when Joanne Rowling made a fortune with the help of her literary character, only very few people considered childrens literature as such the carries a certain metaphysical message. The simplicity was thought to be the key for...
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Playing Video Games Cell Phones
2,269 wordsHow has Technology Impacted Parenting? (1) The fast pace of technological progress in recent years had a great affect on parenting, despite the fact that the process of childrens upbringing is traditionally associated with conservative values. We can even say that the concept of parenting is now being transformed to have an entirely new meaning. Children are becoming increasingly independent of their parents, because the realities of post-modern living result in situation when the notion of pare...
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Neo Classicism Future Society
649 wordsFuture Society (1) Our future society will be based on the principles of Intellectual-Socialism; as such, that incorporates the best aspects of National-Socialism and Libertarian Democracy. The political system of our society can be best referred to as Aristocratic Democracy. Citizens ability to gain social prominence will not correspond to their affiliation with a particular social class, but only to the degree of their racial purity and to the rate of their IQ. The judicial, legislative and ex...
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Laws Of Nature Good And Evil
2,560 wordsFinal Paper (1) Friedrich Nietzsche is being rightly referred to as one of the most progressive philosophers of 19 th century. He was the first thinker of high social standing, who had courage to publicly oppose Christian obscurity, as such that is counter-productive, in evolutionary sense of this word. Therefore, we can say that his intellectual contribution to cultural and scientific progress, with which we associate 20 th century, was indispensable. It will not be an exaggeration to suggest t...
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Renewable Energy Sources Sources Of Energy
1,741 words... from the Peak, Chris Never, who does not hold any illusions as to the fact that depletion of oil resources will dramatically change America, as we know it: The concept that global oil production will soon decline sharply - is fact, not theory. Regardless of which camp you fall into on the debate over peak oil, the effects of diminished oil supplies are hair-raising: the end of the suburbs as we know them, a boom in coal production and use, resulting in continued carbon emissions, global fuel...
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21 St Century Protestant Ethic
2,040 wordsSociology of Religion: Secularization Debate (1) The Secularization is best defined as the process of a religion beginning to exercise less and less influence of peoples existential mode, within a particular society, as time goes by. The reasons why it happens have been discussed from variety of different point of views. For example, in his famous work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber suggests that the objective properties of secularization derive out the steady pace ...
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2,154 wordsBiohazards. The mankind has been experiencing the technological boom since 60 of the last century. This boom touched upon almost all the spheres of our life. New machines and equipment were developed to make our life better. The development of science and technology caused new hazardous factors for the human beings which were unknown before. New hazardous materials with the perfect technological qualities influence the man hazardously; the nuclear power generation appeared to be the perfect powe...
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Blade Runner Ridley Scott
1,507 wordsThe Eyes Of An Owl Future has interested people since the early days of civilization until present time. The technological progress of the nineteenth century gave birth to such literary term as science fiction. Herbert Wells, one of the fathers of science fiction created the term robot. The rapid development of science in the twentieth century made possible the creation of robots and brought humankind close for the creation of the artificial intelligence. Contemporary science fiction literature ...
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Meditations On First Philosophy 19 Th Century
1,421 wordsFor some people Science is the supreme form of all knowledge During 17 - 18 centuries philosophers used to argue about whether our perception of the world truly represent surrounding reality. Rene Descartes, for example, in his Meditations on First Philosophy suggested that we can only use a logical approach when it comes to dealing with scientific matters, as our senses often mislead us to the wrong conclusions: I have seen round towers from afar, which closely observed seemed square, and colos...
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Mary Shelley Separate Spheres
2,442 wordsSocial changes in industrialised societies have brought new perspectives to the study of creativity, shifting from a focus on the aesthetic, the philosophical and the psychological, to an analysis of the significance of creativity in social and economic development. Romanticism favours heroic emotion and revolutionary fervour accompanied by a gothic taste for the fantastic and the macabre In 18 th century Europe the idea of creativity and invention underwent a dramatic change. During a period of...
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