Assessing Moral Values Lillie Nephew PHI 310: Critical Thinking October 03‚ 2014 Instructor: Dr. Steve Wyre Assessing Moral Values Question One Is there anything wrong with pornography? Yes‚ I believe that pornography is totally wrong. With Christian parents and with a cultural background that teaches pornography as a sexual sin and a taboo within my cultural. This is a behavioral that leads to attitudes where male viewer are more aggressive and brings about other sexual desires
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Running head: VALUES AND MORAL DEVELOPMENT Values and Moral Development Catherine E. Truelove Grand Canyon University EED-570 May 19‚ 2011 Values and Moral Development The society in today’s world is constantly saying that the current youth has a lack in morals and values. (Helms‚ 1974) Many feel that this is happening due to the lack of religious rearing. While others believe that it steems from wearing down of family life‚ transormation of techonology‚ intricacy of ecological issues
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Teaching Moral Values in Schools Introduction Pornography! Premarital sex! Lying! Cheating! Drugs! Shoplifting! Stealing! High school pregnancies! What is wrong with all these things? Based on the values that are being taught in most schools to today’s children‚ nothing. Many teachers believe that students involved in these activities are just making bad choices out of the many choices they have. How can children know that George Washington was the father of their country but cannot tell the difference
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How values influence ethical and moral decisions Have you ever faced a difficult decision? Every day‚ we have to make decisions. Some of these decisions can be simple‚ but others can raise moral or ethical dilemmas. How does one go about making these moral or ethical decisions? People have value systems that can influence the moral or ethical decisions they make. This is clearly illustrated in the book Of Mice and Men‚ by John Steinbeck‚ through the main character‚ George Milton and his
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Macbeth’s Deterioration In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare‚ Macbeth is a dignified and appreciated character‚ but as he strives for power‚ his character deteriorates. Prior to Macbeth’s greed‚ he is a noble and well respected man‚ but as he descends into corruption‚ he starts to hallucinate. During the peak of his deterioration‚ Macbeth becomes emotionally detached. As his position improves‚ his character worsens. Many times throughout the play‚ before becoming power hungry‚ Macbeth
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Morals and Values Morals and values are part of a person behavior. There is not much difference between the two‚ but I do believe that they complement each other. As a result there was also a television show that stated morals and values challenges in the main characters such as The Cosby Show. The show gave viewers great examples on values and morals teaching me lesson as me and my family would watch the show once a week night together. When raising a child‚ one is taught values by their families
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Decline of Morals‚ Ethics‚ Values Raising the Standards Bobbi Yarbrough Western Governors University WGU Student ID# 000389221 Raising the Standards In recent years‚ it seems that America‚ has clearly become out of control when it comes to its young people committing crimes‚ the treatment of the elderly‚ defacing public property and all together out of control attitudes and non-accountability. There seems to have been more serious crimes committed by youth recently than there has
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* * * * What is a family? This seems like such a simple question‚ obviously a family is those who you are related to by biological definitions‚ but what about step parents‚ adoptive families and much more. The text of Beth LePoire defines families‚ “through their relatedness and their functions of nurturing and control” (27). To clarify the term relatedness LePoire includes biological‚ legal‚ and marriage like commitments. Nurturing LePoire defines as encouraging physical‚ social
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Running head: MORAL VALUE: THE DEATH PENALTY Moral Value: The Death Penalty Moral Value: The Death Penalty The death penalty is a moral value issue that has brought much controversy within society. It is morally justifiable to continue to practice the death penalty for convicted felons who are a threat to society. The death penalty is authorized in 37 states in the United States as well as by the U.S. Military. There are 13 states as well as the
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Lesson 1 I. Understanding of the Philosophies ESSENTIALISM 1. No‚ because they aim to transmit the traditional moral values and intellectual knowledge that students need to become model citizens. 2. No‚ the model student is the one who shows mastery of the basic skills and that one who lives by traditional moral values. 3. No‚ they teach subject matter even if students are not interested. They are more subject matter-oriented than student-centered. 4. No‚ they need long academic
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