For my kingdom I demand absolute obedience from my subjects. I want officials who are qualified by my side to help me make important decisions. ... I want to conquer neighboring lands and become the ruler of a unified China. ... Another reason I would employ Legalism because it can also help increase the wealth in my state. ... When a ruler decides that profit is worth more than virtues, his subjects begin to look for profits as well and ignore virtues, thus leading to gradual corruption within the state.15 I would not employ Confucianism in my state because while cultivating goodness and bein...
I describe this moral code and examine its connection with meaning in life. ... I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it away " (1 Kings 19:10, emphasis added). ... I was appointed to do that by God " (77). ... Will I see you at the last? ... But I cant " (McCarthy 56). ...
For example, if (while in a drunken rage) I had promised to kill someone, that would probably not be a good promise to keep. ... I think people are already looking to find happiness in some way, shape or form. I think it's a bit odd that Mill uses this as a basis for a moral. I feel that it should be understood already that people will do whatever necessary to attain happiness but why would it automatically become a moral to abide by. ... Mill deals with the objection to the baseness of his theory in the following way: "To suppose that life has (as [detractors] express it) no higher en...
Although Stevens does proclaim that "whatever may be said about his lordship these days "and the great majority of it is, as I say, utter nonsense "I can declare that he was truly a good man at heart, a gentleman through and through and one I am today proud to have given my best years of service to-, he contradicts his proud statement as he blatantly lies about his service to Lord Darlington (p. 61). ... When the chauffeur, or Colonel's batman, discovered where Stevens worked his "voice changed noticeably as he inquired: You mean you actually used to work for that Lord Darling...