MORAL POLICING‚ WOMEN‚ MEDIA AND PERSONAL FREEDOMMoral policing is a controversial term. Its supporters say it is an important function to be performed to safeguard our culture against western influence and save our youth from corruption. Those who oppose it see it as a threat to individual freedom and democratic dissent. I would not have been interested in these debates till I saw them affecting my life as an individual and more so as a woman. What is morality? How moral policing is gender biased
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beings‚ who can reason and form self-interested judgments‚ are capable of being moral agents. Some suggest those with limited rationality (for example‚ people who are mildly mentally disabled or infants[1]) also have some basic moral capabilities.[3] Determinists argue all of our actions are the product of antecedent causes‚ and some believe this is incompatible with free will and thus claim that we have no real control over our actions. Immanuel Kant argued that whether or not our real self‚ the noumenal
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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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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 education can be given better by parents at home‚ than by schoolmasters and professors in schools and colleges. Parents have numberless opportunities of guiding their children by pre¬cept and example‚ opportunities denied to the teacher. Who generally meets his pupils in large classes‚ and seldom has the means of becoming intimately acquainted with their several char¬acters and the faults‚ other than intellectual faults‚ to which each of them is particularly prone. The first point of importance
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When reading The Crucible your mind is very lost as their morals and believes aren’t the same as our own today. The play is about witchcraft and the girls who dance as if they are witches which is considered to be immoral. The characters in this story seem to have something bad happening to them they just aren’t aware of it right away. Paris is very religious he prays a lot in the play‚ but he also seems to be very concerned as to if is daughter is lying about dancing around the fire. Knowing the
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Not many people can survive one bullet‚ let alone nine. Someone who can‚ and did‚ is Curtis Jackson‚ better known as 50 Cent. 50 cent is an inspiration to all because of how hard he worked despite his humble beginnings. 50 Cent has had a hard childhood and a difficult family life‚ but he managed to have a decent and successful career. Jackson has had many people give him an excellent opportunity and swiftly take it away‚ but he still managed grow into success and fame. Rap and Hip-Hop music has
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Abortion There are many people in this world that are strongly against the act of abortion‚ such as Republicans and most religions. I on the other hand‚ am not one of those people. Yes I believe in God and that the gift of life is precious‚ but I also believe in the mother’s having a choice on whether or not they want to be responsible for a human being. There are many valid reasons as to why a woman would consider having an abortion‚ and each reason is extremely important and should not be looked
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“Moral Intelligence” Authors: Doug Lenick and Fed Kiel Critiqued by: October 10‚ 2007 Fall 2007 Class Honor Code: “I declare and affirm that the work submitted herein is my own work product from my own labor‚ efforts‚ and endeavors‚ and that I did not seek‚ receive‚ offer‚ or accept unauthorized aid or assistance or use of the work product of another‚ unless otherwise so stated fully and completely herein.” What does it take to be a great leader? Doug Lennick‚ author
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The Moral Decay It is easy to for oneself to lose contact with morality when faced with enormous amounts of money. Not to say all of the socially inclined are morally deficient‚ but an image of moral decay is clearly painted in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby showing the corruption driven by an omni-present green light that is money. Both Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan‚ men of influence-men of money are mirrored opposites of each other; possessing general similarities in which certain differences
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