This essay will show and compare both these positions corresponding to the differences and similarities of their conclusions and their reasoning used to reach those conclusions. ... With this end goal comes rights, animal rights, like civil rights need reasoning and advocates whom are willing to change their methods of thinking patterns and put forward views that have sound reasoning and principals that allows others to recognize there is an injustice and changing what has become accepted. ... The use of civil rights, utilitarianism, specieism, inherent values and contractarianism as lines ...

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"What's the dirtiest thing there is?" As proposed by a character in Ghoulding's Lord of the Flies, perhaps no one can faithfully answer this question quite as well as Ghoulding himself. In Lord of the Flies, Ghoulding answers this question through his symbolic story of human conflict. The deeper m...

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I believe that as human beings, it is our responsibility to keep our genetic line strong and pure. ... In my reasoning, I do not accommodate any belief systems that are strange or exotic from my perspective. ... These pitfalls make us think that our reasoning and arguments are the best when they are not. ...

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According to the dictionary, religion is a noun defined as the quest for the values of the ideal life. The above definition is vast and general, allowing people from all cultures to interrupt it differently. There is not a single path to follow to lead an ideal life, only your personal beliefs and...

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On many accounts this line of thinking proves logical and an in-depth look reveals the truths about the way man should reconsider today's accepted definition of morality. ... (EP) This is likely the logical reasoning by which a concept of morality began before it led to irrational complexities known as religion. ...

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In the early Indo/Aryan teachings, doing one's duties and staying in line, so to speak, were required and made up that person's dharma. ... Collectively, all humans search for meaning and reasoning behind the enormous puzzle that is life. ...

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Evil is present throughout the world in many different forms. Wars, torture, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and many other evil atrocities are an every day occurrence in some parts of the world. It would seem that the world cannot escape from evil and the problem of suffering will always exis...

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How do you feel about cloning? Do you believe it is right? Does it go against your religious beliefs? These are just a few of the questions society is asking of itself these days. As cloning transforms from a fantasy to a reality, many ethical questions are brought into the picture. Cloning which...

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According to James, without religious ideas (whatever their origin) there is no proper reasoning for difficult moral choices, or hardships, and therefore, the quality of human life diminishes. ... "It is an enormous relief to the individual psyche if the conflicts of its childhood arising from the father-complex - conflicts which are never wholly overcome - are removed from it and brought to a solution which is universally accepted." (212) An illusion is an error made by humans in terms of wish fulfilment and borders on the line of psychotic delusions. ...

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In her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley simultaneously spins both a gripping horror story and an intense line of philosophical questioning - specifically, what it means to be human. ... " The creature at this point has clearly developed a firm grasp of his human emotional needs, desperately reasoning and threatening his maker in order to ensure his misery is ended. ...

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No entity wants their line of genes, which is essentially the essence of their being to conclude, so they do everything in their power to successfully attempt to transfer their essence to the generation to come, in order for them to live on in a sense. ... This line of reasoning actually does make some kind of sense. ...

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These are: Consciousness of objects and events around us and also within us we should have the ability to feel pain: Reasoning, the ability to solve new and complex problems Be able to Self-motivate activity Be able to communicate Be aware of self-concepts and self-awareness, Because a foetus doesn't hold these five characters, it is not entitled to full moral status, and can be terminated during any stage of pregnancy. ...

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For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocritical, and skeptical. I believe that human life is valued less than it should be, that it does have a meaning. ...

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