Moral realism

Yaoxian Qu Chad Vance Introduction to Philosophy 12/04/2014 A Defense of Peter Singer’s Famine Relief Argument In his paper ‘Famine affluence and morality’, Peter Singer sought to provide response to a significant moral question: Is it morally permissible to not donate to famine? Singer argued that we are morally obligated to famine relief. I am deeply convinced by his argument. In this paper, I shall examine two significant objections to singer’s argument and explain why they would ultimately

Moral Ambiguity in Beloved Toni Morrison’s classic novel, Beloved, can be briefly summarized as a story with woman who is living in both the horrible aftermath of slavery, as well as her action of murdering her baby child in an attempt to save her from slavery. This story is based on the true story of Margaret Garner, who killed her own child and attempted to kill her other children instead of willfully letting them all return to lives of slavery. While slavery is today clearly classified as wrong

shades of gray within the spectrum of good and evil, and this “in between” often has a great effect on the work as a whole, revealing important themes and ideas. This gray area, when in relation to the actions and morals of a character, is called moral ambiguity. A character that embodies moral ambiguity is Victor Frankenstein. While many of Victor’s actions could leave him to be considered evil, there are many reasons why Victor is morally ambiguous and partially good, rather than purely evil. Examples

Jonathan Swift is a well known writer who wrote Gulliver 's Travels and many more lesser known works. "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift can be used to argue many things. The work itself is a pamphlet to that explains how one could go about the famine in Ireland. He suggests by his title that this will not be a over the top or extreme suggestion instead being modest and understandable. The most notable part of his work however is the obscenity of it as he describes in detail what the benefits

morally correct for a Prince to sacrifice the people before ever letting his own government collapse. Machiavelli continues to show where his morals lay with his investment in foreign affairs as he puts a lot more focus in external affairs than internal, in wanting to conquer smaller and weaker states around him. In terms of foreign affairs Machiavelli’s morals towards war is presented as once again the state over the people. When entering war he explains to the people that these difficult times are

American Medical Association that does not support intentional termination of the life of the patient or what is referred to as mercy killing. In her view, doctors only uphold their legal mandate by not engaging in the mercy killing and ignoring their moral duty to ensure the patient die without pain. The doctors only seek to avoid legal responsibility by letting the patient die instead of killing the patient. Alternatively, passive euthanasia allows the patient to die naturally while the active one requires

and D.C, under certain conditions. You must be 18 years or older, be a resident of the state, expected to die within 6 months, have orally asked for the procedure twice at least 15 days apart, and have the clearance of two specialist. Doctors have a moral responsibility to keep their patient alive, which is a part of the reason euthanasia is so controversial. It requires a doctor assisting in the death of a patient. People who disagree with the legalization of euthanasia see it as being self-assisted

In the short story “ The Cold Equations” Tom Godwin proves the central thematic tensions by one’s disobedience of legality,can and will affect, one’s aspect of morality. In the short story “The Cold equation” the setting takes place in a control room for these airplanes and space ships. Where later on the story introduces a EDS pilot who flies airplanes who later finds a young little girl who is a stowaway because of an accident that happened. Where the story explains how this EDS pilot meets

assumptions that Judith Thompson made in her paper. These assumptions are that a fetus is considered a human and that this argument will exclude the extreme circumstances such as rape. Therefore, this paper will focus solely on consensual sex and the morals of abortion following such intercourse, even in the case of dangers to the mothers’ life. The first premise to the conclusion is that the worst part of death is the ultimate loss of future possible contributions to

age, it is a standard to have morals and values that reflect on what you should show on a daily basis. Well, in Horton Foote’s screenplay based on Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird, many people do not have “standard” morals that you would find in the modern 21st century. However, there is some hope. Atticus, a lawyer, and father of the main characters, Scout and Jem, has taught them right from wrong. It is important to Atticus that Scout and Jem have correct morals. This is a reoccurring thing and