... experiences, and understand her struggle; we see her as a child, passive and subservient to her mother's demands. We then see her grow up, still a "good- person. As a teenager, her sexual inclination is not a conscious rebellion, just a "biological reality-; "The devil had attacked me at my weakest point: my inability to realise the limitations of my sex-. All of her problems "seemed ... was a sin-. Now all those who once loved Jeanette must reject her because of their religion. Jeanette, at 16 years old, is forced to move out purely because of sexual inclination. Her mother's claims th...

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... our natural desire to associate with others. Machiavelli, on the other hand, argues that politics is not natural, that ambitious men artificially construct political societies, and that ordinary men have a inclination to withdraw from political life and seek solitude. According to Machiavelli, there are two classes of people in every state, people can be classified into two groups, that one group ... ...

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... the deep, bitter tensions that arise from the clash between the powerful and the powerless" (136). Marx saw religion as part of the mitigating complex called "ideology," embodying "the natural inclination of those who benefit from injustice to show why the circumstance that creates it should remain unchanged" (138). The role of religion for Marx then is to quench the emotional ... ...

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... 226). Man in society experiences both the tendency and desire to come together as a collective and the constant resistance that threatens to break up the same society. Man has an inclination to live in society, since he feels in this state more like a man, that is he feels able to develop his natural capacities. But he also has a great tendency to ... ...

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... , Kant felt that the principle of one's own happiness supports morality and puts virtue and vice in the same class(p.59). Kant did however; reject the actions done from direct inclination like in the principle of self-love. Kant also said that one must be able to will a moral action apply to all humans, and he or she must be willing ... ...

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... they are to be moral (Thiroux, 2001). The second, and more complex rule deontological theory is that of Immanuel Kant's Duty Ethics. Kant believed that every human being has an inclination to behave in a certain ways, whether they are positive behaviors, such as participating in volunteer efforts, or negative behaviors, such as abusing children. Therefore, to escape these "irrational and emotional ... ...

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