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  • Character Values Morals And Integrity
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    Morals, character, integrity, what do these words mean... actually, the question is, do you have them. A man named Dwight Moody once said, "Character is what you are in the dark". You cannot see your morals, character, or integrity, these are only shown as your values. Someone could only show their own values, which are very important to themselves and everyone else. Integrity is the firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values. The way you show your integrity, character, and ...
  • Knowing Moral Values
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    CHAPTER CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: THE CHALLENGE AND THE MODEL Concern for the values and morals of the young is an enduring adult preoccupation. Down through recorded history, this worry about the character of the younger generation is evident. Concern, however, has never been enough to ensure that the young possess the type of character that can sustain the individual and society. Some societies have failed to transmit their values to the young, and this has often meant their swift decline. The ru...
  • Economists Fondness For Freedom
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    By EDWARD L. GLAESER Edward L. Glaeser is an economics professor at Harvard and the author of the forthcoming book "Triumph of the City". Economists often present a cold public persona, emphasizing dollars and sense over the rousing rhetoric of moral argument. But by appearing as technocrats who seem concerned only with the bottom line, we allow ourselves to be portrayed as people without a sense of right and wrong. Two weeks ago, I wrote about ethics and economics, calling for appropriate steps...
  • Types Of Values Our Children
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    CENSORSHIP Starting in book 2 from 376d and on into book 3 of The Republic, Socrates and Adeimantus discuss the type of education the young guardians, the future rulers and protectors of the city should receive. They feel that the young men should be strong, quick, courageous and educated. They agree that they should receive a physical education for their bodies and an education in music and poetry for their souls. Unlike physical training, an education in music and poetry can begin at a very yo...
  • Good Morals And Values
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    Morality: An essential to life A Russian born American science-fiction writer and biochemist once quoted, "Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right". This statement generates a series of controversial questions. What is right? How do morals affect people and society in which we live? Does everyone have specific morals by which they try to live their life? How does someone realize what their morals are? What are morals? These questions cannot be truthfully answered beca...
  • Family Unity And Moral Values
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    Family Unity and Moral Values The increase in the number of divorces and the decrease in the number of marriages does not reflect a breakdown of the family unit in the United Statesand the decay of moral values. 'I don't think divorce is as big of problem as politicians make it out to be. Yes, many couples get divorced, but their children can still have stability and grow up to be good people. ' (Price) Thebreakdown of the family unit in the United States and the decay of moral values are due to...
  • Action's Intrinsic Moral Value
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    Kant: The Humanity Formula "Few formulas in philosophy have been so widely accepted and variously interpreted as Kant's injunction to treat humanity as an end in itself" (Hill, 38). Immanuel Kant's views, as elucidated in his book, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, are based on the belief that "people count" by prohibiting actions which exploit other individuals in order for self-prosperity or altruistic ends. Ethics then, are confirmed by the dignity and worth of the rational agency of e...
  • Nietzsche's Favourite Examples Of Decadent Values
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    Nietzsche's Revaluation of All Values In the nineteenth century, popular philosophy - particularly the Hegelian dialectic - professed that mankind was developing in an upward direction, becoming more angelic as it were. Man's moral laws were more advanced, as support for democracy and equal rights were beginning to become popular. However, Friedrich Nietzsche believed that mankind was entering a downward spiral towards complete decadence. Modern man, with its "advanced" morality, was, in truth, ...
  • Values Of Western Society
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    The Fall of Western Civilization A new revolution is required- a Western revolution. The values of Western civilization are lost, it's morals murdered and it's society turned sour. Something has changed. Currently, man is absorbing empty, worthless material. This idea of "pop culture" has been injected into the Western man. His values and morals have depreciated greatly. He has entered a black hole filled with expendable amounts of junk. In it, he is so severely sedated with endless amounts of i...
  • Buffy The Vampire Slayer
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    With Buffy the Vampire Slayer taking the Australian television market by storm, it is becoming increasingly obvious that Buffy does more than just kick vampire butt. Star Sarah Michelle Gellar not only entertains teens nation wide, but also questions morals and values - the same values that have been plaguing the gothic genre since Bram Stoker's Dracula - and socialists with the majority of young Australians' lives. Popular culture is becoming increasingly consumed by a moralistic tone, and Buff...
  • 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...
  • Equality And Virtue In Life
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    Let's take another example: the accident which happened to Susan B. Anthony in 1872. She went to the polls in Rochester, NY. But she was arrested and fined 1000$. She refused to pay them. She cited the 14 Amendments. It was adopted in 1868. The goal of it was to achieve equality of the races and sexual equality before the Law. It states:" All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction therefore are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they ...
  • Questions About Aesthetic Value
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    Kant defined aesthetic as both, "the analysis of taste and the analysis of sensible cognition or intuition" (1). Aesthesis, means "sensation", the Greeks made a distinction between aesthesis autophues (natural sensation) and aesthesis epistemonike (acquired sensation) (1). We may say that aesthetics is both the study of aesthetic objects and of the specific and subjective reactions of observers, readers, or audiences to the work of art. Aesthetics is necessarily interdisciplinary and may be inte...
  • My Own Morals And Values
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    Moral or Immoral Would a just man steal This is a dilemma. The basic question that this boils down to is if people are good merely for the reputation or for actual moral values that they might have I believe a truly good person would not steal for the latter, or from their own values. This is based on the idea that not all-good deeds are rewarded. It is true that if you are never given credit for doing good deeds, you might start to tire of doing them. I do not believe that the person would nece...
  • Morality's Creation Of Values
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    On Nietzsche I think that the three questions that I will try to find answers are highly interconnected with each other and because of this reason, I will not answer them separately. I will be answering them without order. First of all, from my interpretation of Nietzsche, modern humanity did not invent the idea of God. Rather the God had a functional role from his point of view. There is no doubt that, modern humanity had the idea of God, but in my opinion, this idea was like a heritage to the ...
  • Set Of Values And Morals
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    "Morality is the understanding of the way of life. It is generally recognized that intelligence is the commodity that gives humanity power over all" (Atkinson 1). What is not understood is the dependence of this facility on a foundation of unquestioned values and morals. Human values, values learned, understanding values and moral reasoning only emphasize. Without them no life can exist. ("A Study Of Our Decline". web). In human's experience and upbringing grow the set of values given at birth. ...
  • Jessie's Moral Values
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    Adolescent literature often presents values, which are considered controversial. These values, which frequently influence the thoughts and actions of their readers, can be split into the three broad categories of personal, social and moral values. They include values such as friendship, love, loyalty and honesty. Many texts these days contain some form of controversial values, which often force their reader to question what message is being portrayed. The movie "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's S...

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