The Immorality of Abortion Religion‚ personal rights‚ or science normally fuels the debate on abortion. However abortion can be looked at philosophically and debated whether it is moral or immoral. In this paper I will argue that abortion is immoral because it deprives the zygote from any future life. In The Journal of Philosophy‚ Don Marquis argues in his essay‚ “Why Abortion is Immoral” that abortion is wrong because it deprives the fetus of a ‘future like ours’
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Aristotle was correct when he said that “moral excellence comes about as a result of habit”. Religions and many successful people of the world have made a habit of committing moral acts in order to achieve their moral excellence and sense of virtue. Anyone can achieve moral excellence as long as they develop the habits that can take them to the level that they wish to reach. In the religion of Christianity Aristotle’s beliefs are intact. In the bible Christians are told of commandments that they
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The way I interpret the four approaches to moral differences are as follows: Soft Universalism is where a person or people have certain morals they loosely base their actions/lifestyle on‚ but they don’t have any qualms with straying from them depending on the situation. I think this approach is more of a‚ coward’s way out‚ if you will. It basically means you don’t really have to stand by any morals whatsoever‚ because you can say you’re all for or all against something‚ until the situation arises
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Moral Relativism: An Evaluation The world is becoming an increasingly smaller place‚ culturally speaking. The modern world has more bridges to other cultures and ways of thinking than ever before. This phenomenon is due largely to the advent of the internet‚ global industry‚ and increased travel for business and pleasure to opposite corners of the world. This “global village” we live in introduces the average person to more cultural‚ and seemingly moral‚ differences than previous generations
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Moral universalism Moral universalism also called as moral objectivism which can be defined as the position in meta-ethics that some moral values can be applied universally to everyone which is also known as universal morality. Besides‚ moral universalism also can be defined as the system of ethics‚ or a universal ethic that applies to all people regardless of their personal opinion or the majority opinion of their cultures. Furthermore‚ moral universalism also holds the moral values that apply
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Moral Courage Given our already stated definition of "moral courage" as (the ability to act rightly in the face of popular opposition‚ shame‚ scandal‚ or discouragement) several instances can be found throughout history of the use (or lack of) moral courage to influence the decisions impacting the significant events of the world. Our first demonstration of the lack of moral courage can be found during the Holocaust‚ in which Jewish men masqueraded in Hitler’s army and willingly took part in the
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MORAL DECAY (Reflection Paper) As generations pass by‚ people become less conservative about what they do and how they perceive their surroundings. Mostly‚ it comes from the media and I’m not only talking about what they show in TV‚ that’s the first‚ but also to what people listen to like music. For example‚ some of today’s most popular music to teenagers are very explicit‚ so since it is popular and it’s lyrics are quite misleading‚ these children tend to do what they hear from these songs unconsciously
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Moral Responsibility Brian Hadley PHI200 Dr. Maul 11/26/12 Moral Responsibility Around the world‚ in many third world countries‚ human suffering is caused by many causes like ethnic cleansing‚ starvation‚ war‚ poor living conditions‚ natural disasters‚ and more. According to Peter Singer (1972) in his article “Famine‚ Affluence‚ and Morality” people and governments have not properly done enough to help others in emergency situations‚ like the situation in East Bengal during the 1970’s where
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Everyone human being on the planet carries with them a moral philosophy of some sort. For some people it is a way of life‚ and they consult their philosophy before making any moral decision. However‚ for many their personal moral philosophy is undefined or unclear to them. Perhaps these people have a philosophy of their own that they abide to; yet fail to recognize that it exists. What I hope to uncover with this paper is my moral philosophy‚ and how I apply it in my everyday life. In my life
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way. After that‚ what I should do is to encourage others to do the similar things. Moral compass should run through the whole process. An individual’s effort is meager but we should not neglect it. Just as the recycle‚ if I do well in recycling every time I want to throw my rubbish and tell others the importance of recycle‚ more and more people will be impacted if I carry on doing this. Key Take-away Moral compass is the principle and norm that leads us to proper and right behavior. Doing
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