amiable it is still of no moral worth. For example a man who does acts of good will and gets a feeling of satisfaction from doing them is not acting morally. In the same way that a soldier saves another soldiers with only an inclination that he will get a medal is also not morally dutiful. So how can we have Overdetermined dutiful moral actions? Henson attempts to get around Kant’s rather stark doctrine by saying that a dutiful act would have moral worth provided that respect for duty was present
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Introduction In many societies today‚ evidence exists of an increase in information that has opened a floodgate of knowledge‚ thereby putting a dent into human ignorance and significantly changing various aspects of life including education‚ communication‚ business and societal living. It is this prevalence of information that has led to the birth of what theoreticians refer to as the ‘information society’. It is not known exactly when the information society came into being‚ but it is believed
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The Indian Act and its Effect on Modern Society The Indian Act is one of the most outdated and irrelevant pieces of legislature ever written. In 1876‚ the Crown consolidated all existing laws pertaining to Indians‚ and called this new document the Indian Act. They did not solicit input from Aboriginal people and in fact‚ at that time‚ Aboriginal people were not even allowed to vote for or against the politicians who were creating this Act. If this Act was written in 1876‚ what effect could it
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Assignment As an immigrant to this country‚ I have been given the opportunity to compare both legal systems. By comparing both systems‚ I was able to evaluate the positive and negative factors involved and thus structure the regulations that should obey. There is a list of factors that influence the decisions why some obey the law and why some do not: background‚ financial stability‚ education; they all affect the decisions that people make such as talking on the phone while driving or get
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| Do We Live in a Sustainable Society? | MMCC Winter 2012SCI 200George Gilmore | | Jonathan Norman | 2/24/2012 | | There are many ways to define sustainability and to answer the question of whether we live in a sustainable society you should first define the question. The simplest definition of what a sustainable society is still very complex. A society that can persist over generations‚ one that is farseeing enough‚ flexible enough‚ and wise enough not to undermine either its
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Philosophy 1301 10 February 2013 Should We Be Eating That? Throughout the year there are billions of animals that are slaughtered for human consumption. I eat meat‚ but there are some very strong philosophical arguments that show that slaughtering animals for our consumption is morally wrong. While some will agree with this assumption‚ I however disagree. It is morally okay to eat meat because if everyone became a vegetarian‚ there would be negative consequences‚ we need meat to be healthy‚ and animals
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Overall Cost Leadership Porter defines “Overall Cost Leadership” as the strategy in which a company differentiates from others by having the lowest prices of the market. One example of this strategy correctly performed in Australia is Woolworths. According to Jhon Steen (2009)‚ in order to accomplish such prices‚ Woolworths focus on two main points: Logistics and Economics on Scale. They have learned to manage the supply chain in a very efficient way‚ investing in technology and reducing the
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abortion is morally acceptable and permissible. If both the mother and the fetus have rights‚ then either the rights of the fetus have priority‚ or those of the mother have priority. If that didn’t complicate matters enough‚ we have those who argue that some fetuses have moral rights while others do not‚ making abortion sometimes morally permissible and sometimes morally impermissible. The purpose of this essay; to argue that abortion is either always morally permissible or it is always morally impermissible
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Because It Is Running By Because it is running by is a short story by Jo Lloyd written in 2009. The story is about a boy called Wil‚ he lives with his mother where he helps her run their Bed and Breakfast and their crops. He dropped out of school when he was 16 because his dad died and he had to help out his mother. One summer his mom decides that they need a housekeeper that can help them out a bit so she can get some free time to herself. Her name is Edie‚ at first Wil is not really fond of her
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3‚ 2010 Dr. Susan Cannata Composition 1 Eng(1050-030) My Writing Then and Now As I began my college career yet again‚ I was so nervous of making simple mistakes because of how I had done before in the same English course. I started college right out of high school and didn’t focus like I should have. I took some time off because I thought that college wasn’t for me‚ so I got a pretty good paying job at a pharmacy but it didn’t take me long to realize that without an education you will never go
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