He describes it as his "vaulting ambition" and he knows that it's there and it's causing him to do these things. ... He has an unstoppable ambition represented by this hallucination. ... This drives her insane and causes her to end her own life. ... I would say Lady Macbeth has a major part to play in this tragedy with her powers of persuasion brought on by her own ambition, but I wouldn't completely blame her because Macbeth did carry on with the murders after her guilt had set in and she had ceased aiding him. ... The witches know all this is going to happen and the...

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Macpherson, and even his own Father, Max. ... This is a major moral and emotional loss for Duddy that is a result of his over ambition. ... This has become her life's ambition while Duddy forgoes love and lasting relationships in order to get more and more land. ... Max is overwhelmed with the idea that his own son would do this to his boyhood idle. ... In this part of the novel Duddy has gained all the worldly wealth in owning the land. ...

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Concerning human behavior, Machiavelli will suggest that human beings are driven by their ambition and desire, he states: "For when men are not necessitated to fight, they fight for ambition, which is so powerful in our minds, that lets us arrive at what height of good fortune we can, we are never contented, but are still laboring for more; and this happens to us, because we are unable to compass; and therefore our desire being greater than our power to acquire, our minds are never at rest with what we enjoy. ... He also believes that moral judgment cannot exist because your personal judg...

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He could "see more things than most people, but he could see none of them too distinctly", since his vision is obscured by ambition and greed. ... He convinces everyone around him that they own a share of the Syndicate, and as such, are part of something much greater. ... Heller likewise pokes fun at the gullibility and shallowness of American society, revealing that "the sweetest part of the whole deal was that there was no need to reimburse the government at all" (259), showing that society is more inclined to gain profit than uphold its own moral standards. ...

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A good example of this is the description Conrad gives of Stevie's reaction to an injured animal: "The dramas of fallen horses, whose pathos and violence induced him sometimes to shriek piercingly in a crowd, which disliked to be disturbed by sounds of distress in its quiet enjoyment of a national spectacle" (Conrad: p49) In this case it is obvious that Conrad's irony, although appearing to mock Stevie, is instead turned against the crowd, thus revealing to us a degree of fellow feeling in Stevie and our own natures. ... His moralistic behaviour seems to arise from a keen sens...

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Kant's moral theory consists of two imperatives the first one is hypothetical imperative where a person works towards their goals and ambitions where they have personal choice for their desires. ... According to Kant, a person who takes the liberty to take control of their own or another individuals life acts in violation to the moral law, Kant argued that euthanasia is an unnatural act. ... According to John Stuart, "Individuals are ultimately the best judges and guardians of their own interests" [Sin03]. ... Kant's biggest principle is that every individual should be pro...

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The legal portion involves corporate insiders; i.e. directors, officers, and employees, who buy and sell stock in their own companies. ... The issue is whether Stewart was acting on privileged information when Bacanovic (her broker) called her on Dec. 27 to allegedly tell her that her friend Sam Waksal, than CEO of ImClone Systems, was selling millions of dollars worth of his own shares in the firm, according to prosecutors Stewart sold about 4,000 shares the day before the regulators announcement" (Chartier). ... According to the "stockholder theory", her duty is to conduct business in a ma...

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I will not be developing a moral theory of my own, but creating an account of some, but not necessarily all, key characteristics that would, arguably, be necessary for a moral theory to possess in order to not fall to contradiction or other such fallacy while still refraining from contradicting general intuition about the vast majority of subjects, cases, and dilemmas. ... It must of course, be noted that having humanitarian and altruistic agenda for the whole, does not necessarily mean focusing ones own ambitions to benefit the whole. ...

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