... facing an unjust law? Does one adhere to social standards, or pursue his or her convinced conscience? Each of these situations surface in the works of two ancient Greek writers. In Plato's Apology and Crito, through critical reasoning, Socrates acknowledges the word of the law. In contrast, Sophocles" play Antigone makes the point that justice should be put ahead of the law ... been made that give Socrates the chance to flee. This is where Socrates makes his stance and refuses to escape. The view Socrates carries, along with mostly all philosophical thought and teaching, is that of idea...

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... in the ancient Chinese culture while Aristotle's ideas were as a result of his immersion and presence in the ancient Greek culture. In spite of this, however, both touched on subjects of a similar nature quite frequently, including the concept of virtue, or of being of a good ethical character. Through a comparison of ... that order, not unsurprising considering the structure of Chinese society with its concern first for family, second for others, and third for knowledge. While it is clear that Chinese and Greek cultures both placed the heavy emphasis on learning and on the knowledge o...

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... it is the first to have a female as a protagonist. Not only is this character a female, but someone who is strong, intelligent, moral, and brave. This provides a clue as to Sophocles' views on this topic of women. Sophocles demonstrates an affinity for feminist values in his play Antigone, ... which portrays its female characters as more motivated, morally upright, and braver than their male counterparts. Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, challenges the order of Creon, King of Thebes. She is convinced that burial rights ... into what he believes a woman's role can be. Additionally, Sophocle...

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"Greek" Reflection Paper What are morals? Does everyone have morals? If so, what morals are just and what morals are unjust? Is it just to kill someone even if your life is in danger? Is it just for a professional basketball player to play for the money and not for the love ... though each thinker takes a different approach to why there is a God, that of St. Augustine seems the most valid because he takes a rational stance and does not dogmatically assume God's existence. Plato's philosophy assumes that God exists as a supremely good being whose goodness is analogous to Plato's concrete conc...

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... his interest in Biology (Durant 56). Aristotle's metaphysics is, to some, Plato diluted by common sense (Russell 162). Plato's theory of ideas is partly metaphysical, and partly logical. An example of Plato's metaphysics is as follows: the logical part of the sentence "that is a cat" would be very generic, considering there ... between every cat. The metaphysics part of Plato's theory of ideas says that "cat" refers to an ideal cat, "the cat" created by god, and unique of all other cats (Russell 121). 3 Physics is the study of the workings of the universe. Pythagoras thought the world was...

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... Greek ethos'-custom, usage or character. Can be defined as philosophical study of morals. Seems to pertain to individual character of a person. "morals--comes from Latin mores'=custom or usage "moral--what is good or right "immoral--what is bad or wrong. Characteristics of good, bad, right, wrong' a.)'Good' or right'-involve pleasure, happiness and excellence that lead to harmony and ... in their daily lives .It helps people behave rationally. Deals basically with human relationships, how humans treat other beings to promote mutual welfare, growth, creativity and meaning in striving for ...

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... again, this is a misunderstanding. Hedonism is self centered, focusing on the the attainment of brief satisfaction through material and physical things, while eudaimonia is other centered, emphasising life fulfillment. Directly translated from Ancient Greek, Eudaimonia means "good spirit" ("eu" meaning "good" and "daimōn" meaning "spirit,") but Aristotle more often interprets the word as "flourishing." To live a life ... of eudaimonia, our happiness cannot be fleeting; it has to be a constant and continuous element of our lives. However, a person cannot flourish ... serving others, I wo...

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... Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle. Plato, the teacher, and Aristotle, the student, had different views on each of the three issues. Plato believed that a certain Creator made the world for the inhabitants to be like himself. The Creator desired that all things should be pleasant and without fault. Plato believed that the Creator took the world in all of it's chaos and disorder and established order and ... so different. I believe Aristotle would support the evolution theories that have been posed by many scientist and philosophers. Aristotle thought of love as a feeling that could b...

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... proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain and the privation of pleasure." Mill proves by this statement that we act in a certain way because of the greatest happiness ... that people tend to act that way; however that is not the moral way that people should behave. There is no rational connection between happiness and morality. The simple truth of the matter is that a behavior or action that makes a person happy is not sufficient in establishing that ...

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... , however, because many of the things we do affect others in our culture to some extent, these views should not be accepted. It allow a person to do whatever they choose and not take responsibility for it even if it hurts someone else. This is why we should move toward a more cultural relativistic view where within a certain culture certain actions become more ... objectively scrutinized. This forces individuals to take responsibility for their actions and hopefully to minimize the negative affects of egoism on a society. Kant takes a stance that neither of these views are the right ones...

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... the pleasure of physical contact (Alan Goldman, "Plain Sex"). "Pleasures of physical contact" might not specify sexual pleasure accurately enough. An additional complication is that a gender difference in the experience and conceptualization of sexual pleasure might exist. Also, someone might experience sexual desire yet have no idea what to do as a result of having it, no idea that physical contact, or ... each person is respecting the other as an autonomous agent capable of making up his or her mind about the value of the activity. If we are to understand sex and appreciate it on its ...

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... they act. Most cultures have a major religion that has a moral code associated with it. These moral codes have general similarities, such as don't kill and don't steal. Over time these groups of morals have been refined and combined and the similarities are part of our general ethic code of today. Ethics are nothing more that ideas. These ideas are useless everyone in a society ... as acceptable. The fact that most major religions have similar codes of ethics would suggest either proof for the divine command theory or humans have an instinctual nature towards ethics and morals. As there...

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... showing the controversies in those points. First of all, secular side says that since society cannot function well unless individuals have moral virtue, and since that individuals cannot separate from the society, morality pays for the self-interest. For example, people follow the etiquette because they believe ... long run with good interpersonal relationships. However, as Layman argues, although it seems that the institution of morality pays for individuals who participate and for those who are consciously thinking about return payment, this is not always true. There is no absolute guar...

