What role does duty play in ethics? Based on this‚ do you resonate more with the utilitarian‚ virtue ethics‚ Kantian‚ natural rights‚ or egoist theories? Provide an example if you choose to answer this question. While‚ I tend to agree more with the Kantian principle of categorical imperatives which tend to say that morals should come not out of desires or wants but out of duty as desires and wants are hypothetical Imperatives. Duty should be the deciding factor for what is ethical or not. I tend
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App Final Project HargroveH Fitness For Duty Evaluation Abstract The fitness-for-duty evaluation is an assessment of a police officer ’s psychological ability to securely and effectively perform their job. Officers may be referred or mandated when an officer experiences a work-related injury but is usually in response to questions about an officer’s ability to perform his duty because of psychological factors. The nature of fitness-for-duty evaluations is different from other psychological
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What is Pollution? Pollution is the presence or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects. It is created mostly by human actions‚ but can also be a result of natural disasters. Pollution has a detrimental effect on every living organism in the environment‚ making it increasingly unsustainable for living organisms in the environment. to sustain life. Pollution harms the Earth’s environment and its inhabitants in many ways. The three main types
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Man has never been content to leave the natural preserved in the state in which it was discovered. Likewise‚ the Everglades ecosystem has been bombarded by this pressure as man seeks to "redesign" the environment to suit the needs of the ever encroaching human population. This has brought about profound changes in this system and the way it operates. Collectors were among the first to extract a toll on this area because of its exotic indigenous creatures. Species which now face extinction include:
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The prime instigator of conflict is fear When we people feel frightened‚ it is often that the fright itself is the point when conflict is build. It is not wrong if we say that conflict is not only triggered by fear. There are many things that could cause a conflict‚ but when you think a bit further‚ these things are caused none other but by fear. Hatred of one person to the other is generally caused by fear that also brings up anger and envy. Fears of the uncertain future and death also provoke
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Man’s Search for Meaning‚ written by Viktor Frankl‚ is a memoir about overcoming sufferings to have an optimistic perspective on life in the midst of pain and death. Frankl provides examples of his own experiences after surviving three years in a Nazi concentration camp where his parents‚ brother‚ wife‚ and children died. Using his logotherapy theory‚ Frankl elaborates on the human pursuit while finding significance through experiences and sufferings. Against a backdrop of violence‚ cruelty‚ and
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Australia and many other common law countries (e.g. England‚ Canada) have been reluctant to impose upon bystanders a general duty to aid the proverbial baby drowning in a puddle of water‚ ’ though there have been several exceptions to the general rule which the courts have distinguished‚ usually where some sort of prior relationship exists between the parties. Protagonists of a duty to rescue ’ tend to base their arguments around the idea that contemporary morality demands the law impose some sort of
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It was a priests duty to serve the temple and its god. He made sure the temple was running properly. This involved a lot of administration work. If a worshipper did something wrong or behaved badly‚ a priest could order them to pay a fine. Priests were in charge of the temple treasury house‚ where gifts for the gods were stored. Some visitors to temples had travelled long distances and it was the priests job to offer them hospitality. Priests were in charge of building or re-pairing their temple
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The Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer is a novel which focuses on main protagonist Minke in the 1890’s Dutch colonized Indonesia. During the 1890’s in Indonesia‚ the social classes were segregated from the upper-class Europeans‚ to the mixed-race Indonesians in the middle and native Indonesians at the bottom. Furthermore‚ women were shown as characters that were weak. Throughout the novel‚ Toer writes about the women’s limited voice and power in society as Nyai Ontosoroh and Maiko were both
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This Earth of Mankind is about Minke‚ a Javanese minor royal‚ who studies at Hollands Burgelukse School‚ or HBS. This takes place in a time when only the descendants of the European colonizers can expect to achieve this level of education. This relates directly to autonomy and responsibility by having the self-worth to achieve such high standers. In the book‚ Minke is talented young writer whose works become published in several Dutch-language journals which are greatly admired. This skill
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