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    Moral Virtue

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    Aristotle‚ we get moral virtue as a result of habit and none of the moral virtues arise in us by nature‚ because nothing that exists by nature can form a habit contrary to its nature. Nature has no effect on how moral virtues arise in us. Instead‚ we receive nature when we adapt‚ and therefore are made perfect by habit. A good example Aristotle uses is that we have senses before we even know how to use them. Eventually we learn how to use them by exercising them everyday. Another good example is that

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    Moral Panics

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    Sociology 1A. Moral Panics According to Cohen‚ society is often subject to such instances and periods of moral panic; an occurrence which is characterised by ‘stylized and stereotypical’ representation by the mass media‚ and a tendency for those ‘in power’ (politicians‚ bishops‚ editors and so on) to man the ‘moral barricades’ and pronounce judgement. At times the object and nature of the panic may be considered ‘novel’‚ such as that concerning the ‘child killers’ of James Bulger in the

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    entire training of home‚ school‚ and the university was designed to instill [the] fear of God and reverence for the Church” into young people (27). William Bennett‚ in his book “The Book of Virtues‚” stresses the importance of moral education of youth. He describes how “good habits formed in youth make

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    moral decisions

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    Moral Decisions It is so easy to set back and judge others for their decisions but if the one judging puts their self in the other person’s situation it is not so easy to say what they would really do. In the two plays Antigone and Trifles‚ there are two characters‚ Antigone and Mrs. Peters‚ which are prominent due to their decision-making process. In these two plays‚ both Antigone and Mrs. Peters make very important decisions based on what is right or wrong. Their decisions are life-changing‚

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    Moral Education

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    Moral education can be given better by parents at home‚ than by schoolmasters and professors in schools and colleges. Parents have numberless opportunities of guiding their children by pre¬cept and example‚ opportunities denied to the teacher. Who generally meets his pupils in large classes‚ and seldom has the means of becoming intimately acquainted with their several char¬acters and the faults‚ other than intellectual faults‚ to which each of them is particularly prone. The first point of importance

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    Moral Dilemmas

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    Article Summary and Reflection Moral Dilemmas‚ Moral Strategies‚ and the Transformation of Gender Lessons from Two Generations of Work and Family Change Women seek personal development by caring for others and men care for others by sharing the rewards of independent achievement are the traditional social norm in the 20th century. In the 21st century‚ people started to question whether women and men should really be separated into two distinct‚ opposed and unchanging moral categories. Women and men now

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    Moral rights in Canadian copyright law are protected under the Copyright Act of Canada and include an author’s right to attribution‚ integrity and association of a work. Moral rights are to be distinguished from economic rights; moral rights essentially being derived from the reflection of the author’s personality in his or her work‚ whereas economic rights grant an author the ability to benefit economically from their work. An author of a work retains moral rights for the length of the copyright

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    Results From A Moral Compass Ryan Smithson‚ an average teenage kid living in East Greenbush‚ New York ‚ attending Columbia High School. Ryan was your average teenage‚ punk not understanding life until the day his moral compass sets in. The conversation on page 5 shows the first time Ryan heard about 9/11. “ A plane crashed into the World Trade Center” “What?”‚ says Ryan That sucks”‚ then the conversation picking back up and we talked about sex or drugs something equally as interesting. This

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    Throughout the links of time‚ there have been various opinions about how the world strategizes the works of execution. The act of execution is known to be inhumane‚ whether it is justified as right or wrong. There are many cases of crime that have taken on the option of capital punishment. One case in particular is the Clutter family case which is deeply stretched and analyzed in Truman Capote’s book In Cold Blood. The novel is known as a masterpiece concealed with agonizing horror and cruelty that

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    Moral Realism

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    Moral Realism In this paper‚ I examine the connection between judgments of fact and moral judgments in an attempt to discern whether moral judgments are simply a subset of judgments of fact. I will look mostly at an argument posed by many moral realists that takes moral facts to be “supervenient natural facts which are independent of our theorizing about them”1 and in which moral judgments are determined by objective facts which relate to human flourishing or pleasure and pain. I will also‚ though

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