Essays Tagged: "morally"

The ethics of Euthanasia

ia involves taking deliberate action to cause a death.Euthanasia has been accepted both legally and morally in various forms in many societies. In ancient Greece and Rome it was permissible in some si ... ssible in some situations to help others die.With the rise of organized religion, euthanasia became morally and ethically abhorrent. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all hold human life sacred and con ...

(2 pages) 225 0 4.2 Sep/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Euthenasia

Frankenstein

ed by people and revered since the beginning of time. Yet even today not one person can say what is morally right. It is a matter of opinion. It was Dr.Victor Frankenstein's opinion that it was alrigh ... l should the doctor make a second? With the knowledge at hand, to Dr.Frankenstein, it is not at all morally correct to bring another monster into the world.Looking at this probelm with his family in m ...

(3 pages) 155 0 4.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

How Can We Tell What Is Good Or Bad?

Good Or Bad?To tell what is good or bad, a person needs to consider what he or she considers to be morally sound and immoral. A persons morals are taught by their parents and from the society from wh ... bad, but how to obtain money and power. Money and power can dilute the values of what people judge morally right. While the moral way of living would be to work a normal forty hour week to earn incom ...

(2 pages) 102 1 3.7 Apr/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Rawls "Veil of Ignorance"

the adaptation of two fundamental principles of justice which would, in turn, guarantee a just and morally acceptable society. The first principle guarantees the right of each person to have the most ...

(3 pages) 160 0 4.7 Apr/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Was Truman morally and militarily justified in dropping two Atomic Bombs on Japan?

r telling the truth. I believe President Truman's decision to use the atomic bombs on Japan was not morally nor militarily justified.After Germany and Italy surrendered in May of 1945 and ended World ... my essay, the decision to drop the atomic bomb was a wrong one. It was not militarily justified nor morally justified.

(5 pages) 240 1 3.4 Mar/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Rogerian Argument - handguns in US

e question of whether or not handguns should be legal to allcitizens has haunted our society. Is it morally right for anyone to carry a gun and shoot itwhen they feel it to be necessary? Doesn't the s ...

(2 pages) 200 1 4.1 Feb/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government > United Nations

Cost of your diet

tern world has become a way of life for us. Alienation from the food system has blinded many people morally to the costs of their diet. Diet plays an absolute role in our culture socially, economicall ...

(6 pages) 419 1 4.2 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Classification System in California's Prisons

r later, and that it is the job of an institution to try to send them out physically, mentally, and morally better than they were when they entered.Research and study in the fields of medicine, psycho ...

(6 pages) 358 4 4.0 Apr/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Illustrate Shakespeare's Understanding Of Stagecraft In Titus Andronicus Act I

or the throne. Saturninus declares that he is the first born, whereas Bassianus declares that he is morally superior. Aloft, Marcus holds up the crown as a symbol of the immense power. However, he dec ...

(4 pages) 52 1 3.8 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

This is an argument analysis concerning the issue of euthanasia.

Argument Reconstruction1.If a right creates a net benefit to society and is not morally incorrect, then it should be made legal. (IM; Oracle: Common Knowledge)2.Voluntary euthanasi ...

(9 pages) 583 1 4.5 Apr/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

Moral responsibility in The great Gatsby

Moral Responsibility in GatsbyBang! Gatsby's dead! George Wilson shot Gatsby! However, who is morally responsible for killing Gatsby? The obvious answer would be George since he pulled the trigg ... re also partly responsible. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tom, Daisy, and George are morally responsible for the death of Gatsby.Tom, because of his tattling on Gatsby, can be morally b ...

(2 pages) 78 0 4.1 Oct/1994

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

TERRORISTS: TO DESTROY OR TO NOT DESTROY?

ilemma starts with the fact that these terrorists were doing what they believed to be ethically and morally right. They reasoned that by destroying a major center of American business they were obeyin ... hen those in authority must determine the fate of those who took thousands of innocent lives. Is it morally right to repay evil for evil? Some would reason that the Bible does say "an eye for an eye", ...

(5 pages) 226 0 3.7 Apr/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security

Phoniness, The True Face And The False Face in "Cather in the Rye" by Salinger

J.D. Salinger'snovel The Catcher in the Rye.Holden Caulfield, a typical teenager in the 50's with amorally loose, rude and obscene personality. However, his rudeness isjust a mask that he uses to cov ...

(2 pages) 98 0 4.1 Dec/1996

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Frankenstein (by Mary Shelley) and morality

ed by people and revered since the beginning of time. Yet even today not one person can say what is morally right. It is a matter of opinion. It was Dr.Victor Frankenstein's opinion that it was alrigh ... l should the doctor make a second? With the knowledge at hand, to Dr.Frankenstein, it is not at all morally correct to bring another monster into the world.Looking at this probelm with his family in m ...

(3 pages) 140 0 4.7 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Characteristic of Mistriss Hibbons in "The Scarlet Letter" by Nahaniel Hawthorne

Evil can be defined as, 'That which is the reverse of good, physically or morally; whatever is censurable painful, disastrous, or undesirable.' In the novel'The Scarlet Lette ...

(3 pages) 32 0 5.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Capital Punishment

ral crimes. There is a big controversy over capital punishment whether or not it works, or if it is morally right. People have been using "an eye for an eye, a life for a life" regularly for centuries ... n times. The moral dilemma that capital punishment installs provides another obstacle to an already morally challenged society. Capital punishment lowers the value of human life as seen by the general ...

(7 pages) 311 4 4.4 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Tower of Babel. A look at Robert Louis Stevenson's work

alism, and with persistence and much sweat, it has been realized that these practices of racism are morally incorrect, and that the mentality of the public must be subjugated to reprogramming. Robert ... create new novels showing racialism as the corrupt disease that it is and reveal that racialism is morally and ethically wrong. Only then will our society be on the way to a cure of the curse that ha ...

(4 pages) 53 0 3.4 Feb/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Revenge, is it morally justified? Refers to The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

g other countries, and even the ordinary people, like us, take revenge on smaller issues. But is it morally justified? The answer to this question is largely depends on whom you ask, and it may vary a ... to have an innocent man imprisoned for a whole life time. I think that in this case revenge is very morally justified, because for a man such as Villefort, who was willing to put an innocent man in pr ...

(4 pages) 84 3 4.5 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Utilitarianism, Principles of Mill's utilitarianism with application to "Crime and Punishment" well-organized and good grip on Mill's theory

litarianism would be outraged at Raskolnikov's claim that murdering the old woman can be considered morally right. Raskolnikov arbitrarily leaves out some necessary considerations in his moral "equati ... principles work together and serve as criteria for whether or not a utilitarian can deem an action morally right. First, the theory of right action argues that the morally right decision is the one w ...

(7 pages) 274 0 3.8 Apr/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

Medical ethics. Refers to A.J Ayres criteria

I would isolate in describint what medical ethics is up to. I call this structuring the issues. The morally relevant strands of a complex situation are based out.'(Clouser pp 385) The advice of the ex ... ther hand, the situational ethicisit would argue that the perspectives of the mother cannot be more morally justified than that of society. A. J. Ayres would argue that the perspective of the mother i ...

(11 pages) 300 1 4.7 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics