The question of morality proves to be a complex interrogatory. Should I be moral? If I should be‚ then why? Why is morality important to society? An assumption can be made that morals derive from a purely religious perspective or the Golden Rule approach. We are told that it is right to be moral. This is an ineffective answer‚ since it does not apply to someone outside the moral circle This in mind‚ there is really no way to prove this too a person who wants to know why he/she
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Macbeth carries the burden of his deeds on his shoulders‚ causing him to lose a terribly large amount of peace and rest in his life. When Macbeth goes to kill Duncan‚ he hears voices in his conscience telling him‚ “Still it cried sleep no more! to all the house./ Glamis hath murdered sleep and therefore/ Cawdor / Shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more” (Shakespeare‚ 2.2.54-57). Macbeth gets a warning in his mind that is trying to get
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to catch the nearest way". She overpowers her own conscience‚ which enables her to later‚ guide Macbeth into acting upon their plans. At first Lady Macbeth succeeds in persuading her husband‚ but later Macbeth wavers in his decision. Lady Macbeth is quick to chasten her husband in response to his uncertainty‚ and she manipulates him by questioning his manhood and his love for her. She helps Macbeth to ’realize’ that despite what his conscience was saying; killing Duncan was the first and foremost
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human‚” hence gaining our own knowledge‚ intellect‚ independence and freedom by being dictate by our very own “humanistic conscience” that helps and guides us to discern right from wrong and to justify what’s is just and unjust. Just may be the world will be a much better place if we learn to be autonomously obedient based on humanistic discipline‚ whilst being conscience wise in decision making and being bold enough to face the outcome whether it is good or bad. To be control
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sliver of his conscience and fear of fate in the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. When Dorian believes‚ thanks to the devilish Henry Wotton‚ that physical beauty and pleasures are the key to true happiness‚ he begins on his horrid journey. The flawed logic keeps Henry content and happy and seems to do the same for Dorian. Although‚ as Dorian does evil with credit to his newfound logic‚ his evil deeds paired with everlasting youth and a morphing self-portrait keep his conscience alive and
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through Macbeth’s mind‚ to kill Duncan or not to kill‚ that is the question. During the period in which his conscience is still intact‚ the classic scene of the angel and the devil plagues Macbeth. On one shoulder Macbeth has the white angel‚ his conscience‚ and on the opposite sits the red devil‚ represented by the equivocations of the Weird Sisters and Lady Macbeth’s trickery. His conscience shows him all the reasons why he should not kill Duncan. Duncan is a charismatic king and has ruled Scotland
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Arendt examines then that it was Eichmann’s conscience that motivated him to continue deporting Jews and ignore Himmler’s order‚ that to him‚ was illegal. This leads right to Arendt’s point‚ the rise of totalitarian power created a moral inversion in society. It is difficult to see right from wrong or experience guilt when a complete shift in the way of thinking occurs. “And just as the law in civilized countries assumes that the voice of conscience tells everybody ‘Thou shalt not kill‚’ even though
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The Bible‚ of course‚ is an inspiration for this New England heir of the puritans. There is also a suggestion that Thoreau developed the idea of a higher law with superior claims on conscience from his reading of Sophocles’ play Antigone‚ in which the heroine resists the law of the land and obeys the command of the gods to bury her traitorous brother in opposition to the authority of the state (Jaskoski 1). Thoreau also quotes Confucius
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the heroism‚ but narrator kicked Fry and ran away‚ this behavior in world their pursuit is cowardly acts. Evident‚ the war just can bring selfish keep alive is top thought in everyone’s mind‚ there is no positive spirit in the war. A soldier’s conscience has not erased by war. For example‚ in chapter 6‚ in
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a) Examine arguments which suggest that our moral intuitions provide evidence for the existence of God. Morality is about understanding the difference between the right and wrong action in a situation. People may argue that morality exists because God made it therefore morality depends on God or that there isn’t any point in being moral unless God exists. Moral arguments try to show that nothing else but God’s existence accounts for our awareness of morality. Immanuel Kant’s moral arguments
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