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... year. I was told that football was too dangerous; there was a possibility that I could suffer a fatal injury. Who wishes for their teenager to be crippled for life? For those young men and women whose parents disagree with their particular choice of sport; I suggest poker. After all, poker is America's past time. However, for every person that claims baseball as America's past time ... possess a great deal of mathematical intelligence, which gives them an edge. Knowing the odds on a hands winning potential is requirement for being a good poker player. It also requires physical stamina a...

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... defendant, (2) if the plaintiff was to be paid for the services or property by the defendant and the property or services were not provided gratuitously, and (3) the defendant was given an opportunity to reject the services or property that were offered and did not do so. Ethics: Wrench LLC v. Taco Bell Corporation Did Taco Bell act ethically in ... idea of being allowed to use the image that Wrench had developed, Psycho Chihuahua. The fact that Taco Bell took the idea as presented to them and then hired an outside agency to develop the Chihuahua character to use in their ads requires Ta...

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Following the South Carolina primary, the Republican contest has largely become a three-man race, although historically the candidate is essentially decided by the Florida debates. With Rick Santorum taking Iowa and Gingrich taking South Carolina, Mitt Romney aggressively bashed Gingrich in the most recent debate in an effort to stay afloat. Romney sought to highlight Gingrich as an unethical politician with a ... questionable history plagued by an ethics investigation in the 1990s and his involvement with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (Reston). "We're not choosing a talk show host," Romney said...

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... set of acceptable actions that is acceptable by a group or an individual. As such, doing contrary to this amounts to resentment and sometimes punishment. Social responsibility is also dictated by ethics. Organizations are expected to adhere to business ethics while their employees are subject ... to individual ethics. The two case studies provided in the Shades of Gray provide an insight into several complex issues of both social responsibility and personal ethics that have emerged in the hospitality industry[ CITATION Tim95 l 1033 ]. To begin with, social responsibility has been lackin...

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... good will is not good because of what it achieves or causes (872). It is "good in-itself." If I bake John a cake out of generosity and it makes him fat, that does not mean my original will was bad. Furthermore, if I have the desire to bake him a cake, but no means to do ... customer, but the will was personal gain. Kant asserts that one's will must only act upon the "universal law," which is void of human feeling and emotion. This is best seen by the Categorical Imperative (CI). The CI applies to all without exception. Kant's first formulation states that you should "act only ... maxim...

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... charity organization had touched. Just looking at the variety of people gathering together today: the old widowers; married teenage boys and girls; cross dressers in their strange apparel; lesbians unabashedly holding hands; and gays crying in each others shoulders. I quietly slipped out of the conference hall where our free counseling sessions were about ... to begin, my head dropped and my face gloomed much like all the others. They were all lost, lost in the crazy town, San Francisco. Trying to grasp ... then he knew what to do with, He surely wouldn't be that upset about misplacing t...

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... Post - Conventional stage of morality. Lawrence Kohlberg describes those who are at this level as able to decide for themselves what is right and wrong and act according to their own thoughts and memories. Creon's actions prove that before people can right what is wrong, they must first understand why it is wrong. Creon was ... just because he believed so strongly that someone who undid his word deserved only death and eternal torment. At the end of the play an oracle tells Creon what sort of disruption he had caused between heaven and earth and that he would be punished for his inabilit...

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... is not possible to move from a factual statement to a moral one. Emotivism is a moral theory based on people's emotive responses to things and is a reductionism theory; it seeks to reduce moral statements to responses such as expressions of preference, attitude or feeling. It is for this reason that the theory is sometimes referred ... merely disagreements in attitude, but that the moral statements given are not merely expressions of emotion. They are the result of attitudes based on fundamental beliefs. Moral terms are persuasive and substantiate beliefs. In such a case the Logical Po...

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... These employees live in a very poor country where work is at a minimum. Nike pays the workers in Indonesia a very low wage and subjects them to harsh working conditions. There are several third world companies that produce expensive products. Products such as Nike move some of their products ... to countries like Indonesia and Mexico for cheap labor. The cheap labor is one factor but to treat humans harshly is a total different matter. Their wages are ... here are forced to work for hours at a time without breaks or lunches on some occasions. The employees suffer from physical and psych...

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... on. In most cases, families of the diseased accused nurses of euthanasia. Need for Palliative Care A patient may need palliative care at any stage of illness; even soon after diagnosis and treatment commence. It is advisable not to wait until a disease reaches an advanced stage or when a patient is in their final months of life. The earlier the palliative care is ... likely to deny the patients a chance to communicate with their family members or even to their God. At worst, sedations have been said to shorten life and hence are likened to euthanasia (McKean, 2012). BSN vs. AND OR Diplo...

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... watching television. Many people believe that television violence has a negative effect on society because it promotes violence. I agree with this statement because TV violence can change the way a person thinks and acts. Would parents like to see their children become dangerous delinquents when they grow up? To begin with, some people believe that television doesn't cause any type of change in ... something before its too late. It may take years to recover from a violent life to a normal stable life style. Choose to stop while you can! Additionally, children have a great memory and see...

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... " King writes, "I have been arrested on a charge of parading without a permitsuch an ordinance becomes unjust when it is used to maintain segregation and to deny citizens the First-Amendment privilege of peaceful assembly and protest." King organized a protest despite the law which required a permit because morally it was the right thing to do. In Stanley Milgrams, " ... recognizing the wrong doing towards American's from Great Britain's rule. The congress provided many examples of Great-Britain mistreatment towards the colonies. Some included "imposing taxes without consent" and "depriv...

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