non moral'-out of the scope of morality altogether. ... These are 4 main aspects related to the application of morality: a.Religion morality-concerned with human beings in relationship to the supernatural being(s). ... Law: Natural moral laws prescribe how human beings in nature should/ought to behave or not to behave. E.g.: Homosexuality- unnatural' or against the laws of nature'. ... Morality need not have a religious basis. ...

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Someone said: "Morality is the concept of nature versus nurture." Someone also said: "Morality is Culturally Relative." ... Stephen Layman said: "Morality Does Need Religion." ... Also, morality was not an emergent phenomenon because God has always been in existence and God guides" morality. In our government, Members of our government in positions of authority decide everything in our lives in the form of laws which determine our behavior. ...

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How can one define morality? ... Morality is the basis in which man judges himself. ... Morality has greatly evolved ever since the first humans roamed Earth. ... One large stepping stone in the world of morality came about in around 1800 B.C. when a king created a set of laws that everyone was to follow. ... With the breaking of rules came cruel punishments and these sets of laws was to make for a better society. ...

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One can only help to question if the current volume of people that inhabit the planet see morality in a narrow state or through a broad spectrum. ... They live under different ethics and see morality in a different way other than the one we are traditionally use too. ... Could our government's laws be ethically wrong? ... Why do we constantly follow the government's laws since a young age if they are tainted with possible corruption? ...

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Where does morality come from? ... Who decides on what morality we follow? ... One belief is about Cultural relativism, in accordance with the source of morality, is the ideology that each culture has its own source of morality and therefore each culture has its own particular morality. ... This theory of the "master" and the "slave" morality is an idea by Nietzsche. ... Euthyphro's response to this is that it doesn't matter because his father murdered and that is against the law. ...

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However, a moral law must be valid for everyone. ... If morality is based on such principle, it would differ among people and wills of people would contradict. ... Because such ideas cannot be known, morality can no longer be depended on such principles. ... Because morality is no longer related with objects, our satisfaction from them, there is no things we must do in order to reach them. ... Thus, such innate ideas cannot be known because they cannot be represented in space and time and morality cannot be based on them. ...

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Normative law is the oldest code of law known to civilization. ... ESSAY 2 The goal of enforcing law is to protect morality, discover the truth, and ensure ethical conduct among society so surely there should be some clear relationships between law and justice, law and morality, and law and truth. ... The relationship between law and morality is an ever-thickening one these days. Morality is defined as society's definition of what is right and what is wrong. ... Showmanship and salesmanship take priority over truth, morality and justice for all. ...

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Morality is what decides right from wrong in our daily lives. ... He believed that using, lying, stealing and the breaking of any and all laws was morally wrong and you simply should not go against them. ... But morality cannot be different in that way. ... Americans have a different set of laws then any in other countries. What is moral and immoral depends on the person and no matter how universal a law could be, nothing is going to change it....

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After later reading the chapters on cultural relativism and ethnocentrism, it became clear; morality is relative. ... Should I consider the treatment of the Untouchables "ok" because of the relativity of morality? ... But until generations of Indians grow up with these new laws, I believe tradition will override change. ... Though honor killing is not legal, the culture has an unwritten law of silence for men who are guilty of killing a female family member. ... Not if you consider the relativity of morality. ...

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Kant's theory of morality seems to function as the most feasible in determining one's duty in a moral situation. ... But despite these exceptions, the process Kant describes of converting maxims to universal laws to test their moral permissibility serves, in general, as a useful guide to and system of ethics and morality. ... Kant truly does not look to the consequences of an action to see whether the action is morally permissible, but rather to the morality of the action itself. Kant assumes that universal morality is inherent in being, thus avoiding ...

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I advocate that justice can be served to morality, even if the consequences of an action are dismissed. ... The good intent determined the morality of the action and not the result. ... Kant asserts that one's will must only act upon the "universal law," which is void of human feeling and emotion. ... Kant's first formulation states that you should "act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should be a universal law" (886). ... Thus, justice can be served to morality without considering the results. ...

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The morality of war is hard to determine. ... You can never truly determine the morality of something. ... Morality needs to be based on what is right or wrong for the majority of society. ... If society makes the laws, then is everything accepted by society lawful? ... As I stated in my introduction, the morality of war is hard to determine. ...

