If I subscribe to the deontological theory of thought‚ the answer is a resounding no! According to Geuras and Garofalo (2011)‚ “...deontological ethical theory is one which maintains that the ethics of an action does not depend on the consequences‚ but upon an important feature of the act itself. ...that feature is the obedience of an action to a
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present seemingly conflicting theses are those of Immanuel Kant and John Henry Newman. These great thinkers respectively maintain the opposing positions that the achievement of enlightenment is possible if one is allowed to utilize reason to explore a subject freely and publically and‚ conversely‚ that enlightenment can only be attained through careful analysis and a limitation of deference to human involvement. The Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant stated in his essay‚ An Answer to the Question:
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Natalie McNulty Outline the Key features of the Just War Theory The base of the Just War Theory starts with philosophers such as Aristotle and Cicero. Their first ideas of any war being ‘just’ involves the act of self-defence as the reason the war began. In their eyes‚ this reasoning made a war just. Ambrose of Milan and Augustine of Hippo developed this idea by coming up with a series of specifications for a war to be called ‘just’. They took this idea from the existing Roman ‘justum bellum’ and
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“Outline and evaluate social learning theory. In your answer‚ make comparisons with at least one other approach in psychology.” – 12 marks Social learning theory states that behaviour is acquired through the observational learning from role models where a person identifies with that person and imitates their behaviour. This means that the behaviour of a model can influence the behaviour of all those that model the person and is particularly common with childhood celebrity role models. When a person
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Introduction Consumers are becoming increasingly aware of the vast range of goods produced overseas and the often horrifying conditions under which workers labored to produce them. College students‚ activists‚ and certain scholars were quick to condemn “Sweatshops” and the multinational companies (MNC’s) that used them. However‚ this initial moral condemnation was based more on a natural sense of horror than moral reasoning‚ and critics often demonstrated a lack of sensitivity to both the underlying
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of study always leads to an important change in key ideas and/or ideologies” Oliver Bolt ------------------------------------------------- “It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods‚ which were applied or seemed to work in the past.” Mikhail Gorbachev Throughout the Cold War the Soviet Union went through numerous changes in leadership. Throughout the transformations one key element remained remarkably consistent as each
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The Change Process and Lewin’s Theory “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” - Mahatma Ghandi “If you want to truly understand something‚ try to change it.” - Kurt Lewin This learning activity is intended to provide learners with the opportunity to: • Describe the importance of change and appreciate its nature • Explain key factors in management of change • Discuss the source of resistance to change and the ways this resistance can be overcome • Play a leading role in initiating
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Attachment Theory Bowlby’s description for attachment theory as a means for significant affectionate attachment bonds‚ created between people‚ where many types of emotional distress and personal diagnoses can be formed when this bond is lacking and/or separation is present or loss occurs (Berry & Danquah‚ 2015; Bowlby‚ 1977). This significance is developed from infancy between infants and their primary caregivers. This time period and proper attachment is pivotal in the development of a person’s
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Kant: Explain and asses what you think to be the best argument Kant gives as his "Metaphysical Exposition of Space" (B37-40) that space cannot be either and actual entity (Newtonian concept) or any independent relation among real things (Leibnizian concepti be on). In other words‚ is he successful in arguing that space must be (at least) a form of intuition? Do any of his arguments further show that space must be ONLY a form of intuition and not ALSO something Newtonian or Leibnizian? In his
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SCOTT D. PAULIN The Idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk in the History and Theory of Film Music ( From early prescriptive writings on film-music practice to recent theoretical considerations of the status of music in cinema‚ the name of Richard Wagner has recurred with a regularity approaching inevitability. His sheer persistence as a figure in the literature has had a tendency to naturalize his position in the genealogy of cinema‚ making it difficult to assess the true nature and extent
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