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    philosophical naturalism, and social justice. This thinking particularly rejects pseudoscience, superstition, and religious dogma as the pedestals of decision making and morality (Kurtz 3). It further postulates that people have the ability of being moral and ethical without a god or a religion. However, secular humanism does not ignore the fact that human beings are either innately godly or inherently evil. Also, it does not in any way present humans as being the superior beings to nature. The historical

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    beliefs. I have chosen my brother Isaiah Thomas to compare and contrast the theories of the known theorist. The theories I chose to talk about are cognitive theory stages of development by Piaget, sociocultural theory by Vygotsky, and the stages of moral development by Kohlberg. Biography The person I chose to write about was my brother Isaiah Thomas. He is fifteen-year-old African American male about 6 foot 1. He has white teeth with a smile that will light up the room, black hair and brown eyes

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    arguments, all of which he has successfully responded too. In this paper, I have some new considerations that will prove that Marquis fails to provide adequate support for his thesis. One of the main arguments in Marquis’s paper has to do with the moral wrongness of deliberately killing a fetus. He begins his article by asking the question “why is it wrong to kill us?” (Marquis, 1989, p. 4). He responds to this question by saying murdering adults is not right since it denies them of their valuable

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    therefore is his moral antithesis. Banquo continues to hold a much clearer grip on life and real quality as a man in comparison to Macbeth, hence, Macbeth is forced to kill him if he is to follow through with his plan and go down a dark road. Macbeth's solution of killing his current problem finalizes his actions of immorality as well as his foil found in Banquo. Even after his death, Banquo is able to keep his integrity and use it to punish, or even remind, Macbeth of his moral supremacy. Banquo

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    Morality And Empathy

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    Cameron proposed the use of gut-level moral reaction to measure the morality and empathy of a subject. Cameron claimed that self-reported tests are often fallible to personal desirability; assessing “people’s immediate, spontaneous reactions before they had much time to think at all” would bypass this issue (Cameron 2017). To test his hypothesis on the gut reaction affecting judgement, Cameron’s team conducted tests for both the moral and empathy cases. In the moral trial, Cameron sequentially displayed

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    Comparing Two Rules

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    “ When thinking about the rightness or wrongness of a particular action or non-action, we should consider how we might evaluate the situation from the point of view of the other.” - Sam Crane. This very simple philosophical principle has been expressed in many ways throughout the years, but there are two ‘rules’ that I believe capture the essence of this idea best. The first of these rules is widely known as the Golden rule, which is “do unto others as you would have them do unto you”. The second

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    Whistle blowing is an endeavor of an employee or previous employee of a company to uncover what he or she accepts to be a wrongdoing in or by a company or association. Whistle blowing tries to make others mindful of practices that are viewed as illicit or immoral. In the event that the wrongdoing is accounted for to somebody in the company it is said to be internal. Internal whistle blowing has a tendency to do less harm to the company. There is additionally external whistle blowing. This is the

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    determination of not creating you a companion in vice."( pg. 163) Frankenstein will not sacrifice his morallity because of persuation from a monster. Although beholding the threat of death and misery Frankenstein held his ground and did not sacrifice his moral. When and if Frankenstein creates another monster he can not feel as if he has done the morally right thing. From creating the monster Frankenstein will some how be making people other than himself unhappy. " I consent to your demand, on

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    Power and corruption are concepts that are difficult to fully understand. Several controversies occur within these topics. There are both conventional and unconventional ways of viewing power. In an attempt to make a claim contrary to common belief, David Brin stated, “It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible.” This statement is not accurate because power is the corrupting device responsible for a plethora of downfalls leaders have experienced

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    utilitarian to attempt to relieve this type of suffering. His standpoint is that people should attempt to prevent bad things from happening: “if it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it” (231). Singer contends that this is largely an uncontroversial principle since it only requires that people do not make undue sacrifices in order to promote the greater good. The example he gives to demonstrate

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