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    Abortion: Morally Permissible or Impermissible? Abortion can be defined as a means of terminating a pregnancy by removing or expelling a fetus from the uterus before viability. Abortion has been‚ and will always be‚ a controversial issue in today’s society and in the future. People have always struggled to determine whether it is ethical to abort a fetus; morally permissible (acceptable) or morally impermissible (unacceptable). The polarizing views that are associated with abortion makes this

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    HYPERLINK "http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/kant.htm" Immanuel Kant answers the question in the first sentence of the essay: “Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.” He argues that the immaturity is self-inflicted not from a lack of understanding‚ but from the lack of courage to use one’s reason‚ intellect‚ and wisdom without the guidance of another. He exclaims that the motto of enlightenment is “Sapere aude”! – Dare to be wise! The German word Unmündigkeit means not

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    Executive Summary This report challenges the question of whether pornography is morally ethical or unethical and how society views it today. There were three key ethical theories used to related and cross-examine to see and understand the different views of pornography and how each ethical theory provides a different reasoning behind it. Whether pornography is ethical or unethical in society‚ this research paper provides you with concrete examples of why our society feels the way they do about pornography

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    we have towards another person‚ a group or society as a whole. In this sense‚ deontology is concerned with the intrinsic properties of actions‚ not their end result. Immanuel Kant is arguably the most famous advocate of modern deontology. According to Kant‚ moral law is synthetic apriori and took an absolutist approach. Kant argued that since everyone possesses the capacity to reason and has a conscience‚ it would be possible for all people to arrive at an understanding of moral truths without the

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    John Locke argued that a legitimate government would be validated through the consent of the people it governed and protected‚ specifically the protection of a citizens natural rights of life‚ liberty‚ and estate. He also believed that citizens had the right of rebellion in the event that a government was acting against the rights and interests of its citizens‚ ultimately allowing those governed to replace the government with another in the interests of the people. Locke believed that the state of

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    have children removed from their home still have rights over them. Placing their child in foster care is only a temporary solution in order to stabilize the family and protect the child. Legally‚ once the child is in state custody‚ the parents no longer have control of what is going to happen to their child. Although the parents maintain their rights‚ the state now provide and maintain the welfare of that child while the parent(s) complete the goals given to them to regain custody (Koocher‚ 1990)

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    Written Assignment: Article Review Date: November 20th‚ 2013 Class: History 202 By: Alyssa Unrau Laury Oaks article “What are Pro-Life Feminists Doing on Campus?” from 2009‚ gives us a clear definition of what a “pro-life feminist” is but not why “it is”. Her writing brings light and awareness to a version of feminism. Many do not realize there are a few different types of feminisms out there and surprisingly not all of them are advocates for the pro-choice movements

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    Table of Contents Section A 2 1. My current set of values and beliefs about human beings 2 2. My current set of values and beliefs about my chosen counselling setting 2 3. My current set of values and beliefs about myself 3 4. How can I resolve any contradictions? 4 5. How my beliefs and values affect my work and attitude towards counselling 4 Section B 5 1. What does counselling mean to me? 5 2. How do I distinguish counselling from helping? 5 3. How do I distinguish counselling from psychotherapy

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    Have you ever wondered what it was like to live in London in the 1600 ’s? What did people learn? What kind of jobs did they do? I know you probably don ’t ever think about that‚ but maybe this presentation will leave you to walk away wondering: How could they live like that?!! Let ’s start with where we would be as children in London. The boys would be at a school getting a public education; the girls would be at home getting a private education from a tutor. Although a girl ’s education would usually

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    liberation for many‚ it was also an era of civil unrest. The cultural advancements and diverse social landscapes of the 1920s were shaping a new society that threatened old ideals and exacerbated cultural conflict from those who so desperately wanted to cling to a set of values that were becoming obsolete in the new social climate. In the decades preceding the twenties‚ the Great Migration began and nearly six million African Americans moved from the South to the North. During the 1920s‚ African Americans

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