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  • Churchs Universal Natural Law
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    Nietzsche: morality; How ought I to be Nietzsche abhorred all morality; he felt it is fodder for the mindless masses (the herd). It deadens and destroys the individual, condemns creativity, and gives man no credit to make choices. It assumes man can not know what to do, so it lays down pre-made decisions for him to mindlessly follow. It ignores the nature of human instinct and stifles the growth of mankind. Moralists and philosophers both sought an order for the universe and a basis on which to ...
  • Sade's Image Of Man's Nature
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    Into the Abyss Marquis de Sade and the Enlightenment We are no guiltier in following the primitive impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her flood or the sea for her waves" - La Mettrie The eighteenth century embraced a secularized France in which the idea of utility, and not of salvation, were the principles by which one lived. Nature and reason in many ways replaced God. What this change left however, was a vacuum for the motive of morality in society. What would compel men to behave if...
  • Moral Judgement And Self Intended Limitations
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    Born To Be Good Over the entire human existence, human nature has been based on ones own survival. The minute a human life enters the world, they are born with the most purity and innocents that they will ever have. As a human baby grows to learn more about life they are introduce to the most important athourity that they will ever know. They learn to respect and follow the laws that these athourity figures set because these law enforcers are there parents which gave them there life to begain wi...
  • Self Interest
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    J. Dylan Beazley teacher: T. Parrish mid-term 03/05/01 Justice is harder to maintain than injustice, which is what good men must strive for, regardless of whether they could be unjust and still be rewarded. Justice is a form of goodness. Justice is a virtue, a human excellence. If a man thinks that he would be able to steel a loaf of bread and get a way with it, he might, but he would not be just. "The soul of an individual consists of three basic element or faculties: reason, sprit (passion), a...
  • Goodness Of Other People
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    What is common in Locke, Hobbes and Rousseau is state of nature. In the state of nature all people are equal - although they have different talents they are equal, because having different talents doesn't prevent equality - and have same rights but in time they try to command each other and make domination upon them. Hobbes associate this desire with the effort to dispel the insecurity which is caused by equality between people. According to his opinion, if two people desire the same thing that ...
  • 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...
  • Hobbes Philosophy Moral Rules Society
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    Born during a period of medieval philosophy, Thomas Hobbes developed a new way of thinking. He perfected his moral and political theories in his controversial book Leviathan, written in 1651. In his introduction, Hobbes describes the state of nature as an organism analogous to a large person (p. 42). He advises that people should look into themselves to see the nature of humanity. In his quote", The passions that incline men to peace, are fear of death; desire of such things as are necessary to ...
  • Moral Duty And Virtue
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    ABSTRACT: In what follows I examine the following question: does it make a difference in moral psychology whether one adopts Aristotle's ordinary or Kant's revisionist definition of virtue as habit? Points of commensurability and critical comparison are provided by Kant's attempt to refute Aristotle's definition of virtue as a mean and by the moral problems of ignorance (I don't know what I ought to do) and weakness (I don't do what I know I ought to do). These two problems are essential topics ...
  • Whole Basis Of Moral Living To Aristotle
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    Why be moral? Aristotle Aristotle basis of morality centers around what people fundamentally desire. Through his studies he found objects just and wealth and honors to be inadequate to human desires. He said that the ultimate goal for people should be self-sufficient, final, and attainable. In stating this he goes on to say that happiness is the only goal that meets all three of these requirements. Through this investigation it becomes clear that the whole basis of moral living to Aristotle is t...
  • Idea Of Morals And Values
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    Excerpt from "The Immorality of Morals and the Future of Amorality" Most authors seem to promote one or the other of two functions for morality, internal cohesion and external threat. However morality served both equally well. In Darwinism, Dominance and Democracy by Somit and Peterson, the authors state, 'Humans are social primates, closely (almost embarrassingly) akin genetically to the chimpanzees and only slightly less so to the gorillas. Working over at least 10 million years, natural selec...
  • Since The Act Utilitarian Judges Morality
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    PART B- IS FEMINISM A HARMFUL IDEOLOGY Describe two central moral issues. In Issue 4, "Is Feminism a Harmful Ideology" I believe that the two central moral issues to this debate are as follows: (1) Is it immoral to infringe upon individual liberty (even if some other good can come of it) (2) Is it immoral to discriminate based on sex (even if there are innate differences, which are relevant to the situation) What makes these distinctly moral issues, as opposed to legal, religious, or socio-polit...
  • Corrupt Moral Sense
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    In "The Mysterious Stranger" Mark Twain portrays a society so dependent on outside sources for guidance that the majority of Eseldorf's citizens do not have independent thought. This reliance is what eventually ruins many of the resident's lives and Satan merely serves to elucidate their foolish behavior. Though it is a much more modern time and setting, "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg", is the same idea in a more modern time and setting. The inhabitants of Hadleyburg are not without corrupti...
  • Impact Of Nietzsche's Critique Of Slave Moralities
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    Nietzsche's contribution to ethics has been profound, offering a cynical and original take on the approach to answering the abstract question of the nature of morality. His theories stem predominantly from his views on perspectivism, the idea that all truths is "truth" within a particular perspective; an extreme case of pluralism. Therefore nietzsche viewed people as being composed of a myriad of perspectives, with no one view being any nearer truth than the next. He felt that our beliefs are ne...
  • O Enquiry Concerning The Principles Of Morals
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    David Hume (1711-1776). Edinburgh University: entered at 12; left at 14 or 15. Pressed to study law, but found it distasteful so spent time reading letters. Nervous breakdown in 1729: took several years to recover. 1734: reached turning point in his life, went to France for three years. Treatise of Human Nature (1739); three books. Objects of awareness o All objects are either "impressions", data of sensation or of internal consciousness, or "ideas", which are created by the combination of impre...

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