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    less fortunate people are starving –Rachels Drowning child in shallow rudimental pond -To save child‚ he has to get wet/muddy Premise 1: If we can prevent something bad from happening without sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance‚ then we ought to do so. Premise 2: Absolute poverty is very bad (because of pain‚

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    instead acting on their intrinsic ethical principles and moral understandings. This motivation from personal morality at an older age is consistent with Kohlberg’s post-conventional level of moral development. The post-conventional level includes the last two stages of Kohlberg’s model in which people are driven to obtain their individual rights‚ as they grow to achieve the final stage of moral development in which they are driven by their own moral principles and values. The development of this final

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    Friedrich Nietzsche’s essay in On the Genealogy of Morals explores the origins and meaning to different moral concepts. Nietzsche does not believe that moral values are given; rather they emerge under certain conditions‚ promoting the survival and growth of a particular group of people. The way Nietzsche describes morality as “the slave revolt in morality began with resentment itself becomes creative and gives birth to values: the ressentiment of natures that are denied the true reaction‚ that of

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    exist for studying moral development during adolescence. First‚ cognitive changes that occur during adolescence are related to moral development. Formal operational thinking allows the adolescent to interpret the social environment in new and different ways. Second‚ because adolescents are capable of devising new and idealistic social orders to which all are expected to conform‚ we may view them as moral philosophers. A number of researchers have noted other changes in moral development that point

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    5 Moral Principles

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    Same Gender Marriage My 5 Moral Principles Equality Amongst All Human Beings Principles of Right and Wrong Principles of Life Principles of Individuality Principles of Religion Same Gender Marriage Equality Amongst All Human Beings- There is no violation in equality amongst all human beings. Because everyone has the right to do what they want with their life. As human beings we are all equal to make our own choices. Whether that may be to be married civilly or in common law. Principles

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    for Research on Adolescence Moral Development in Adolescence Daniel Hart Rutgers University Gustavo Carlo University of Nebraska-Lincoln Themes in the papers in this special issue of the JRA on moral development are identified. We discuss the intersection of moral development research with policy concerns‚ the distinctive qualities of moral life in adolescence that warrant investigation‚ the multiple connotations of ‘‘moral‚’’ the methods typical of moral development research‚ and the

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    as the Criterion for Moral Judgment Ethics is the study of human conduct or in other words the study of moral behavior. All humans use ethics in their daily actions and decisions‚ but not many have the opportunity to probe into the core of ethics. When Socrates said in 399 B.C.‚ "The unexplained life is not worth living" he was encouraging man to examine his way of life and ways of moral decision making. Ethics not only aims to discover the rules that should govern a moral life‚ but the goods

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    What Is Moral Obligation

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    What is moral obligation? What is the extent of our moral obligation to other people and other living things? By definition moral obligation is the belief that an act is one prescribed by a persons set of values (Wikipedia‚ 2005). It is also a duty‚ which one owes‚ and which one ought to perform‚ but is not legally bound to fulfill. David Hume ’s moral theory hinges on a distinction between psychologically distinct players: the moral agent‚ the receiver‚ and the moral spectator. All actions

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    In his Stages of Moral Development‚ Lawrence Kohlberg states that human beings progress from a Preconventional Level of moral development (in which they refer to rules imposed by others) to a Postconventional Level of moral development (in which they refer to rules imposed from within themselves). Just as Kohlberg states‚ adolescents undergo moral growth in stages. They may be easily influenced by peers or by environmental cues‚ but most teens grow to assert impressive measures of responsibility

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    Moral education is becoming an increasingly popular topic in the fields of psychology and education. Media reports of increased violent juvenile crime‚ teen pregnancy‚ and suicide have caused many to declare a moral crisis in our nation. No one can deny the importance of moral education. It is the only way out to keep control that they find themselves unable to differentiate between right and wrong. Moral education will enable them to go on the right path forgetting all those which are not at all

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