Morality Tale Essay

The Significance of Ethics Ideals are immensely influential to a person’s behavior -- whether it be in a positive or negative manner. When people have strong core beliefs and values about any subject in particular, they account it into their everyday lives. Ideals, including religion, have specific morals and values which people choose to follow. These values shape who they are because of the beliefs within the religion that are being taught. The influence of people’s ideals shapes their…

In the Analects, Confucius argues that wealth is something not “worth pursuing” (7.12). However, this does not imply it is better to be poor than to be rich, but rather asserts that happiness is attainable at any status given a person follows proper customs. As Confucius says, the ideal state is being “poor and yet joyful, rich and yet loving ritual” (1.15). Confucius relates the worth of the person to their actions instead of their financial or societal status. Even for his students he…

Prudence is a virtue that many people aspire to incorporate in their lives. However, for many, attaining prudence is difficult due to a lack of understanding of what it actually means to be prudent. This can especially be seen in Andre Dubus’s “A Father’s Story” when the main character, Luke Ripley, falls to imprudence by his inability to understand what his actions will portray, commonly known as foresight. Prudence is not only having good judgement by foreseeing possible consequences, but also…

Both Fahrenheit 451 and Matched take place in societies that are not idealistic to most people compared to the lives that we are leading right now. Both authors had similar interests of showing how true equality can lead to major losses in life. Though, they had different ways of expressing true equality; one author used the retention and gaining of knowledge as a form of equality while the other used love and relationships. They had different tones and moods. In both stories, the protagonists…

In the “Letter to Menoeceus”, Epicurus argues that pleasure is the only essential good that people seek. He argues that pleasure is the only thing that people should pursue for its own sake. In this paper, I will make that the argument that pleasure or pain’s absence are not the only things worth pursuing for their own sake. Epicurus—a psychological hedonist—argues that “the end of all our actions is to be free of pain and fear” (Epicurus, par. 6). To summarize his argument, he states that…

is alright after saving a drowning girl he is shot, an act of man trying to kill him. So when the monster kills William, Henry, and Elizabeth he is doing so out of what he had been taught by man. T Goodrich says in his book The Morality of Killing “the common sense morality cannot be summed up in the pristine simplicity of ‘killing is (absolutely) wrong”, but that we have to look at the consequences of killing for example had someone killed Hitler prior to him killing six million jews this…

A Shocking Realization What is a miracle? Must it be the product of divine intervention? Or is it simply luck? I say it is an unexplainable, unforeseeable, unexpected change of fate. John Jeremiah Sullivan explores this in his essay “Feet in Smoke”. By questioning the common belief of miracles, he demonstrates that unreal ideas effectively portray reality. Sullivan recalls the event of his brother Worth’s near death. The shocking accident and process of recovery leaves John shaken as he…

The touching, perspective shaking story of “The Afghan Girl: A Life revealed” and the satirical wit found in Candide appear to harshly juxtapose each other in every way, but when looking beyond their differences it is clear they both center around the same universal question of how the human spirit can survive, and preserve the will to go on even when faced with insurmountable tribulations. They both arrive at the same conclusion: faith and philosophy is the driving power through impossible…

There are many very different, yet important themes in Frasier’s “The Good Son”. One of these important themes is sacrifice. Sacrifice is important to this episode because it appears in several characters. It is shown in both the main characters, Frasier and Martin, as well as the minor character, Niles. Sacrifice shows up in the main character, Frasier, many different times. Firstly, in the scene where Martin moves in, Frasier is sacrificing the amount of space to himself in his apartment. He…

Fontaine and Gaudin did not really object successfully or forcefully to the hardball tactics employed by Hauptmann and Zinnser. However, they were correct in noting the extreme importance of this contract for Pacific Oil, and some contract with Reliant, even a bad one, is likely better than no contract at all. Even so, Fontaine and Gaudin were not nearly forceful enough, and should have noted that they were making significant concessions already and were unwilling to go further. Hauptmann and…