Moral realism

I believe that schools should try to produce the best people they can. Many people argue that morals should be taught at home, but that isn't good enough. Some say that good citizens make good people, but I say that that isn't the case. Many

club or SAT preparatory class. There is no doubt that community service can bring essential benefits in helping students develop their moral value and future interest, and it should be mandatory because some students attempt to utilize community service as a tool for their own profit without the school supervision. Volunteerism enables students to gain the moral lesson that is vital to their life and develop their future interest. According to source 2, “community service teaches us through experience

on John Arthur’s idea of “just deserts” from his article entitled Famine relief and the Ideal Moral Code. Why we should aid famine victims Singer’s main argument in Famine, Affluence, and Morality, is that the manner in which we conduct ourselves morally needs to change. The author holds that if it is within our power to prevent a bad event from taking place without sacrificing anything else of moral importance, or without causing something equally bad to happen, then we are morally obligated to

is easily embarrassed. Her morals are strong, and she maintains her character through the story. She is a religious person and urges others to follow jesus. But despite this she has to prostitute herself to support Marmeladov's drinking problem, he is her father. Raskolnikov thinks that this makes her morally dirty in his eyes, but she does prove throughout the book that what she did, even if it is against her god, was only out of the love of her family, making her morals sound and showing her strength

perhaps combined both his philosophical ideas and his writing talent, was one in which he attempted to make himself into a morally impeccable human. After reading the work he published regarding this pursuit, I was assigned to pick one of the thirteen moral good Franklin identified and myself try to embody one. My task was to perfect a single trait within myself, one that Franklin likewise tried to perfect. Out of Franklin’s thirteen virtues, I chose the virtue of silence to perfect within myself. Over

draws the reader's attention to the difference between fictional and moral truth, or the truth as it happened versus the truth as it is interpreted. Fictionality is when the line between fact and fiction is purposely blurred by the author in order to illuminate a truth for the reader; it is when the author alters reality to create a more fitting stage for the story. The truth that is revealed through the fictionality tends to be a moral truth, such as a life lesson or universal certitude. Throughout this

due to our own personal moral duty to ourselves and our fellow man. In this essay, Thoreau states, at least three things that he wants the reader to do, and they are: take moral responsibility for doing the right thing despite the government wishes, avoid association with the government, and to disobey unjust laws. As citizens, we have a moral responsibility to not only do the right thing for ourselves, but for the others around us. Therefore, if we secede our morals to the state, even though

A short scene from Fantasia begins with a man creating a butterfly from thin air. From previous experience, hidden in the deep recesses of the human brain’s warehouse, it can be assumed that this man is a wizard. A few seconds later a cartoon mouse appears that can be assumed to be Mickey Mouse. After the wizard creates a beautiful butterfly he sets his hat down, which Mickey picks up and tries to use. From the visual elements in this scene, it can be gathered that Mickey Mouse is a thief that disregards

Peter Singer makes the suggestion that we are obligated to give as much as possible to charity. Obligatory acts are acts that are required and would be wrong to not do. I would have to disagree with Singer's opinion here because there are times when  people are going to be unable to give to charity and there are going to be people that choose not to give to charity. For example, say there is a woman who is living in poverty and is in need of financial assistance. It would be hard for the woman to

and Peter Singer have different views when it comes to Famine Relief and the “Ideal Moral Code”. Both theories are intuitive; yet clash heads at the idea of an opinion other than their own. They essentially both argue for what is our true duty. Peter Singer defends that we “ought to prevent evil whenever we can do so without sacrificing something of comparable moral significance (Famine Relief and the Ideal Moral Code pg. 813)”. He believes that we should donate at least half of our earnings to