Does The End Justify The Means? by Mortimer J. Adler‚ Ph.D. Does the end justify the means? Can it sometimes be right to use a bad means to achieve a good end? Don’t the conditions of human life require some shadiness and deceit to achieve security and success? First‚ let’s try to understand the sense in which the word "justifies" is used in the familiar statement that "the end justifies the means." After that we can consider the problem you raise about whether it is all right to employ
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“COMMON GOOD: The Law’s End” (A Commentary on Summa Theologica Question 90‚ Article 2) I. INTRODUCTION “Et ideo omnis lex ad bonum commune ordinatur (Therefore every law is ordained to the common good).” This is the second component on the definition of law by St. Thomas Aquinas in his Summa Theologica. For him‚ law “is nothing else than an ordinance of reason for the common good‚ made by him who has care of the community‚ and promulgated.” In this definition of St. Thomas‚ he provides
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Isaias Fret. Special Thanks to: Eva Böhm & MG Sound Studios‚ David Sattmann & Albertina Passage Club‚ Safieh Mazzari‚ Susanne Lackner‚ Daniela Stoppel & Henrick Dominici at The Imperial Hotel‚ Vienna and Vietha Luong. 01. CARNIVAL OF VENICE 07. ONLY THE LONELY 02. BLACK MOZART 03. HIGHER (R. Leslie‚ R. Ibanga) Produced by !llmind for Little Trouble Big China & Ryan Leslie for Les Is More LLC. Piano: Ryan Leslie. Additional Vocals: David Lee Bennet. Recorded by Ryan Leslie at Wall Street
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aesthetics. I will link how women having tattoos has become a form of resistance and expression which reign societal stigmas. Embodiment is a reflection of self through bodily self-consciousness. Life and culture as we know it is interpreted as a subjective experience to illusion. Emily Martins article‚ The End of the Body inspires the concept of “flexible bodies”‚ which applies to the Canadian society. Emily Martin addresses
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Shantel Watkins Intro to Business MG101-54 October 15‚ 2011 Lands Ends and Yahoo Case Discussion Questions 1. Compare the different reasons why Lands’ End and Yahoo! decided to expand internationally. Land’s End decided to expand globally or internationally because they wanted to increase their sales volume. Lands’ End also went global for international growth so as to increase their value as a company and gain credibility to their brand name on the other hand Yahoo! went globally because
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Minogue A.P. Language and Composition A October 3‚ 2013 Foster’s Rhetorical Strategies Master novelists craft their texts in such a way that style supports subject matter. In a passage from the beginning of Chapter XX in the novel Howards End by E.M. Forster‚ it is clear‚ due to Forster’s use of rhetorical strategies‚ that the power of love is underestimated. Forster uses diction‚ syntax‚ and tone to illustrate this concept of love. Forster first uses diction to reveal the concept
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The Role of Nurse Autonomy and Ethics in End-of-Life Care As a patient‚ one can expect a certain amount of rights and responsibilities when requesting medical treatment. These rights include the right to make decisions‚ have questions answered accordingly prior to those decisions being made‚ and the right to have your decisions upheld and respected by the medical professionals from which care is obtained. However‚ in some circumstances‚ medical professionals often find themselves being asked to
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Chapter 4 Recording Transactions and Adjustments and Performing Month-end and Year-end Closing Procedures Options A‚ B‚ and C. This chapter has three options depending upon your previous experience with a manual version systems project called the Systems Understanding Aid‚ written by the same authors as this computerized project. Option A is for students who have not used the Systems Understanding Aid before. Option B is for students who have completed the Systems Understanding Aid before
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which are of Shaun of the dead (2004) Hot Fuzz (2007) and The Worlds End (2013) or better known as the Cornetto trilogy directed by British director Edgar Wright. The first film in the cornetto trilogy is Shaun of the dead which tells the story of Shaun a 29 year old with no real ambition in life‚ much to the consternation of his friends‚ family‚ and fed-up girlfriend and With only a loyalty to his lazy best friend Edgar‚ a dead end job where his employees step on him‚ and the good old days‚ Shaun isn’t
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The Horrors of War R C Sherriff‚ the author of ‘Journey’s End’ was himself an officer in the East Surrey Regiment. His play is based upon his real-life experiences during the war‚ mirroring the way he and his comrades lived and fought and in a way re-living some of the war’s fantastic atmosphere of constant fear and incidents. Some very strong‚ positive characters and a hint of humor make this play successfully dramatic. In 1913‚ Europe was dominated by two power blocks. The Triple Alliance
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