role of education is to teach facts‚ not morals.” Certainly‚ teachers have a long list of responsibilities every day. The most important one of course is enriching the minds of our children. A large amount of their time is spent with teachers throughout the week and they become one of children’s biggest influences. Sure‚ their major responsibility is to teach them reading‚ writing and arithmetic‚ they also have an obligation to encourage the right morals as well. In many cases teachers become
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The way I interpret the four approaches to moral differences are as follows: Soft Universalism is where a person or people have certain morals they loosely base their actions/lifestyle on‚ but they don’t have any qualms with straying from them depending on the situation. I think this approach is more of a‚ coward’s way out‚ if you will. It basically means you don’t really have to stand by any morals whatsoever‚ because you can say you’re all for or all against something‚ until the situation arises
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Critical Summary Regan argues that there is a difference between moral disagreements and personal preference disagreements. He believes that disagreements in preferences do exist between people. Someone likes or prefers something and another person may not like it or may be preferring something else. Judging morality as in what is morally right and wrong is different from when judging personal preferences. A person does not need justification to what his/her personal preferences are‚ because there
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Case Study: A Call for Progress Synopsis: "A Call for Progress" describes the need and importance of telecommunication in today’s world. It helps many people in exploring different opportunities. Unfortunately‚ this industry is in the hands of state-run monopolies who are inefficient in this sector with a staff which is poorly motivated. However‚ the introduction of cell phone has enabled the consumers to avoid the bane of landline service. As there has been an increase in the means to communicate
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In today’s modern world‚ technological progress is important for countries to develop and improve for the benefit of mankind. It is undeniable that technological progress has contributed greatly to the development of countries across the world. On the other hand‚ technological progress has also caused ecological imbalance and ruin the environment in today’s world. Due to vast development of land and road constructions‚ many forests has been destroyed and replaced by concrete jungles. Construction
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related to Moral Hazard? Moral Hazard occurs ｫwhen a party insulated from risk behaves differently than it would behave if it were fully exposed to the riskｻ. In that definition of moral hazard the idea of risk is very present‚ so we can easily see how this concept is related to the financial system and the banks. Indeed Moral hazard is the idea that banks could take unnecessary risks because they believe they池e too big to fail and would be bailed out in future crises. So moral hazard
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English 20M-Section 2 12 May 2011 My Progress as a Reader and Writer in English 20M If I had a time travel machine‚ I would love to go back to our class’s first meeting. It was such a memorable day. I was so nervous that my first piece of writing seemed less than mediocre as I reflected on what I had written that day. While being happy that my name was randomly chosen to be added to the class‚ I was very scared of this class. The last time I wrote an essay was two years ago‚ and before this class
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The Immorality of Abortion Religion‚ personal rights‚ or science normally fuels the debate on abortion. However abortion can be looked at philosophically and debated whether it is moral or immoral. In this paper I will argue that abortion is immoral because it deprives the zygote from any future life. In The Journal of Philosophy‚ Don Marquis argues in his essay‚ “Why Abortion is Immoral” that abortion is wrong because it deprives the fetus of a ‘future like ours’
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I. INTRODUCTION Election plays a very significant role in our lives. As the famous saying goes “No man is an island” we cannot but to belong to a community‚ we even belong to a family which is the basic unit of the community or society. Within the community in which we belong‚ in a broader sense‚ there has to be a leader who guides and direct his/her people. On the other hand‚ the people also have to choose a particular leader who is committed and competent enough or else there will be chaos and
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Our moral thought is not an innate and fixed property‚ but is a learnt attribute that changes in our lifetime with personal development. Personal development in turn‚ is dominated by cognitive development. And there are two main theories relating moral development with cognition: the first one is Piaget’s theory‚ and the second one is Kohlberg’s theory. The basic idea behind both theories is that our moral thought changes with cognitive development. What we are going to show next‚ is the relation
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