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    the universities’ role towards society. The interference of political, moral, and ethical views during the course of education affects a student’s beliefs and ideologies. Fish believes that the techniques of evaluating ideologies is what a student should be learning, rather than building a belief on a teacher’s point of view for example. Fish’s solution was not abandoning political issues in class, but adapting to the issues on an academic hand rather than always evaluating opinions overheard everywhere

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    mull over systemic change. Moral office, investigated in this study as moral choice making, is a mind boggling perspective of school administration. In a design corresponding to the quantitative work of Langlois, Lapointe, Valois, and de Leeuw (2014), we utilized Starratt 's (2005) structure for good instructive administration to dissect information on moral choice making forms among Canadian school principals. This gave a portrayal of some of the day by day, or normal, moral difficulties confronting

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    I often associate the word “intellectual” with a very positive and benevolent connotation, but Real Genius has proven to me that being an intellectual does not automatically preclude someone from moral scrutiny. This 1985 movie captures an alternative view of the “geek” society and breaks stereotypes with the development of very three dimensional characters. But Real Genius is much more than just a movie that redefines academics, it is also a film that heavily stresses the importance of morality

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    Trash Hamburgers! The investigation of moral issues brought upon nanotechnology By Daniel Lerma Through history humans have always tried to innovate and create new technologies to move society onwards. In recent years breakthroughs in nanotechnology has slowly introduced ideas that could change everyone’s way of life. Think about a world where products are manufactured molecule by molecule and garbage can be broken down to dust. Humans whose wounds could be healed

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    may not have violated his legal rights, his moral rights were clearly violated on several occasions. The greatest moral issue on the NY Med segment was filming and then releasing the last moments of Mr. Chanko’s life without his permission, nor his families permission. Mr. Chanko has, as all do, a right to privacy during any medical incident. The fact that his care team allowed individuals who were not there to make him better is a clear error in moral judgment. Furthermore, the idea that they then

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    are categorized into either spontaneous, a natural miscarriage; induced or intentional, which is premeditated and for any reason; or therapeutic, which albeit intentional, its sole purpose is to save the mother’s life. It seems however that moral conflicts on issue mainly arise when discussing induced abortions. In general, people universally agree it is morally wrong to kill an innocent person and in some people’s eyes induced abortions are the intentional killings of innocent persons, thus making

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    (sections 3.1, 3.1.1, 3.1.2), SF and NP models indicate Lakoff’s prediction about conservatives and progressives way of thinking. Lakoff predicts that if political actors of both parties adopt either SF or NP moral standpoint, accordingly this will affect the politicians’ framing of ideas, issues and will shape the policy they adopt. For Lakoff (1996) the SF and the NP models represent internalized cognitive way of thinking and ultimately acting. They are cognitive models that indicate separate ideological

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    elements for survival: food, water, shelter, and fire. There are portions of the world that have difficulty finding some or all of these four basic elements for survival. The United States is the top affluent country in the world, which often creates issues regarding morality. America is known as the “land of opportunities” where someone could attain a job to afford housing, food, warmth, and so on for their families and themselves. The fact that Americans are able to afford to supply themselves

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    Famine On Famine

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    sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it. It requires us only to prevent what is bad, and not to promote what is good, and it requires this of us only when we can do it without sacrificing anything that is, from the moral point of view, comparably important. The principle takes no account of proximity or distance. As well it makes no distinctions between cases where I am the only person who could possibly do anything about it. From the moral point of view,

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    Relativism is the philosophical viewpoint that there are no actions that are innately immoral or moral, and that the morality of actions must be measured against the individual circumstances, from a multitude of perspectives that include the actor as well as the myriad consequences (and victims, potentially) of such an action. After reading Lenn Goodman's "Some moral minima", it becomes fairly apparent that Goodman is far from a relativist. After a lengthy, meandering introduction in which the author

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