Friedrich Nietzsche once said‚ “By morality the individual is taught to become a function of the herd‚ and to ascribe to himself value only as a function…Morality is the herd instinct in the individual.” Is Morality absolute or relative? Although there are many interpretations explaining why both could be right‚ each of them have theories proving why they could also be wrong. There are billions of people on this earth who come from different cultural backgrounds. Even though no culture is the same
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Cinderella‚ the main character of the world’s most famous children’s tale‚ exhibits traits that‚ if looked at carefully‚ show she is a morally compromised character with sadistic tendencies. This is what Elisabeth Panttaja‚ an ex-professor at Tufts University‚ argues in “Cinderella: Not So Morally Superior”. Panttaja uses the role of Cinderella’s mother to highlight the heroine’s unsavory actions. Cinderella and her mother constantly employ treacherous tactics to manipulate people in the name of
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Morally Fair Limbo The Inferno was part of the three-part poem called The Divine Comedy written by Dante Alighieri. Dante‚who lived from 1265 to 1321‚ was born in Florence to a middle class family and grew up during the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance. While Dante was away on a diplomatic trip‚ the Black Guelfs took over Florence and banished Dante from the city. During his life in exile‚ Dante wrote the epic poem The Divine Comedy and finished it shortly before his death
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1Assessment Task 2: Case Study The death penalty is still in force in many of countries around the world and in today ’s modern society‚ it has become a highly controversial and debatable topic. Many either stand on the grounds that the death penalty is morally wrong and there are other means of achieving justice‚ or the opposing argument. These arguments arise from the notion of human dignity. Human dignity is a major factor as execution by the state contradicts the universally recognised fundamental rights
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This idea that perhaps seemingly “good” people can be able to ignore what is obviously morally wrong led me to an article about an interesting experiment: The Milgram experiment. This experiment‚ developed and run by Stanley Milgram‚ took place at Yale University in 1961. Milgram’s experiment consisted of having volunteers from a diverse range of backgrounds and occupations individually brought into a room and sat at a table with an array of levers. Across from this volunteer was another person who
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clear which cultural moral standard applies or if he knows about universal moral truth‚ because a universal moral truth that murder is wrong does exist. Zein Isa can be morally judged based on the existence of universal truth shows that even if someone is unaware of the existence of the universal truth it does exist and they can be morally judged accordingly‚ the difference between killing and murder in the moral truth‚ and can be proven to exist by what determines justification in taking a life. The
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1. Yes‚ affirmative action policy is morally defensible‚ 2. I think United States of America has successfully implemented the policy of affirmative action‚ majority of people of all racial groups there (African Americans/ blacks)‚ are employed and there is a balance between men and woman. The policy succeeded because they managed to empower or to redress the racial issue in most sectors of the economy. 3. South African government chose to implement the affirmative action and act‚ because
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When it pertains to lying‚ I believe it is morally permissible to lie to someone given a specific situation. The most imperative circumstance in which lying has the potential to make more people happy is when it applied to prevent harm/protecting someone’s life. Lying is the right thing to do in this situation as it safeguards your fellow man. According to Emanuel Kant (2008)‚ “Immediately I realize that I could will •the lie but not •a universal law to lie; for such a law would result in there being
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Non-Ambiguous: A Dream and Reality Now Severed Wesley J.A. Todd America was the great melting pot. It was full of many diverse flavors. Some were spicy‚ some were tart‚ and some were even bitter; it was boiling and brimming‚ but it is now burning. Is our pot too full; is it time to replace the lid? Bruce Springsteen once stated‚ “I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.” One may feel that the American dream is no longer ambiguous with the American
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Racial Profiling is Morally wrong Some people are not aware of the racial profiling that still exists in America‚ and if they are they make no effort of talking about it. Police prejudice and racial profiling is responsible for many false arrests‚ convictions and deaths of African Americans. Racial profiling is the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone to have committed an offense. This has been an ongoing problem that African Americans have been dealing with for more than
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