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    Introduction: It is hard, and almost impossible to pinpoint a single human universal on ethics and morality. Ethics among different cultures is so vast, even though every culture does have a standard for ethics which they live by. Although ethics is a broad human universal, there is no specific universal ethic. Each world religion holds a different ethic as their highest ethic; it is always a case by case basis. Theory: Ethics serve as an adaptive function in modern environment, more than ever

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    Kant and the Morality of Anger

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    Kant and the Morality of Anger Introduction This essay does not comprise a defence of retributive punishment, neither does it imply a rejection of deterrent punishment. The writer suggests that one possible reason for the tendency to advocate punishment of offenders with ever increasing severity can be discovered in the concept of the 'morality of anger'. It is this explanation of the phenomenon that forms the principal burden of the arguments used in this essay. The salient characteristics

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    group of humans were removed from society and forced to rely on their animalistic instincts to survive. Would they abandon the morality that has been ingrained into them since birth? In the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding, this very topic is exhibited as a group of young boys are stranded on an island. As the book progresses, the boys are forced to abandon all morality, leaving them as barbarians who rely on murder as a form of not only survival, but also to solve seemingly trivial matters

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    The article I decided to do the writing assignment on was the Morality of Euthanasia, author James Rachel’s. Rachels gave great points on his arguments within the article. In his article "The Morality of Euthanasia", Rachel’s utilizes what he calls the contention from benevolence. in which one could end the agony of another being as well as the kind from which we ourselves would draw back, about which we would decline to peruse or envision. I trust this is the thing that Rachels is contending, though

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    Kant's Views on Morality

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    Morality has been a subject of many philosophical discussions that has prompted varied responses from different philosophers. One of the most famous approaches to morality is that of Immanuel Kant in his writing Groundwork of Metaphysics of Morals. Kant in this work argues that the reason for doing a particular action or the drive to do good things is a fundamental basis of defining moral quality in a person. To him, an action could be considered morally right only if the motivation behind doing

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    Marcus Aurelius, a scholar and Emperor of Rome once said, “waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.” Now the question arises what makes a human being ‘good’? The simple answer to this is morality. From the day a child starts to speak or understand, parents get in the habit of teaching their child the difference between right and wrong, good and bad, ethical and unethical. Why is this so? One answer to this is that so a child can understand the difference between what is valid

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    differentiated the morality between Roma, Greece and Christian. He also found that the nature of Roma and Greece was brutal and violent. Nietzsche though the Greek was be adept in forget. They did not beautify their brutal and violent nature. They just chose to forget about it and they believed that was native. However, the northern races also had the same nature, but The Christian just made the nature more civilized. They beautified their nature as the necessity to be rescued. The Christian morality believed

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    Definitions: Morality: According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy morality the syntactic definition of morality is a code of conduct that, given specified conditions, would be put forward by all rational persons. Our operational of morality is: A code of conduct by rational persons that adheres to the objective values of a society at a given point in time with or without surveillance. Argument 1 The argument that all marijuana use and possession is moral is false, some possession and

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    argue for the view that Morality does depend on religion due to the following: God 's existence, the divine theory, commandments, beliefs and etc. From bibles and scriptures has stated that without God we wouldn 't follow from what 's right and wrong beliefs. Taking such actions to commit and follow and that 's how we would know and develop our moral behavior. In a philosophic term, of morality is the attempt to achieve a systematic understanding of the nature of morality and what it requires of

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    In the world of philosophy, the ideas of both morality and justice have their place amongst the ideas and theories that philosophers hold. The term “morality”, which is typically used to describe a code of conduct put in place by society with regard to having good character and doing the “right” thing as opposed to doing the “wrong” thing. The idea of morality is unique in that the ways that society places such an importance on in distinguishing between right and wrong, such as the law or etiquette

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