Ethics Immanuel Kant is a German philosopher (1724-1804)‚ who had contributed on the arenas of philosophy‚ war‚ peace‚ science‚ beauty & geography. The word deontology is derived from the Greek word “Deon”‚ meaning duty and “tology” mean theory (Mackinnon & Fiala 2018). The base idea of Kant’s Deontological ethics is just to do our duty in any circumstances. Thus‚ a moral agent should act for the sake of good and motivated by obligation or duty‚ not for an ulterior motive. In Kant’s perspective‚ pleasure
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Bibliography: Beecher‚ Catharine E. Suggestions Respecting Improvements in Education‚ Presented to the Trustees of the Hartford Female Seminary‚ and Published at their Request. Hartford: Packard & Butler. Hudson and Skinner‚ Printers‚ 1829 Beecher‚ Catharine E Coker‚ Joe L. Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause: Southern White Evangelicals and the Prohibition Movement (Religion in the South)
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Dr. Death‚ Death machine‚ and murderer. These terms surround Dr. Jack Kevorkian and make his story menacing. Dr. Kevorkian‚ a physician in the 1990’s‚ used and advocated Physician-Assisted Suicide (PAS). PAS describes a physician knowledgeably giving a person medication to induce death with the person’s consent. Dr. Kevorkian would provide a device which attached to a person‚ allowing them to flip a switch that caused death. According to Consequentialist‚ Kevorkian committed a moral action
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J.M Coetzee’s "The Harms of Pornography" As the debate over pornography and its place in society grows hotter every day‚ several authors in particular shed a new light on the subject. Both their intuition and insight involving their beliefs can help the reader a great deal in seeing aspects of this debate that might have otherwise gone without the consideration that they so deserve. I believe that pornography is not only okay‚ but is allowing our country to take a step back and ask ourselves
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Synopsis: The short story “The Adventure of the Retired Colourman” by Arthur Conan Doyle is one of the stories of the Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. One of the characters named Sherlock Holmes in this story is investigating on a missing case. He is hired by an old retired man‚ Josiah Amberley‚ to investigate about his wife’s missing with a neighbor‚ Dr. Ray Ernest. Mr. Josiah also claims that two people are missing along with his cash and securities and therefore he wants to catch both of them. Holmes
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Aquaporin Water Channels Peter Agre Roderick MacKinnon All living matter is made up of cells. A single human being has as many as the stars in a galaxy‚ about one hundred thousand million. The various cells – e.g. muscle cells‚ kidney cells and nerve cells – act together in an intricate system in each one of us. Through pioneering discoveries concerning the water and ion channels of cells‚ this year’s Nobel Laureates Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon‚ have contributed to fundamental chemical knowledge
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“It is one thing to say that the suffering of a nonhuman animal‚ just as the suffering of us humans‚ is a bad thing in itself. It is another to say that we or the nonhuman animals have a right not to be caused to suffer or feel pain (MacKinnon‚ 382).” Most of the time‚ when people think of animals‚ they think of something furry‚ cuddly‚ feathery‚ slimy‚ and something with a beak or lots of sharp teeth. However‚ many people do not think of life‚ a beating heart‚ feelings and receptiveness to stimulants
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References: Barry‚ V. (1979). Moral issues in business. Belmont‚ Calif.: Wadsworth Pub. Co.‚ pp.361-365. MacKinnon‚ B. (1995). Ethics. Belmont‚ Calif.: Wadsworth Pub. Co. Parenethical.com‚ (2014). Equal Consideration for Animals « Introduction to Ethics. [online] Available at: http://parenethical.com/phil140sp11/2011/05/08/equal-consideration-for-animals/ [Accessed
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Throughout the chapter Mackinnon attempts to drive home the Just how dangerous pornography is to women. She states that Pornogophy "turns a woman into a thing to be acquired and used." And that it is primarily concerned "with whether women bleed"(199) She Martian that there is no legitimate distinction between rape and pornography‚ describing pornography as "sexual terrorism" () Implicit to virtually every aspect of Mackinnon’s arguments is the assumption that women are unmitigated‚ unequal perpetual
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1. The text "I’m donating my kidney to a stranger" is about a Scottish woman named Paula MacKinnon who wants to donate her kidney to a stranger. It all began when her mother needed a kidney transplant‚ and Paula decided to put herself forward as a potential donor‚ but their blood groups were not compatible‚ but that didn’t stop Paula‚ in fact she decided to give donate her kidney anyway‚ to someone who might need it. Paula is meet with skepticism from her parents and her friends‚ but Paula doesn’t
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