Morality Tale Essay

For example, giving money to a homeless person just to get him/her to leave you alone would be judged not moral by Kant because it was done for the wrong reason. With Kants belief in mind; if the consequence of immoral behavior were dealt with in a legal structure, people would be prosecuted for "EVERYTHING" since there are no extenuating circumstances. Kant's categorical imperative is a tri-dynamic statement of philosophical thought:(1) "So act that the maxim of you could always hold at the…

I looked at her situation but that did not make me change my mind to report her. First, I made sure that it was her taking the money and I monitored the money for a week to determine about how much she was taking from the register so that I was able to have something to follow up on when I reported her. I then went to my supervisor and reported the incident and asked that we both sit down and talk to her and explain what we know and how we know of her stealing money from the register. After the…

But this is a conflict between two men who had up to this time been the nearest and warmest friends, one a great general and the other his most trusted officer. There is plenty of evidence throughout the play that up to this time there had been the fullest confidence between the two, and both alike were looked upon as men of excellent ability and sterling character. Othello was known as a noble Moor and had attained the highest military position, and therefore must have had the fullest…

Singer, Peter, (1972) "Famine, affluence, and morality”, Philosophy & Public Affairs, (pp.229-243). White, M. D., (2013) “Moral Judgment, in Superman and Philosophy: What Would the Man of Steel Do?” (ed M. D. White), John Wiley & Sons, Oxford. doi: 10.1002/9781118541821.ch1 Wolf, S. (2009), “Moral…

Ethical dilemmas are prevalent in education and, as leaders, we must find solutions that are fair and ethical for all stakeholders. A recent ethical dilemma that surfaced at my school involved a teacher and his use of physical contact with students. Our physical education teacher, who I’ll refer to as Mr. Smith, has a good rapport with students and coaches several sports outside of school. Mr. Smith has been teaching at our school for 10 years. He tends to make physical contact with students…

Back then, peoples social lives were very different from how it is now. As shown in the movie "Titanic" we could see how each class was seperated by which floor on the ship you were able to be on. The lowest class as in people who could just barley afford to get on the ship, stayed on the lowest floor of the ship. People of royalty stayed on the highest floor as they were seen to be of "most importance." What does being in a high or low class mean for you? Well, it limits you to who you can talk…

Rifkin says that philosophers and animal behaviorists have argued about the capability of self –awareness in other animals. While some argue that animals do not have self-awareness because “they lack a sense of individualism”, others beg to differ. A counter statement that Rifkin utilizes is the remarkable actions elephants do when they are faced with a dead kin. Elephants will “often stand next to their dead kin for days,” and occasionally touch “their bodies with their trunks. After…

Immortality is a concept that invokes thoughts of gods or energy, but can this concept apply to humans as well? In 1986 Freddie Mercury’s song, “Who wants to live forever,” has an underlying theme of one living forever against their will. 35 years before this song, cells taken from Henrietta Lacks became immortal and left her family to face a similar unimaginable quandary. The ethical research issues that have derived from the procurement and cultivation of her cells, and her family’s current…

Philippa Foot in her text “Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives” argues against the claim that moral judgments cannot be hypothetical imperatives, first presented by the philosopher Immanuel Kant. As found in her introduction on page 68-69 of the textbook, her argument is that moral judgments are categorical rather than hypothetical. But before one can explain her argument one must define and explain what hypothetical and categorical imperatives are. Kant himself wrote all…

it strength and only can reason itself question reason. There are limits, barriers that restrict reason. Although reason may have its limitations, Kant’s Groundwork goes on about reason and mentions that with freedom comes reason and with reason, morality. Kant mentions why reason is something that needs to be pushed because from reason comes rational knowledge. (Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals) This idea of truly being free comes from reason. The Founding Fathers were not only some of…