The characters that Gulliver reacts with reveal Swift's stance on many moral and ethical issues. ... Swift is extremely critical of one's Pride, and chooses to express this flaw in man most often. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This stance is not only compatible with a theological viewpoint, in which God's purpose for mankind cannot be deduced from His creation, but also with a philosophical viewpoint according to which man himself is the ultimate source of knowledge and moral values. ... In this sense, secondly, Kant's critical philosophy is not only an apotheosis of the preceding Western ways of thinking and believing, but forms also (at least one of) the foundations of those intuitions, ideas, beliefs and convictions, which are dominantly present in our time. ...

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They want to keep their hands clean and maintain their moral stance and reputation. ... The emotional brain can be useful to us in making critical decisions, it is capable of processing a wide amount of information on different parallels, and thus can present varying solutions and alternatives to the problem at hand. ...

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Although he never matched the popular and critical success he enjoyed with "Lord of the Flies," he remained a respected and distinguished author for the rest of his life and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. ...

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• Grade Level: High School