However, Hegel does offer anyone the allowance for the understanding of man's dialectical movement towards a state, the universal, and an ethical life while still leaving room for individual freedom within ethical life. ... How can morality and particular subjective individuality ever solve this dilemma? ... Clarity of this individual is lost in the move to ethical life. ... The particular will first reaches the higher form of individuality in civil society, the second stage within ethical life. ... The state is the actuality of the ethical Idea (p155 257). ...

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There are many proposed theories that provide a basis, explanation and possible guide for our ethical reasoning. Utilitarianism and Kant's philosophy of principle, duty-based ethics and virtue ethics represent three different interpretations and theories however virtue ethics offers more as a basis for living a good ethical life. ... Providing us with another alternative for ethical reasoning is Aristotle's formulation of 'virtue ethics'. ... It is suggested that virtue ethics doesn't provide clear and direct guidance and direction when it comes to particular moral di...

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He also stresses that Europe is a child of Africa; he states that one cannot claim to be scientific without addressing this dilemma. ... What is "ethical" for one group is sin for another. But Ma'at, the reality that made all groups what they are is transcendent of ethics, just as a rock or a flower is amoral, a-ethical, without "truth or falsehood." How can a flower be "false" or "ethical." ... How can the universe be "ethical or moral, right or wrong"? ...

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A common format of Plato's work was to propose a dilemma and discuss the issue from characterised viewpoints. 'Socrates provided the inspiration for this by engaging people in conversation to question the basis for their beliefs.'5 Through directing a line of inquiry, the arguments for beliefs were subject to scrutiny and became considered to be a dilemma that needed to be examined. ... This was the key point of discussion from which the 'Euthyphro dilemma' was inspired. The dilemma sought to contest the Divine command theory and question whether there are any spiri...

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