We can draw the conclusion that lying was not viewed as wicked or sinful by the author of the Book of…
You lie to her about a company-wide meeting to disguise her baby shower. In both situations, the commonly accepted action is to lie, despite the common knowledge that lying is wrong. This contradiction in society can present a moral problem. Famous philosophers Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill both present alternatives views concerning…
In the essay titled “Lying” by Sam Harris, when he states that “not all acts of deception are lies,” this does not imply that not saying the truth about a topic is not lying. Throughout his writing, Harris expresses the different situations. At times, humans may object that not saying the truth it’s the correct thing to do; in order to safe another being’s life. However, he also portrays examples of how “doing the right thing,” meaning to say a “white” lie, may not provide the positive result that we intended to obtain. For instance, in a situation where the mother is terminally ill and her son just died in a car accident, is keeping the truth from what happened morally correct?…
Telling the truth all the time is nearly infeasible. Stephanie Ericsson’s essay titled, “The Ways We Lie” breaks down the activity of lying into subcategories of the different kinds of lies we tell on a daily basis. In addition, Ericsson’s essay manages to point out the elemental role that lying plays in our lives and our culture. We all lie, whether to abstain from confrontation, spare people’s feelings, conveniently forget, keep secrets, or even to justify our own words and actions. By clarifying the extent into which we all lie, Ericsson begins to insinuate the many, many ways we fib, by listing and describing each lie in it’s natural element.…
Liberty and freedom is often overlooked in some countries but other countries have never seen freedom or liberty before. That is because our vast world has many different forms of government with different forms of control, two being democratic rule and absolute rule. Democracy by definition is a system of government by the whole population or all eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. Many countries today have democratic governments such as the United States of America, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, and Mexico. Ancient Greece is credited with the birth of democracy in the 5th century B.C.E. Originally, democracies favored free men and granted them the right to vote.…
Telling the truth all the time is nearly infeasible. Stephanie Ericsson’s essay titled, “The Ways We Lie” breaks down the activity of lying into subcategories of the different kinds of lies we tell on a daily basis. In addition, Ericsson’s essay manages to point out the elemental role that lying plays in our lives and our culture. We all lie, whether to abstain from confrontation, spare people’s feelings, conveniently forget, keep secrets, or even to justify our own words and actions. By clarifying the extent into which we all lie, Ericsson insinuates a plethora of ways in which we fib, by listing and describing each lie in its natural element.…
Humans lie all the time without a second thought. People lie to evade consequences and extended explanations; in other words, lying generates a smoother way forward because it lacks both confrontation and shame. Stephanie Ericsson, in her essay, The Ways We Lie, argues “When someone lies, someone loses”(1) through various examples and situations. In contrast, both Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and John Steinbeck’s East of Eden provide numerous examples that dispute her claim.…
Equality is all we have ever asked for, so why is it difficult to understand and give. In “Still Separate, Still Unequal” written by Jonathan Kozol, describes and addresses the problems with our public schools. Kozol mainly focuses on the racial segregation and the isolation students still face today. He uncovers the inequality the education system puts among their students of color. For example, most of the funding for schools goes primarily to white schools, while giving the minority schools the remains.…
For many years now both men and women have struggled to obtain justice in education, the economy, and in the workforce as segregation continues to seek its element of inequality in the lives of American citizens. While segregation is known as problem of the past, it has also shown to affect today’s society in many ways. In the essay “Still Separate, Still Unequal,” Jonathan Kozol reports on the matter of segregation occurring in today’s public schools throughout urban and suburban cities in the Unites States. Along with him, in “Rethinking Affirmative Action” David Leonhardt observes how discrimination policies have desperately addressed the topic of race rather than emphasizing on the disadvantages students encounter by college admissions.…
Arthur Miller is the author of The Crucible. He was born on October 17, 1915 in Harlem, New York City, NY. He is also known for his playwrights like All My Sons and Death of a Salesman. Unfortunately Arthur Miller died on February 10, 2005 in Roxbury, Ct.…
What happened prior and subsequent to Briggs v. Elliott (South Carolina) or Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County [Virginia]? Prior, a protest took place and subsequent, a group of people filed a lawsuit. Now we will critically analyze and compare the sequence of the two situations to today’s conditions. Since the civil rights movement people of color have rallied, protested, and rioted to influence social and constitutional change. What did their efforts change?…
In the play “The Crucible” written by Arthur Miller we see many themes and lessons in the story. The main theme is focussed on deceit and lying and how lies can lead down a dark road which results in the ruin of many. The Crucible is a fictional play based on the Salem Witch Trials which occurred between February 1692 and May 1693 and resulted in over 150 people being accused of witchcraft and 20 executed. The story focusses on the story of John Proctor and Abigail Williams, his niece, and how lies, jealousy, revenge, and deep seated feuds caused a community to turn on each other in a vicious circle of accusations and misunderstandings. The characters in the play who lie significantly are Abigail, John Proctor, and Mary Warren…
The periscope of interest for this paper is Friedrich Nietzsche’s article, “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense.” Nietzsche was categorized as a post-modern philosopher who, through his works, had a tremendous influence on Western philosophy. The particular piece of writing discussed here deals with the relationship that human language has on the formation of truths and lies. The meaning behind the text, if true, essentially makes us rethink everything we think we know. “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense” is Nietzsche’s explanation of how and why humans have created their own perceptions of truths and lies.…
A person could write a novel on all of the different aspects of general and self honesty. This essay merely touches on a few essential ideas associated with honesty, but the most important thing to remember is that any act intended to conceal or alter the truth is not one of honesty; rather honesty is being trustworthy and truthful in all aspects of…
Katyayana maintains, in a similar manner that women should be a witness for women (when women are litigants), for (litigant of) the first three castes (witnesses should be of) the same caste as themselves, well balanced sudras for sudra (litigants), and men of the lowest castes, such as chandalas should be witnesses for lowest castes. 205 Brhaspati entails that in boundary disputes relating to house and field, peasants, artisans, hired labourers, headmen, hunters, gleaners, root-digger and fisherman are to act as witnesses. In relation to boundary disputes Narada’s list of false witnesses encompasses jugglers, public dancers, sellers of spirituous liquor, oil pressers, elephant drivers, leather workers, chandalas, sudras, peasants, son of shudra women and outcastes. Narada moderated the earlier provision regarding varna witnesses and provided that members of all varnas could depose as witnesses in…