The Virtue of Selfishness

Yes, i think companies like Gunwerks and TrackingPoint have an ethical obligation to discontinue production and promotion of long-range shooting systems that are used to take down game. First,i think using long-range shooting systems would broke the care ethics.In the past, hunter cannot conquer the issue of calculating the pull of gravity on a bullet traveling farther nor mention the harder-to-calculate effect of wind. We can keep a balance between human beings and animals. With the development

over others” and individuals now share a mutual sentiment to not impose, not interfere, and not care. Tocqueville declares that “individualism… dries up the source of public virtues… and attacks and destroys all the others and will finally be absorbed in selfishness.” This growing habit of selfishness and loss of selfless virtue deeply severs people’s connections from each other and further isolates

As a citizen of the United States, you are entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This is a VIRTUE that everyone embarks on; however, what if you were told you were doing it wrong? Aristotle begins his STORY stating that “EVERY art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.” He goes on to say then, because these ends at which we aim are only

the intelligible,” a quote from Plato’s The Republic: VII Allegory of the Cave; his philosophy of stages of knowledge to turn the soul to right desires; resonating with Roark’s path, showing that what’s more important is keeping your morals and self virtue, growing your knowledge higher. By the demise of Peter Keating, Roark’s path to success, and Ayn Rand’s portrayal of society in Fountainhead, Howard Roark has the true success. Growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, people started in the dirt and oil

and understood and we learn to fight for our personal happiness above all else will we “will learn to live like men” because we will accredit pride as the reason and sum of our virtues. Louis Pojman is a philosopher and critique of Rand’s theories on ethical egoism and her disregard for the similarities between selfishness and self-interest. “Ethical egoism is utilitarianism reduced to the pinpoint of an individual ego. Instead of advocating the greatest happiness for the greatest number, as utilitarianism

again. Perhaps in her heart she was jealous of the baby that was not born to her.      As Guenever began to age, she became restless, more unreasonable and much more cruel, similar to the personality of Lance. Her three virtues were that of Courage, Generosity, and Honesty, which remained with her through her life time. When Lance was gone, she became wretched. At 40, Gwen was a splendid figure, yet only two years later, she begins to badly apply unneeded makeup and to over

The Dangerous Effects of Selfishness within The Grapes of Wrath and Raging Bull John Steinbeck and Martin Scorsese passionately created The Grapes of Wrath and Raging Bull regarding the art of selfishness in an attempt to recreate problems that society faces today. In today’s society, the word selfishness is a synonym of evil; the image it produces is of a fierce animal who tramples over others in order to achieve their goals, who cares for no one, and lives only to gratify their immediate needs

the goodness of virtues. Odysseus was known as a virtuous man. He developed a mutual trust within his kingdom, and went to go battle in the Trojan War. His life consisted of fighting in the war for ten years and, unfortunately, getting lost on his way back home for ten more years. During this journey home, many obstacles came his way and showed him different virtues and vices. The virtue of loyalty is never questioned towards Ithaca, his wife, and his son. He never lost the virtue of piety; as he

In Neil Messer’s book, Christian Ethics, he outlines three approaches to economics as classified by theologian Stephen Long. These three being a dominant tradition, an emergent tradition, and a residual tradition. After reading through and considering the merits of each I feel that as a Christian, one must embrace the residual tradition. Both the dominant and emergent traditions can work in a society to some degree. But there will be always one group of people that will be disadvantaged or disempowered

culture, however, has a skewed perception of Machiavelli’s own personal political ideals. Although Machiavelli’s The Prince discusses governance of a principality from the point of view of the prince, his longer work, The Discourses, extolls the virtues of republics and provides a detailed analysis of the republics of Ancient Italy compared to modern Italian republics and more closely