Introduction to Philosophy Plato is one of the many philosophers who have had an influence on the ideas of humane thinking. Born in Athens‚ believed to be around 428 BC‚ Plato has expressed various works pertaining to idealism and the theory of forms. Plato has made many allegories and metaphors of life. One of his many famous writings would be included in his collected dialogues. The Republic‚ Book 1‚ is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato around his mid-life. The Republic (Book 1) focuses
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the view of thinking that there is a single standard in terms of assessments that can be made‚ and that standard is usually their own. In a clash of cultures‚ they often see the other culture as simply wrong insofar as it deviates from their own. Relativism sees each culture as correct in its own world and they deny any exhaustive standard in terms of which conflicting cultures can be judged. Philosophical flaws involved with two notions in relation to the concept of tolerance can be illustrated by
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fabric of any society is held together by the standards of morality that we maintain and practice. Values are our personal set of beliefs about what is important‚ unimportant‚ right‚ wrong‚ good and bad. When we are confronted by choices‚ options‚ or moral dilemmas‚ the decisions we make will indicate what values we hold. Human values give worthiness and respect to life. The foundation of human values are based on · Dignity of human life · Respect and consideration for the "other" · The importance of
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Moral Development According to Life Span (2006)‚ moral development requires a complex interweaving of emotions‚ cognitions‚ and behaviors (Broderick & Blewitt‚ 2006‚ p. 221). There are two major theories of moral development: Piaget ’s and Kohlberg ’s. These two are similar in that they are both stage theories related to cognitive development‚ but Kohlberg sees moral development as a more complex and longer process than Piaget ’s theory. Piaget ’s two-stage model proposes a premoral period where
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Andrew Surratt March 27‚ 2012 Political Theory Dr. Ramona Grey Plato’s goal of education for enlightenment differs from Huxley’s perverted use of education for indoctrination. In Plato’s Republic‚ Plato believed the state was responsible for the education of its citizens for the purpose of their individual enlightenment. Huxley‚ in his work Brave New World takes this part of Plato’s utopian society and perverts it in order to indoctrinate the citizens of his state. I will attempt to argue
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Is moral universalism the truth? According to Streiffer [1]‚ moral universalism is an ethical position that there are some moral values which are agreed by all people‚ ignoring nationality‚ culture‚ religion or other differentiating features. Some famous philosophers‚ from the ancient Platonists and Stoics‚ to modern Kantian‚ Objectivist‚ believed in moral universalism. Besides‚ a majority of religions have morally universalist positions. However‚ at the same time‚ there are also some famous philosophers
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Moral rights in Canadian copyright law are protected under the Copyright Act of Canada and include an author’s right to attribution‚ integrity and association of a work. Moral rights are to be distinguished from economic rights; moral rights essentially being derived from the reflection of the author’s personality in his or her work‚ whereas economic rights grant an author the ability to benefit economically from their work. An author of a work retains moral rights for the length of the copyright
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Yu Chen Professor Gaines ENGL 100 10/13/2014 The Moral of Drones Bradley Jay Strawser’s "The morality of drone warfare revisited" discusses his argument in support of using drones. The audience is the government. His thesis is that drone strikes may cause less collateral damage than bombing‚ but that is not an argument for current US targeted killing policy. Mark LeVine’s “When philosophers join the kill chain” discusses the negative side of drones. The audience is the scholars. His thesis is that
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Jane is a seven years old girl from a middle class family. While getting upstairs to her flat‚ she saw somebody ’s wallet on the stairs. She was very curious what ’s inside‚ so she picked it up and opened it. She saw a few credit cards‚ like she saw in her mom ’s wallet‚ but also she saw some money. There were no adults around‚ so‚ Jane took it home to talk to her mom about it. Mom was not there‚ and Jane decided to look at the wallet again. While she was waiting ‚ she counts the money
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Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism The world today consists of an incalculable number of societies. Each society varies significantly in the different elements of culture. Culture is one’s designed way of living based on erudite customs‚ knowledge‚ material items‚ and behavior. Within every society today lives an ethnocentric attitude. The belief that ones own culture is superior to that of another’s. However‚ it is important to develop a sense of cultural relativism in today’s society‚ considering
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