End Justify The Means? First‚ let’s try to understand the sense in which the word "justifies" is used in the familiar statement that "the end justifies the means." After that we can consider the problem you raise about whether it is all right to employ any means - good or bad - so long as the end is good. When we say that something is "justified‚" we are simply saying that it is right. Thus‚ for example‚ when we say that a college is justified in expelling a student who falls below a passing
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Essay Aristotle’s doctrine of the mean is concerned with how our virtuous actions or feelings are dispersed in the right amount toward others. Aristotle defines the mean as‚ “The “equal” part is something median between excess and deficiency” (42). Simply put the division of a part into two equal halves leaves an equal portion on the left and an equal portion on the right. The median does not allow one side to have more than the other side or one side to have less than the other side. Aristotle is applying
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The idea that "the ends justify the means" is very dangerous because not only can it hurt others but it can also damage those who believe in that idea and take action to do it. Some people have a tendency to focus only on the outcomes since they seem much more victorious and glorious than the time they have to spend to reach them. This tendency might tempt one to cheat to get to good ends as quickly as possible. The movie‚ Cheaters directed by John Stockwell‚ shows how pursing only a good outcome
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popular movie Mean Girls‚ Lindsay Lohan plays a confused teenager struggling her way through high school hierarchy. Her character‚ Cady‚ is a transfer student that finds herself in a place where everyone is categorized in some kind of group‚ whether it be jocks‚ art freaks‚ or something else. Some of the cliques were seen as more powerful than others‚ but each had some kind of reputation. The movie can be analyzed in the Marxist perspective‚ wherein the text shows who is empowered and who is disempowered
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What does it mean to be a WestJetter? The airline industry rides a train that is propelled by many different factors‚ such as the state of the economy‚ jet fuel prices‚ people’s view of the industry itself and the image of the individual airline entity. Founded by Clive Beddoe‚ Don Bell‚ Mark Hill and Tim Morgan‚ WestJet has been riding a different train from the get-go since its inauguration in 1996‚. Nobody would have thought that a bottom-up management structure in an airline business would
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I chose the film Mean Girls for this assignment because I have already seen the film. With previous knowledge about the film‚ I knew that it was full of conflict and watching a movie I have previously seen allowed me to focus on the textbook and its concepts‚ rather than everything that was taking place in the film. Power without question is a major reason why conflict took place in Mean Girls and why it takes place in the real-world. Power is the structure of conflict and it is rare for people
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(PMLA) hereinafter referred to as Know Your Client (KYC) requirements. It is for use by INDIVIDUALS only. A separate form is provided for non-individual entities such as Hindu Undivided Family (HUF)‚ Corporates‚ Trusts‚ Societies‚ etc. This form is not an Investment Application Form‚ and is only meant for providing information and documents required for KYC compliance. Applicant must be KYC compliant while investing with any SEBI registered Mutual Fund which has subscribed to the services of CDSL Ventures
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International Journal of Advanced Research in Management and Social Sciences ISSN: 2278-6236 RURALISATION OF URBAN AREAS: REVERSING DEVELOPMENT IN ZIMBABWE Jacob Mugumbate* Francis Maushe* Chamunogwa Nyoni‚ PhD* Abstract: Urbanisation is on an upward trend in Zimbabwe as evidenced by expansion of urban centres. Notwithstanding advances towards urbanisation‚ some urban centres are actually de-urbanising or ruralising as witnessed by deteriorating livelihoods‚ services and infrastructure
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Her Hairs So Big" : The Power of A Secret in The Crucible and Mean Girls Secrets are the ammunition in this girl battle within the novel and movie‚ Miller’s The Crucible‚ and Waters’ Mean Girls. Telling other people’s secrets‚ and even just holding them can put a person in a position of power. This isn’t a type of power that comes to you easily‚ the girls that become powerful work hard and covertly to do so. In both The Crucible and Mean Girls the girls with the secrets have bad intentions for using
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PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS Lab‚ Seminar‚ Lecture 4. Behavior of the sample average X-bar The topic of 4th seminar&lab is the average of the population that has a certain characteristic. This average is the population parameter of interest‚ denoted by the greek letter mu. We estimate this parameter with the statistic x-bar‚ the average in the sample. Probability and statistics - Karol Flisikowski X-bar Definition 1 x xi n i 1 Probability and statistics - Karol Flisikowski
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