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  • Problem With Mary Anne Warrens Argument
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    Ethics of Abortion The fundamental question that most philosophers agree on when discussing abortion is, How do you determine the humanity of a being (Noonan, p. 117) Or, in other words, when does a being acquire a right to life The answer to these questions will determine when it is, if ever, morally acceptable to abort a fetus. There are many different answers varying from one extreme to another. Conservatives believe that infants acquire their rights to life at the moment of conception while ...
  • Correctness Of Particular Moral Judgments
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    On the Need for Normative Ethics: A study of Subjectivist thought Foremost is a brief description of Subjectivism, particularly Emotivism. Subjectivist thought rests on the idea that morality is a function of one's individual emotions, and that is all. The strength of Emotivism over other avenues of Subjectivism lies in its awareness of the other purposes of language. Rather than statements designed to convey information, Emotivism relies on utterances that can be deemed neither true nor false. ...
  • Cultural Relativism Argument
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    Is morality Relative to culture? This argument's foundation is the basic question on whether morality is relative to culture, or owns own desires. The pros of this argument are that we get to establish whether or not morality is a true sense of justice. As Melville J. Herskovitz indicates who is in favor of the cultural relativism notion, "Morality is a diverse unique variation of codes and ethics threat arises from culture to culture, belief to belief". He argues that we cannot judge society ba...
  • Creative Act Of Moral Decision
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    For centuries philosophers have debated over the presence of free will. As a result of these often-heated arguments, many factions have evolved, the two most prominent being the schools of Libertarianism and of Determinism. Within these two schools of thought lies another debate, that of compatibilism, or whether or not the two believes can co-exist. In his essay, Has the Self "Free Will"? , C.A. Campbell, a staunch non-compatiblist and libertarian, attempts to explain the Libertarian argument. ...
  • Warren's Categories For Person Hood
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    Jennifer Hallock Current Moral and Social Issues Paper One: 8/7/00 In Mary Anne Warren's "The Abortion Issue", children are not persons in the empirical sense. Warren believes that prior to a certain point in a pregnancy, the child does not have "the capacity to understand" the ramifications of what an abortion would be, therefore the abortion does not infringe upon the rights of the unborn fetus. She states that: .".. in the ways that matter from a moral point of view, human fetuses are very un...
  • Singer's Argument And The Assumptions
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    "Famine, Affluence, and Morality" In "Famine, Affluence, and Morality", Peter Singer is trying to argue that "the way people in relatively affluent countries react to a situation... cannot be justified; indeed, ... our moral conceptual scheme needs to be altered and with it, the way of life that has come to be taken for granted in our society" (Singer 230). Peter Singer provides striking examples to show the reader how realistic his arguments are. In this paper, I will briefly give a summary of ...
  • Saroyan's Guilt Of An Immoral Action
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    Morality is, in essence, subjugated by he who defines it. This being the case, morality (defined as right or wrong, good or evil) is malleable as long as it does not impede upon any 'ipso facto virtue'; (Didion). In the essay 'On Morality'; , by Joan Didion, this aspect 'on morality' is composed. This will be utilized to verify that William Saroyan's (author of 'Five Ripe Pears) guilt of an immoral action is conflicting given specified conditions. To begin, 'On Morality'; is an essay of a woman ...
  • Slavery In The Forced Service Economy
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    I thought I'd take this time to reply to the critics of my little essay on distributive justice. -- For Paul Hsieh: -- I'm not quite sure how to take your comments. Some of the time, you seem to be agreeing with me, because you say things like " the forced labor is cleverly concealed" which makes it sound like you agree that even in your counter-example the surgeon is still doing forced labor. But at other points, you appear to be arguing that a different injustice than forced labor is achieving...

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