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  • Part In The Vivisection
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    Changing Times versus Changing People It has been said that while times change, people do not. From my past experiences, and from things that I have learned throughout the years, I have to agree with the previous statement. I feel that the morality of a person almost always rules when it comes to making serious and important decisions. Different time periods can alter ones thinking in certain situations to an extent. For example, in The Sea and Poison, Nobu Ueda had moved to Manchuria with her n...
  • Morals Of Your Particular Life Need
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    The Problem with Religion and Morals The likes of many philosophers including St. Anselm, Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine have written that organized religion is the only source of human beings leading a moral life. One of the defenses of organized religion is that it is the basis of society's morals and therefore it is necessary to prevent social barbarism. This statement is utterly untrue, for there are many open-minded families, throughout the world who live perfectly good lives, with perfec...
  • Sympathy As A Fundamental Human Feeling
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    Assays On David Hume's an Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals Hume was the first thinker to point out the implications of the 'representative theory of perception. ' He had inherited this theory from both his rationalist and empiricist predecessors. According to this view, when one says that he / she perceives something such as an apple, what it actually means is that the one has in the mind a mental idea or image or impression. Such a datum is an internal, mental, subjective representat...
  • Utilitarian Course Of Action
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    THEORY -- The theory of Utilitarianism states that actions should be judged as right or wrong depending on whether they cause more happiness or unhappiness. It weighs the rightness and wrongness of an action based on consequences of that action. PRINCIPLES -- (1) CONSEQUENCE PRINCIPLE: Actions are to be judged right or wrong mainly by their own consequences. Nothing else matters. Right actions are those that have the best consequences. -No act is right in and of it self. -No act is wrong in and ...
  • Conflict Between His Sympathies And Moral Principles
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    The Issue between Bennett and Hallie In Jonathan Bennett's The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn, he chooses 3 people one fictional the other two real, and analyzes how they handle the conflict between their own sympathies and the morals of their society at that place in time. He chose Huckleberry Finn, Nazi S.S. leader Heinrich Himmler, and Calvinist Jonathan Edwards. Bennett goes on in his article stating that one is wrong or bad if they let their morals over run their sympathies when they feel c...
  • Hume's Ethical Theory
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    Hume vs. Kant Many different philosophers have their own way of looking at not only the world, but society as a whole. This is clearly seen with the two philosopher's Kant and Hume. Though totally different styles of philosophizing and looking at an ethical theory, it is not to say that one's theory is better or more justified than the other. It is perhaps a different point of view or another opinion to take in. We must not directly rule out either Hume or Kant because both of their ethical theo...
  • Balancing Of Pleasure And Pain
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    Nor is life a spectator sport. It is a full contact event requiring your action and participation. You are part of 'Team Humanity' and you need to give it your all. Do what you love to do (as long as it does not hurt others) with passion and enjoyment and you will no doubt do it well. Learn to balance your life and share your passion and enjoyment with others, in particular, those you care about most. Sharing your life interests with others will enrich them as well if you believe and feel passio...
  • Our Feelings Towards A Given Situation
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    Can Feelings Play A Role In Moral Reasoning The discussion of how feelings affect morality is quite prevalent in both David Hume and Immanuel Kant's works. While each philosopher touches on the topic of feelings, both men differ in their outlook on the role feelings play in our moral lives. While David Hume, seemed to feel that the human mind was nothing more then a series of sensations and feelings, Immanuel Kant argued that there exists more to our minds than just these feelings. David Hume ba...
  • Hume's Moral Theory
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    Does Hume underestimate the importance of reason in moral thinking reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions. Hume's moral theory arises out of his belief that reason alone can never cause action. Action is caused by desires or feelings and as reason alone can never cause action, morality is rooted in our feelings. It is necessary, therefore, to look at precisely what arguments he presents in favour of his view of reason with regard to moral thinking, whilst also examining the id...
  • Place In Morality For Reason And Sentiment
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    In Appendix I., Concerning Moral Sentiment, David Hume looks to find a place in morality for reason, and sentiment. Through, five principles he ultimately concludes that reason has no place within the concept of morality, but rather is something that can only assist sentiment in matters concerning morality. And while reason can be true or false, those truths or falsities apply to facts, not to morality. He then argues morals are the direct result of sentiment, or the inner feeling within a human...
  • Moral Judgments
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    'Moral judgments are nothing more than expressions of personal preference. While there is some point to arguing about questions of fact, moral arguments are a waste of time. The only thing at issue is what people like or don't like'. I have probably read this statement about a million times and still do not have any qualms against it. Moral judgments are typically based on your upbringing, your likes, your religion (or non-religion), and numerous other aspects that make up your personality. Thos...
  • Moral Conviction
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    Moral conviction is something that everyone should have, it is inherent, or at least that is the assumption. In the book, "A Case for Christianity", by C.S. Lewis, Lewis argues that it is part of the "Moral Law". Not the part that will make you forget about yourself and help someone else even though it might put you in danger, but rather the part that makes you feel bad when you have wronged another person or broken your own moral code. That is just it though, you set your own moral code, not an...
  • Different Morals And Values And Society
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    Morals I strongly believe that some acts are morally right and others morally wrong. Though in society today I find many different people with many different opinions on this some issues. The way someone was raised or the experiences they have faced could be what has molded these beliefs. The differences between right and wrong are not always the same in each person's head and this is where we face controversy. Morals differ from person to person resulting in confrontations dealing with morality...
  • Misfit's Moral Dilemma
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    Of the two stories I read, one being The Storm by Kate Chopin and the other being A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor, I found that each had characters with moral dilemmas. In both, the setting played a role in these dilemmas but in different ways. In The Storm, the bad weather was the set-off to and unpredicted intimacy while in A Good Man Is Hard To Find, the setting seems to be focused around a family's vacation and their encounter with a criminal. In the following paragraphs, I w...
  • Ethical Absolutism And Relativism
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    Absolutism And Relativism Absolutism Absolutism And Relativism Essay, Research Paper Absolutism and relativism are two extreme ethical approaches to reality. While they are both valid and supported by facts, they are very contrasting in their views. Values are what a person cares about and thinks is worthwhile. For example, values can include life, love, religious faith, freedom, relationships, health, justice, education, family and many other things. Usually these values are what provides the p...

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