I. INTRODUCTION Election plays a very significant role in our lives. As the famous saying goes “No man is an island” we cannot but to belong to a community‚ we even belong to a family which is the basic unit of the community or society. Within the community in which we belong‚ in a broader sense‚ there has to be a leader who guides and direct his/her people. On the other hand‚ the people also have to choose a particular leader who is committed and competent enough or else there will be chaos and
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Moral Philosophy “Principles or rules that people use to decide what is right or wrong” 1.TELEOLOGY:- * An act is considered morally right or acceptable if it produces some desired result‚ i.e.‚ pleasure‚ knowledge‚ career growth‚ a self-interest‚ or utility. * Theory that derives duty from what is valuable as an end‚ in a manner diametrically opposed to deontological ethics. Teleological ethics holds that the basic standard of duty is the contribution that an action makes to the realization
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tragedy’s portrayal of good moral consciousness. From Hamlet’s first encounter with his father’s ghost‚ the audience becomes aware of Hamlet’s honorable motive to avenge the death of his father. Hamlet’s honorable desire “to right the wrong sets him apart from Fortinbras and Laertes‚ who desire merely to retaliate in kind for an injury done their fathers” (Palfrey Utter Jr. 141). This propelling aspiration is the force behind the following moral dilemmas that develop within
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Moral or Immoral Should people have the power to act as God? Should scientific studies be limited? Some people would say yes‚ while others would say no. There are countless debates that are constantly going on in the biological field. Two examples of these highly debated topics are stem cell research and euthanasia. In the U.S. today‚ many people are questioning the morality of stem cell research and euthanasia. Stem cells are cells that can renew themselves. They have the ability of making an
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MORAL RESPONSIBILITY Moral responsibility is directed not only at judgments concerning right or wrong. Sometimes‚ they are directed at determining whether a person or organization is morally responsible for having done something wrong. Here we are discussing ‘Moral Responsibilty’ as a term which is used to express that a person is to blame for an action. A person is morally responsible only for those acts and their foreseen injurious effects which
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Violence 68% say they hit someone because they were angry in the past year (46% did so at least twice)‚ and nearly half (47%) said they could get a gun if they wanted to (for males: 60% say they could get a gun). Are today’s youth really in a state of moral decay? What do all these statistics mean? Well‚ for starters‚ they mean that something has to change! Attitudes like these are shocking in any age group but when they come from young people they are also heartbreaking. Aside from the fact that the
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Innes Jerry “Sean” Hughes Mid Term Kant vs. Bentham Throughout the realm of philosophy there have been many arguments on the idea of ethics and what motivates human nature and guides our judgments. I will be focusing on two philosophers both of whom tried to answer that question. Jeremy Bentham whose views on what should be used to guide our judgments as to what’s wrong or right have been defined as utilitarianism. Focusing on a different idea using morals and a sense of duty to the greater
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At first glance‚ moral relativism appears to be an appealing‚ well though out philosophical view. The truth of moral judgments is relative to the judging subject or community. The basic definition of moral relativism is that all moral points of view are equally valid; no single person’s morals are any more right or wrong than any other person’s. As you look closer at the points that moral relativists use to justify their claims‚ you can plainly see that there are‚ more often than not‚ viable objections
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Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals‚ he sets forth to explain the relationship between actions and their moral worth. In this paper‚ I will begin by explaining what determines the moral worth of actions based on the three types of motivations‚ distinguishing particularly between actions from duty versus in accordance with duty. Then‚ I will explain the seeming contradiction set forth in Kant’s examples of actions from duty. Finally‚ I will describe how Kant believes that most actions stem from
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Public use of reason has become a cornerstone of German thought with philosophers such as Immanuel Kant‚ arguing that reason is a public matter that should be done for the betterment of society‚ but others such as Moses Mendelssohn believe the key to achieving an individual’s felicity is through their own private use of reason. Both agree reason is absolutely necessary in the pursuit of enlightenment‚ but each hold reason in their own unique regards as to how it should be used to achieve enlightenment
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