This essay plans to highlight why prostitution is favored or why prostitution is not morally wrong while the second part of the essay aims to highlight why prostitution is morally wrong. Finally the essay concludes with an ethical theory relating to prostitution learnt in the course and taking into account my personal view on prostitution. ... A classic example for the above argument is France as prostitution is legal in the country. ... This essay now aims to highlight the arguments that are offered against prostitution and highlighting why prostitution is considered morally wrong. ... One su...

• Word Count: 1655
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As for an example Christians believe in Jesus or God, and as for Muslim they believe in The Prophet Muhammad and the God Aliah. ... More than a few cultures in the essays of the 4 sequences deal with religious faith in their arguments. ... Bennett essay's enlightening me to see that I wasn't the only one to that feel that your religious faith is important in school. ... Shea argument on this essay, to me seemed to be very neutral towards the students and faculty of the campus. ... Denby provide in an essay about the students of Yale University, and their feelings toward a not so rel...

• Word Count: 1384
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

This essay will be based around the ethical perspectives of euthanasia. ... In this essay I will firstly be defining what euthanasia is and how it differentiates from other terms, such as assisted suicide and murder. ... There are 4 segments that come under euthanasia for example voluntary, non-voluntary, active and passive euthanasia. Active euthanasia is when an individual performs an act that directly ends the patient's life, for example a drug overdose may have been imposed in an act of active euthanasia. Whereas passive euthanasia is when the patient has been withdrawn from the s...

• Word Count: 1960
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The essay also assumes that Kantian philosophy is normative and not descriptive in order to lend clarity to the thesis. ... For example, if an agent lied, it would eliminate the concept of truth if lying were a universal maxim. ... Here, a contradiction in the essay may seem apparent to the lay reader but to those versed in Kant's moral philosophy, it is readily dismissed. ... Perhaps an example will clarify: suppose that the agent is a non-Jewish friend of Anne Frank and the Gestapo arrives at the door to determine the location of the Franks. ... While Kant never had to deal with t...

• Word Count: 2143
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This essay is exploring human behaviour both from an individual point of view, as well as considering society as a whole. ... The next step of the essay is to reflect on what course of action is considered to be ethical and how the judgements can be attained. ... The above examples show that it is difficult to identify a mental act called intention. ... An everyday example would be imprisonment of persons who violated the laws of their society. ... How much control, for example, does a person have over his body? ...

• Word Count: 1580
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Machiavelli and Hobbes, in their essays (the Prince by Machiavelli & the Leviathan by Hobbes) focused on studying how people act and how social systems are governed. This essay would first explain Machiavelli's political view on the individual and the states, and then go on to highlight Hobbes' political ideas; then compare and analyze both thinkers' essays. ... He gives an example of the state of nature where men are driven by their desire of survival and avoiding death and pain, using any means necessary to live even if they have to give up their moral principles. ... The s...

• Word Count: 1360
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

This essay is about justice and morality and people's ethical code. ... The point of Polemarchus' justice is a perfect example. ... This essay deliberates the influences on people of the grabbing present of a comfy coverlet ethics coded. ...

• Word Count: 1304
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

ESSAY TWO Retributive theories claim that punishment is justified because, and only because, the wrongdoer deserves it for having done wrong. ... Hart's is perhaps the best example, rightly attempt to incorporate a plurality of reasons for punishment.... The common reaction, for example, upon hearing of Paul Bernardo' s torture and murder of Leslie Mahaffy and the subsequent mutilation of her body, is one of reprobation, outrage, and even revulsion. ... From the wrongdoer's perspective, in those cases where she repents, certain types of sentences may signify to the victim and ...

• Word Count: 2070
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

(For example, enriching the experience of other community members is generally desirable, while harassment and obnoxious behavior is usually not.) ... People will unconsciously emulate those they perceive to be of higher status than themselves: for example, people's accents tend to change to sound like those of the highest-status person in the room. ... Each of those roles also has concrete privileges associated with it, such as, for example, the ability to add and remove users and posts. ... For example, eBay and Slashdot both rely on a user-based status system. ... In both these example...

• Word Count: 1491
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Jewish beliefs, for example, have been with me throughout my life influencing my opinions. ... People such as Zora Neale Hurston, in the essay "How It Feels to be Colored me" believe religion to be a necessity and it should be a serious value to people all over the world. ... According to the author, Ronald Dworkin, of the essay, "Life Is Sacred: That's the easy Part,"" abortion has many things to do with freedom of religion. ...

• Word Count: 2327
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

They would use examples such as September 11. ... The rest of this essay will display the main argument in which one would use to justify abortion and in turn, one of the major arguments against abortion. ...

• Word Count: 1404
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Catcher in the Rye Context essay In order the to fully understand the "catcher in the rye" the analysis of all surrounding aspects of the main character's life must be taken into consideration. ... This being an important example of the relevance if setting as the reason for Holden's continual shifting of school is his lack of effort and application, and as Holden is further pushed away sent to school after school shielded from any love he becomes further independent and dwells on his negative thoughts alone. Holden secretly hates his peers; an example of this is his constant cri...

• Word Count: 1661
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She uses an example about a world famous violinist. ... Thomson's example can be applied to cases of rape, where the potential mother was forced to have intercourse against her will. ... Harrison puts another example to the abortion debate forward. ... In the article, "Why Abortion is Immoral,"" Marquis concludes that "This essay sets out an argument that claims to show that abortion is seriously immoral, that it is in the same moral category as killing an innocent adult human being- The main reasons that backup his argument are, that it is wrong to kill. ... However, it doesn'...

• Word Count: 2086
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The topic abortion covers a wide range of aspects, in this essay, two groups will be presented. ... For example, if a woman becomes pregnant due to committing adultery or purely being careless, she cannot abort her child simply to avoid shame or hide her sin. ... For example, if a child has serious deformities, some may say the pregnancy can be terminated; however this must be done before the soul is breathed into the child ( first 120 days or four months). ... For example in the UK, the 1967 Abortion Act was introduced with the aim of reducing the risks to women of unsafe abortion practices a...

• Word Count: 2239
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

From what we learn of him in Plato does Socrates offer a philosophy that is genuinely progressive and radical in its wish to reform the society of the day? Following the Socratic model what role, if any, could philosophy play in addressing political and moral problems of our times? In this essay...

• Word Count: 1394
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Arpaly offers a contrasting viewpoint to Bennett's in her essay "Moral Worth" where she essentially argues that emotion -not intellect- is the driving force behind moral reasoning and, to a further extent, individual freedom. ... Despite Jim's status as a runaway slave, he is really the only adult in the novel who provided a positive, respectable example for Huck to follow. ...

• Word Count: 1467
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

For the duration of this essay, "egoism" and "ethical egoism" will refer to the above definition, and "altruism" will refer to the opinion that one should always act in a way that will benefit others. ... Take for example the custom of giving gifts during the holidays. ... It is possible for altruism to be effective, as is evident in the Christmas present example; all we have to do is tell people how to help us. ...

• Word Count: 2351
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The topic of my essay will be to develop a balance between opposing moral theories. ... This consent can be given expressly or tacitly through a preordained system, an example of this might be that if one person kills another person, who has not given consent of any kind, then they are expressing tacit consent to being killed. ...

• Word Count: 2005
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I know that may a little too much information, but with what I am going through in my personal life, it would have been almost impossible not to express those thoughts in this personal essay. ... I was taken aback by this negative value that she apparently has observed in my behaviors over the years, she gave me countless examples of times when people had did hurtful things, and I had succeeded in "getting them back". ...

• Word Count: 1868
• Approx Pages: 7