Nonmoral Essay

Nietzsche was the re-evaluator of human values and what it meant to be human—a critique of the theme, human values, that we’ve been following scantily through this paper. Nietzsche also drives home what’s at stake in believing one thing from another, most often turning his ire towards Christianity. What Nietzsche discovered, however, was that our beliefs weren’t truly our own. Instead, he found that we were adopting discourses and meaning from places other than ourselves—contradicting the belief

Donovan Campbell, a New York Times Bestselling author as well as a former Captain of the United States Marine Corps offers unique insight on what it means and what it takes to become a remain a strong leader; in fact, he offers 8 chapters of insight, each one representing a different key concept on leadership. Each concept is different, however each one builds onto one another as the book progresses. While reading this book, I took careful notes on each concept as well as how I could incorporate

Since the 9/11 terrorist attack, Americans have a tendency to relate Muslims to terrorist attacks. The Paris Attack, San Bernardino shooting, and Donald Trump’s hatred speech against Muslims have caused the discrimination to increase at a rapid rate. Muslims are constantly discriminated on a daily basis by those around them. You would think that their religion wouldn’t have to do anything with the discrimination. Americans believe that Muslims are part of a religious group that encourages violence

Egoism is a teleological theory of ethics that sets the ultimate criterion of morality in some nonmoral value (i.e. happiness or welfare) that results from acts (Pojman 276). It is contrasted with altruism, which is the view that one's actions ought to further the interests or good of other people, ideally to the exclusion of one's own interests (Pojman 272). This essay will explain the relation between psychological egoism and ethical egoism. It will examine how someone who believes in psychological

As this semester has come to a close we reach the inevitable end question, “what is truth.” This is a question which many of the authors we have read works from have differing opinions of. Through reading the works and listening to lectures through this semester I have come to the conclusion that truth is essentially whatever the person who is thinking about it decides that it should be. The people that decide what their form of truth is usually get it from people which have some type of power over

The Servant Executioner Omar N. Bradley once said, “If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner” ("Technology Quotes."). Bradley denotes that without caution and knowledge of what mankind technologically creates, mankind could fall into an abusive relationship and struggle to live with said technology. He further implies it could end mankind as a whole and that it could be mankind’s executioner. Aldous Huxley in Brave New World

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 77 (2011) 76–85 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jebo From actions to empathy and morality – A neural perspective Istvan Molnar-Szakacs a,b,c,∗ a b c Tennenbaum Center for the Biology of Creativity, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles,