Polygamy In todays society the idea of Polygamy is looked down upon. Polygamy is the act when a person has one or more spouses. Three objections that might be made are; first‚ Bentham’s utilitarian view‚ which says all people should maximize good/ pleasures‚ second‚ based on the Intuitionism view that says there is no “one” principle‚ and third‚ Russell’s utilitarian view that polygamy is nature. In this paper I will use a Virtue Ethics theory to defend the view that Polygamy is morally impermissible
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PhD Thesis 1998 Social‚ environmental and ethical factors in engineering design theory: a post-positivist approach Terence Love Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering University of Western Australia Social‚ environmental and ethical factors in engineering design theory: a post-positivist approach Terence Love B.A. (Hons) Engineering This thesis is presented for the degree of Doctor of
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one wife can be a deviant behavior depending on the country and a person’s beliefs. Polygamy is considered normal and lawful in many countries‚ but it is outlawed in the United States. The people that believe in it say that monogamy is not natural and it oppresses the social structure. Those against it‚ say it is a religious offense‚ or that it violates a spouse’s right to intimacy. The Mormon belief is that polygamy is holy and was practiced commonly in ancient times. Having more than one wife is
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HER Just like that I let him leave. I listened to the steadily fading sound of his car as he drove away. The motor grew fainter and fainter until it was finally drowned out by the children’s voices. At moments like that I felt that he accepted the freedom I had given him with too obvious relief. For a while now he could live without demands from his fussy children and his immature wife. I knew his routine so well. As he came to the bend in the road past our house he would look back at the ten
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Morality and Polygamy There are many people opposed to the concept of polygamous marriages. Polygamy is legal in some countries‚ such as Iran and Saudi Arabia‚ but illegal in others‚ such as the United States of America. Many have personal‚ religious‚ and/or cultural reasons to disagree with such practices‚ but is the practice of polygamy morally wrong‚ or is it acceptable? Some argue that it is wrong because of the negative consequences caused by such marriages; yet ignore successful polygamous
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The pain and suffering of children in polygamy
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women’s rights‚ equality‚ and also the influence of women in the development of Islamic tradition was discussed. The story of Muhammad and his various wives as well as Allah having three daughters show the influence of women and also the development of polygamy in Islamic beliefs. Muhammad had many wives due to him taking in women whom were unable to return to their homes and were in need of help due to their conversion to Islam and the lack of support that they had at home. He set various rules when it
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Polygamy Polygamy is defined as the condition or practice of having more than one spouse at a time. Though it has existed in many cultures throughout the world‚ polygamy is still very prevalent in most Islamic societies today. There are however several guidelines laid out in Islamic law governing the practice. Here we will examine the practice of polygamy in Islam and those laws which govern its legality. Muhammad did not introduce this practice‚ as has so often been wrongly alleged. The
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Polygamy Polygamy means a system of marriage where one person has more than one spouse. There are two basic forms of polygamy: polyandry‚ where one woman has more than one husband‚ and polygyny‚ where one man has more than one wife (Merriam Webster dictionary). Over the course of history and at present‚ polygyny is by far the most common form of polygamy‚ though there have been some documented reports of the practice of polyandry in isolated societies (Al-Krenaw‚ 1995). Polygyny appears to be the
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The truth of moral judgments is therefore relative depending on a particular group of people (Gowans‚ 2008). For example‚ when we discuss about the morality of polygamy‚ some people may argue that this is an acceptable moral practice in one society‚ whilst another will treat it as an immoral practice. It is‚ therefore‚ justified by one society but not another. This theory denies the existence of universal moral
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