Through most of history discussions pertaining to the moral aspect of human nature lay in the realm of religion and philosophy. ... For centuries people looked to the religion and philosophy to enhance their understanding of this phenomena and chose the right path to follow. ... There is only a handful of studies on morality involving kids under one year old. ... He makes a strong case for studying origins and evolution of morality with the help of empirical methods. ... Psychological studies lead to a better understanding of human motives and intentions. ...

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The humanist education emphasized the mastery of Latin, moral philosophy, and history. ... The study of moral philosophy gave students a strong foundation in making proper judgments. ... Rhetorical studies taught the students how to present themselves in a knowledgeable and eloquent manner. ... Men trained in humanistic studies were hired to work for despots as chancellors or ambassadors, and also produced propaganda for these rulers. ...

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Aristotle and Niccolo Machiavelli agree that human nature predisposes men to serve their own interests, and that we need government to control our innate desires, and yet the two disagree on the origin of government and its purpose. Aristotle argues that man is political by nature due to speech. Through speech, men develop a common moral determination for what is just and unjust, and naturally form political societies in the acquisition of virtue. Although Aristotle's government operates in the pursuit of human excellence, it is based on an optimistic notion, that men will choose and cont...

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John Dewey and Teaching Morals Webster defines philosophy as "the study of the principles underlying conduct, thought, and the nature of the universe" (Webster's New World Dictionary and Thesaurus, Macmillian: New York, NY, 1999). Dewey understood the subject of philosophy to be the experience and its problems. For Dewey, the method of philosophy was in the assessment of experiences. ... Additionally, Dewey saw philosophy as empirical and critical, a step-by-step way of intelligently assessing experienced values, making judgmental conclusions about these values, and exploring the...

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Organizations have been evolved to help guide or examine the use of engineering method of ethics and many case studies have been reported involving these morals or ethics decisions and or designs. ... The case is particularly useful in structural design, statics and materials studies. ... However, the terms moral philosophy or moral theory would refer to a set of abstract moral principles as appropriately as the term ethics, so it may be more practical to use the words interchangeably. ...

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Academically, however, the term refers not to morality itself but to the field of study, or branch of inquiry, that has morality as its subject matter. In this sense, ethics is equivalent to moral philosophy. ...

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"[The leisurely days are] kind of lazy and jolly, laying off comfortable all day, smoking and fishing, and no books nor study" (24). ... Carol Freedman, a critic published in Philosophy and Literature, states that "what Huck seems to discover by reflecting on Jim and their experiences on the raft is that despite the absence of justification, he cares for Jim too much to turn him in." ...

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However, an equally apt argument can be formulated using Utilitarianism and Kantian moral philosophy to argue against the punishing juveniles as adults. ... Similarly, Jeffrey Fagan, director for the Center for Violence Research and Presentation at Columbia University, in a study of fifteen and sixteen-year-old felons found that minors tried in adult courts had higher rates of recidivism than those tried in juvenile courts for similar crimes (Anonymous 2). ...

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