In “The Moral Equivalent of War‚” William James explores the reasons behind the existence of war. A self-identifying pacifist‚ he proposes an alternative solution: “[an enlistment] against Nature‚” (1291)‚ which retains the virtues of a war but prevents its pains and sufferings. James also compares the differing perspectives of utopias: militarism and pacifism while identifying flaws in each of them. Militarism perceives war as a preservation technique for ideals‚ patriotism‚ courage‚ and other merit
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Moral issue(s) in the Alchemist’s case The company needed to have competent distributor teams that would work according to the company’s requirements. The distributor teams that would customer-centric‚ brand aligned as well as efficient in the representation of the brand in the market. The challenge is equipping of the sales representatives of the distributors in areas that are diverse or geographically widespread and have people who speak different languages. The issue is equipping of the distributor
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In Kant’s Foundation for the Metaphysics of Morals‚ he acknowledges the recommendation from the earlier that whatever instrument is found in man‚ it must be the most fitting instrument for it. Accordingly‚ it can’t be that joy is the most astounding characteristic since reason is not favorable for it. Nature would have constrained man’s reason from the domain of satisfaction and depended man’s bliss to impulse alone. Rather‚ Kant brings up that reason in the domain of satisfaction really prompts
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The Moral Climate‚ is a magazine article written by Carl Safina and published by Orion Magazine. Safina opens his article boldly getting to the point by saying‚ “What most distresses me is the thirty years we’ve wasted by asking people to live sustainably.” (1). This statement refers to his disappointment with society‚ pertaining to the issues with our climate. How society has become blinded as to what is important. This article shoots for the attention of environmentalist and the ordinary public
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Chelsea Long Philosophy 100-005 Prompt 2 Final Essay Even though they were separated by thousands of years‚ hundreds of miles‚ and different cultures‚ the philosophical views of Friedrich Nietzsche and Plato can be examined and weighed against each other in many different ways. Friedrich Nietzsche‚ born in 1844‚ was a German philosopher whose main goal was to erect a new image for the people and to create a free spirit in them. Plato‚ born in 427 B.C.‚ was a Greek philosopher whose main goal
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Freud and Nietzsche on Human Nature and Society After intensive analyzation of reading Civilization and It’s Discontents by Sigmund Freud and Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche‚ I feel as if both Freud and Nietzsche offered virtually identical views of human nature and of the society in which they lived. In my paper I intend to prove how this is so. The Freudian view of humanity is quite pessimistic. According to his ideology‚ people act only in order to satisfy their needs
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independent. We see ourselves this way because are able to make choices out of our own volition according to our own morals and values. But these morals and values have the same underlying framework. We define ourselves on the grounds of what we believe good and evil to be. It’s the values that we assign to these categories‚ Nietzsche says‚ that is detrimental to our being. Nietzsche believes that these are false concepts that we that prevent us from being who we are. Freud has a psychological understanding
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right‚ wrong‚ and the basic belief of morals but what if these morals were simply a figment of imagination created by a single human and simply accepted? People around the world make decisions according to their beliefs and morals every day. Philosophers since the beginning of time have attempted to prove or disprove the existence of natural law which is what morals are based on. Some of the most significant philosophers to the topic are Aquinas and Nietzsche who specify the two sides of the argument
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In late 2015‚ Mr. Steven Pinker published an editorial with the Boston Globe titled‚ “The moral imperative to bioethics”‚ which concerned me quite a bit. Mr. Pinker’s editorial was over the new technique of CRISPR-Cas9. This technique allows one‚ relatively cheaply and easily‚ to go through a genome‚ target certain undesirable genetic sequences‚ cut those sequences out‚ and implant a new genetic sequence of ones choosing. While this sounds amazing at first‚ and something that Mr. Pinker wants
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Hercules Through the Eyes of Nietzsche What is Art? This has been the question of many generations‚ and because Art is ever changing‚ and perceived in many ways‚ it will inevitably be a question in the back of our minds for years to come. Frederick Nietzsche may very well be the face of who really knows what art is‚ and boy did he know his stuff. Nietzsche expounds upon what the Greeks were just surfacing upon decades ago; The Greek Tragedy. What is so significant about tragedy you may ask; well
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