Moral Dilemma Moral dilemma is defined as a conflict in which you have to choose between two or more actions and have moral reasons for choosing each action. In other words‚ it means that you have to choose between equally undesirable alternatives. It is also defined as a situation in which the person making the decision experiences a conflict between the moral rightness of a decision and the quality of the results it produces. As human beings‚ we are constantly in the middle
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22‚ 2014 1st Period Moral Dilemma’s In any situation‚ a dilemma never has a positive conclusion because‚ unlike most problems‚ the twist to a dilemma is that there is no real happy ending‚ only a decision between bad and worse. It isn’t black and white‚ but more like a thousand different shades of grey and we can only pick one and hope it turns out okay. There are different types of dilemmas such as; physical and moral. The difference between the two is that a moral dilemma is going to have
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“HE IS THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS‚ OF ALL THINGS THAT ARE THAT THEY ARE‚ AND OF THINGS THAT ARE NOT THAT THEY ARE NOT...” By: Protagoras INTRODUCTION Protagoras of Abdera was one of several fifth century Greek thinkers collectively known as the Older Sophists‚ a group of travelling teachers or intellectuals who were experts in rhetoric (the science of oratory) and related subjects. His famous saying is: “Man is the measure of all things: of things which are‚ that they are‚ and of things
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According to 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
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some moral foundation. An atheist might choose to believe that God was correct in saying that “killing is wrong” not because he believes in God’s word but rather he believes that the rule is intrinsically good. 3. According to the Divine Command Theory why should we obey the moral law? According to the Divine Command Theory‚ we should obey the moral law because it is the word of God. The DCT suggests that “morally right” means “willed by God‚” so acting in compliance with moral law is
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prolong suffering unnecessarily it is morally acceptable to choose the more humane option 2. the conventional model makes decisions on irrelevant grounds bowel obstruction is irrelevant grounds to make a life or death decision 3. conventional makes no moral distinction between killing and letting die 4. most common arguments in favor of passive euthanasia are invalid medical ethics suggest that withholding treatment is permissible but actively killing the patient is forbidden Example: Painful throat
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JANE: Hi‚ Zach! ZACHERY: Hello‚ Jane. JANE: So‚ I was wondering‚ you just finished covering moral relativism in CRA‚ right? ZACHERY: Yup. JANE: Alright‚ well‚ John was talking to me the other day‚ and I was telling him about the work I’ve been doing to support education for women in Africa. And he told me that‚ according to some guy named Mackie‚ that people’s right to education isn’t actually a moral fact and me trying to increase the education of women isn’t justified‚ cuz I’m just forcing my own
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/24/opinion/the-moral-animal.html?_r=0 The Moral Animal By JONATHAN SACKS Jonathan Sacks is the chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth and a member of the House of Lords. Published: December 23‚ 2012 IT is the religious time of the year. Step into any city in America or Britain and you will see the night sky lit by religious symbols‚ Christmas decorations certainly and probably also a giant menorah. Religion in the West seems alive and
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to guide its user in a desired direction. It has four directions; east‚ west‚ north and south. A moral compass‚ which I have recently learned‚ is also used to guide its user in a desired direction. A moral compass‚ when used‚ will provide its user moral focus as the user learns to lead in an ever more challenging and demanding world throughout their life and career. A good leader needs a moral compass that will keep the leader grounded in his most cherished values while negotiating and collaborating
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Ethical or moral relativism is the position in meta-ethics that morality is not universal‚ but that moral truths can be determined by factors relative to social‚ cultural‚ historical or personal circumstances. In the other hand‚ people who believe ethics are absolute‚ they support a set of rules that applies to everyone in general. Moral absolutism holds that moral and immoral acts are always so regardless of context. Other forms that fall into moral absolutism are ethical objectivism‚
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