Nietzsche is inherently polemic. This is a characterization that Nietzsche has applied to himself; the book that both informs‚ and is informed by every other book Nietzsche has written on the subject of revaluation of existing values‚ On the Genealogy of Morality‚ is subtitled simply A Polemic. It is clear that in this context‚ Nietzsche’s polemic is derived from the extent to which Nietzsche’s argument will invariably conflict with the existing system of valuation‚ to which the book is meant to
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Anti +arrack movement Anti +arrack movement means movement against alcoholism. An anti- arrack movement was created in a remote village in Dubagunta‚ in Andhra Pradesh in 1972. It began as a spontaneous movement of women against alcoholism and agitated to force the closure of the arrack (liquor) shop in the village in Nellore district and adopted by the other districts of Andhra Pradesh. There was no organized leadership to start with in the anti-arrack movement. Most of the groundwork
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In the movie Pulp Fiction‚ the overarching theme of the movie goes to say that without a higher framework or power one doesn’t see their actions to have any consequences‚ morally speaking. Morality controls the initial reasoning behind deciding whether to commit a crime or not. In this context‚ the concept of not having any morals is based on not having meaning in one’s life or seeing one’s life at the same worth as anyone else’s. This doesn’t allow for one to make any criteria in which to conduct
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would be a grim‚ inhumane place if everyone cooperated in killing the innocent. While it can be argued that the overall goal of the lie is morally good‚ Kant would reject it‚ considering it immoral in that the immorality outweighs and prevents any morality that might come later from the results of that action. One of the justifications that Kant could provide in this
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Famine‚ Affluence‚ and Morality Notes Peter Singer opens his argument by introducing the reader to a famine in Bengal setting up his first premise that starvation is bad (Singer 631-632). He then suggests for his second premise that if it is possible to stop something bad from happening‚ then we should do all we can to stop it as long as it does not cause something else just as bad to happen. Singer says that if everyone donated five pounds‚ then there would be sufficient funds to help relieve
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Journal of Business Ethics Education 8: 431-434. © 2011 NeilsonJournals Publishing. Book Review - Cyberethics: Morality and Law in Cyberspace‚ 4th Edition by Richard Spinello‚ Sudbury‚ MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers‚ 2003 Jeffrey A. Roberts Duquesne University‚ USA In the fourth edition of CyberEthics: Morality and Law in Cyberspace David Spinello continues a long and rich tradition of contribution to the field of ethics education and research. In this most recent edition‚ Spinello‚ a management
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s‚ The Great Gatsby‚ portrays society as a desolate wasteland‚ immune to morality‚ punished by the decadence of the main characters. Throughout the novel‚ Gatsby pursues a life with Daisy‚ a married woman‚ who left him earlier as a result of his lack of wealth; thus‚ Gatsby sought to reap the benefits of affluence through illicit‚ unscrupulous means. Once Gatsby completes his quest for opulence‚ he hunts for his former lover‚ Daisy‚ who is married to Tom Buchanan: an aristocrat
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view life. Immanuel Kant‚ a philosopher around the seventeen and early eighteenth century‚ was no different in his thoughts and writings about morality‚ freedom‚ reason‚ and standpoints. Morality being one of the most contradictory concepts out there‚ it only suits that there are numerous theories. Unlike Utilitarianism‚ which considers an actions morality to be dependent upon the utility resulting from the action. Kant’s moral theory holds that an actions ethicality is derived not from consequence
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would you convince anti-utopian critics such as Popper‚ Talmon and Berlin that utopian thinking is not necessarily authoritarian? There are three primary arguments that show that utopian thought is not necessarily authoritarian. The analysis will start defining key terms‚ and using Marx and Rousseau to explain the basis of Popper‚ Talmon and Berlin’s critique. It will then probe the epistemological foundations of their argument. This will lead to the two conclusions: that the anti-utopians themselves
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It is said that whistle blowing is personal if the wrongdoing affects the whistle blower alone (like sexual harassment)‚ and said to be impersonal if the wrongdoing affects other people. Many people whistle blow for two main reasons: morality and revenge. Morality is the biggest and best reason for this act because people generally want to do the good moral thing. If a person should have to blow the whistle on a company they should know that for every action there is a reaction‚ and the reaction
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