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Kant went on to say that conformity of actions to universal law as such should alone serve the will as its principle. Kants conclusion of morality is I ought never act except in such a way that I can also will that my maxim should become a universal law. ... Morality is different. ... Morality must be the same way that laws are in society. ... Hegel does a better job of requiring that moral people must follow laws and fulfill contract agreements, yet still does nothing in the way of bridging the morality gap. ...

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The will that makes the categorical imperative its law merely reaffirms its independence of everything except law in general. ... Morality is the natural condition of a free will. ... In Kant's language, it does not explain "the interest attaching to the ideas of morality." ... Kant claims his categorical imperative is the only principle of morality (the only categorical imperative), we are entitled to expect that it determine the principles of morality uniquely. ... But are all moral laws imperatives? ...

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This essay is about justice and morality and people's ethical code. ... He also believed that the just actions is the obedience to the law should be met. Morality is a necessity in today's world if you don't have it the world would be in total chaos. ... I's tapering the type since ethics and morality is an individual made idea understood in grammatical, the usage of which tell apart person from additional cell or creatures. ...

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He divides morality into two parts, master morality and slave morality. ... The slave morality is that of presumably weaker or lesser people. He states that master morality dismisses and casts out many people. He compares the morality of the Christian church with master morality. ... Simone de Beauvior composed Freedom and Morality. ...

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The goal of the Grounding or the Metaphysics of Morals is to establish the "supreme principle of morality". ... Morality requires us to separate our rationality from our nature and act solely on the basis of logical principles. ... A secure understanding of morality must be based on "pure" concepts of reason. ... When one thinks of what they ought to do they base their reason in their morality, moral laws. Kant's moral law is reason and moral laws are suppose to be undertaken for the sake of morality alone; we are suppose to have a pure motivation and not self-interested. ...

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Ethics and Law Ethics are what define whether a law is good or bad. ... Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all."" ... "A just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law." ... Throw away morality and justice, and people will do the right thing. ...

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To have a quick overview of the main differences before going in depth, I would like to refer to the table below: Utilitarianism Kant's Theory Only consequences matter Consequences do not matter Morality is closely connected to desire/pleasure Morality is based on reason No absolute rules (act) Morality provides absolute rules Motives and intentions do not matter Intentions are of highest importance Persons are not intrinsically valuable Persons have intrinsic worth Morality is an empirical matter (what we have learned by experience) Morality is not empirical, it is rational Acc...

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This action brought about many changes to the medical field such as the laws pertaining to voluntary participation in medical research, the use of these cells in new medical research where other cells have failed, and bringing to light the morality of not properly informing the people that are going into medical research. ... Due to what had happened to Henrietta Lacks in the 50s the laws pertaining to participation in medical research has changed. ... There are many consequences if doctors or medical personal ignore these laws. ... Due to what happened with Henrietta, morality has now become ...

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The categorical imperative states; act only on that maxim which can become a universal law. ... This maxim isn't able to be a categorical imperative because it cannot be a universal law. ... We ought to do it because it has the ability to be a universal law. ... The morality of our actions does not depend upon their outcome. ... The morality of our actions then must be assessed by the motivation behind it. ...

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Huck Finn's Conflict: Laws of Society vs. Laws of the River There are many people who influence our lives and what we believe. ... Huck is slowly casting away of the laws of society for those of the river. ... This is also a major point in Huck's constant battle with his own sense of morality. ...

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People feel that they have the upper hand in knowledge when it comes to morality. ... The reason why priest and ministers are thought of in this way is not because they are wiser; it is because they have better and deeper reasoning with morality than most people. ... The Theory of Natural Law is what the history of Christian thought goes toward. ... Secondly, this theory does not only describe how laws of nature are, but how they ought to be also. ... The third and final main part of the Theory of Natural Law is the question of moral knowledge. ...

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Also, he believes that morality requires a standard that will not only regulate the inadequacies of absolute justice but be also an idea of moral progress. Since absolute justice is abstract in nature, in the real world, it must be supplemented with equity, which corrects and modifies laws of justice where it falls short. When it comes to the purpose or will of morality, Aristotle mentions two factors: reason stimulated to act by desire, or desire guided and controlled by understanding. ...

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He is an awesome and loving God that has given us only ten rules/laws to live by. ... This is the "good" of ethics and morality. 1. ... The laws of God and man really seem to run parallel, as to the ethics and morality of living within the confines of our universe. ... To sum this all up ethics, with morality is doing a good thing for all people. ...

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