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    I believe my greatest skill is my ability to empathize with others. Reading novels is my passion and I learn to view things from different perspectives through these reading exercises. When I read a story, I see the world in the protagonist’s point of view or the antagonist’s point of view. I understand why they act that way or makes that decision when they face certain situations. When I’m able to understand their perspective their actions make sense to me. Although most of the time, the situations

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    ultimate goal of all human beings. To be happy and promote happiness. According to classical utilitarianism, when a person wants to act in an ethical way, he or she should strive to bring about the greatest possible amount of happiness for the greatest possible amount of people. This idea is known the greatest happiness principle. A similar idea is that a person should always strive, if incapable of producing happiness, to reduce unhappiness. These ideas

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    the individual’s view of the world and the choices one makes while providing care to a patient. Individuals are different in the way the perceive and view the world, thus similar encounters between two different individuals can be carried out differently. Individual’s philosophy of science, the personal viewpoint of the world, determines how perceptive one person can to certain thoughts and ideas while the others are blocked. Advanced practice nurses employ their philosophic view with each patient

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    Two of the greatest leaders, Alexander the Great and Marcus Aurelius both show traits similar to one another. A big thing that defined both leaders was their success in battle; both were strong, powerful military leaders that conquered empires and expanded their own. The next, were there philosophical views. While the philosophical works of Marcus Aurelius are read by people around the work today. Alexander the Great was taught by Aristotle, one of the greatest Greek philosophers of all

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    considers the interest of everyone equally (rule utilitarianism). Utilitarian’s believe happiness is the only thing that has intrinsic value. In the eyes Kant, not everyone deserves to be happy. But, for utilitarianism the goal is to generate the greatest amount of happiness with the least amount of harm. The most notable difference between the two theories is morality and happiness. Kant uses ‘the categorical imperative’ to decide what the moral duties of humans are. Kant’s second formulation of

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    My Struggle was a book that collects all Hitler ideas about his state model. The book touched on several points, such as Hitler’s point of view about the state, Marxism, and Jews. When he talked about his ideal state, he bellied that the German race is the only raise that has to be elevated among the other races. In addition he beloved that his position as a state leader give him all the authorities to be the mean state representative. Hitler focused also on the children future. He considered them

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    Euthanasia often surfaces in mainstream news as being a highly controversial issue, with strong arguments for both positions. To be clear, euthanasia can be defined as the following, “Intentionally taking the life of a presumably hopeless person” (Gay-Williams, 781). There are also several other distinctions that classify euthanasia as either active or passive, based on the level of action involved, or as voluntary, involuntary, or non-voluntary, based on the level of consent (Dittmer). However,

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    By zooming in on the point of view from just Jing-mei, it lets the reader go in depth of how Jing-mei reacts and feels towards her mother, who sets high standards for her daughter. Therefore, this creates a barrier between the mother-and-daughter relationship. Jing-mei displays her

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    The Enlightenment (1685-1815), one of the greatest philosophical movements in modern Europe, gave way to many extraordinary thinkers including Isaac Newton (1642-1727) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). Human autonomy was a central concept to members of the Enlightenment, meaning that humans inherently were rational, reasonable, and able to think for themselves, rather than be told what to think by their government or religion. Collaboration was also very important to enlightened thinkers and

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    Utilitarianism Analysis

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    Utilitarianism is one of the best known and most influential moral theories. (IEP) Utilitarianism is the ethical doctrine that an action is right, if and only if, it promotes the greatest happiness for the most people. “Utilitarianism is an ethical theory that states that the best action is the one that maximizes utility. "Utility" is defined in various ways, usually in terms of the well-being of sentient entities, such as human beings and other animals.” (Utilitarianism, Wikipedia) So basically

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