“The strengths of cultural and ethical relativism outweigh their weaknesses” - discuss. Cultural relativism is the concept that what is right or wrong varies according to the beliefs of each culture. Within different cultures we may observe that what we believe is morally wrong‚ they see as a normal thing‚ such as how many muslims believe that chopping off the hand is the correct punishment for stealing‚ where as in my culture this would be seen as simply barbaric. Because there are so many different
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Family Adaptation on Pregnancy In Barangay Tunasan‚ Arandia Street‚ Muntinlupa City A Thesis Proposal Presented to the Faculty of College of Nursing Lyceum of the Philippines University In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements of the Degree Bachelor of Science in Nursing By Gelilio‚ Roche Marie Belle D. THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND 1.1 Introduction and Background of the Study Based on latest Census of Population and Housing‚ which was conducted last May 1 2010‚ the household
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Teenage pregnancy is affecting the graduation rate in high schools. All over the nation the dropout rate of students is increasing‚ of which teen pregnancy is often a factor. “Approximately 1‚000 high school students will drop out with each hour that passes in a school day in America. This means that 30 percent of the class of 2007‚ or 1.2 million students‚ were estimated to have dropped out last year” (National Women’s Law Center‚ 2007). Many factors combine to affect a pregnant or parenting teen’s
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child‚ society still felt that was a rather low age to withhold a pregnancy. Upon my reading of Cathy Gulli’s article on teenage pregnancy‚ she opens reader’s eyes to a bigger picture upon youth sex‚ or what I call “sex for dummies.” In “Suddenly Teen Pregnancy is Cool?” she stresses her opinion that modern things in society such as celebrities‚ movies‚ home life and many other things are issues that ignite the fuel of teen pregnancy. She also put emphasis on the generation‚ age‚ as well as countries
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Utilitarianism is the idea that an action is morally right if the consequences of the action benefit everyone. In the case where a young man who cheated on his college entrance exam Utilitarianism says that this is not a morally right decision‚ because while the person who committed the action‚ the young man in this case‚ may benefit from the knowledge they gain from that education they got from that school‚ the action does not benefit the other young man or woman who did not cheat on the test and
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Utilitarianism: “Actions are right in the proportion as they tend to promote happiness‚ wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.” John Stuart Mill utilitarianism‚ 1863 Utilitarians founder Jeremy Bentham has a famous formulation that is know as the “greatest-happiness principle”. The definition of this is “the ethical principle that an action is right in so far as it promotes the greatest happiness of the greatest number of those affected”. Central Beliefs: There are seven
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Utilitarianism‚ yet another ethical theory between right or wrong. If everyone acted in an effort to promote the greatest good for the greater number of people our universe would exist with a utilitarian state of mind. Although‚ when one looks at this statement on the surface without further analyzing it‚ most would assume that existing in a universe where everyone seeks the happiness for the greatest amount of people that it would be greater one to live in. Although‚ surface wise we can make
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Unplanned Teen Pregnancies is Possible and Valuable One of the largest drains on our society is the cost associated with unplanned pregnancies‚ especially those in teenagers. With the proper implementation of preventative programs‚ these costs could be lower or alleviated all together. While the United States teen pregnancy rate fell in 2009‚ it was calculated in a 2006 report by Saul Hoffman‚ that teen childbearing cost taxpayers at least $9.1 billion (The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned
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Utilitarianism and Business Ethics Utilitarianism is a normative‚ consequentialist‚ empirical philosophy which links the idea of a good action to one which promotes maximum pleasure or happiness‚ found by adding up costs and benefits (or pains and pleasures). It has two classic formulations - Bentham’s hedonistic (pleasure-based) act utilitarianism and Mill’s eudaimonistic (happiness-based) rule utilitarianism. In this article we make some preliminary comments on Bentham and Mill before analysing
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At first glance‚ moral relativism appears to be an appealing‚ well though out philosophical view. The truth of moral judgments is relative to the judging subject or community. The basic definition of moral relativism is that all moral points of view are equally valid; no single person’s morals are any more right or wrong than any other person’s. As you look closer at the points that moral relativists use to justify their claims‚ you can plainly see that there are‚ more often than not‚ viable objections
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