Philosophy of Life Essay

Morally Advocating in Nursing; Legal, Ethical, and Moral Obligations of the Professional Nurse Nurses routinely find themselves in moral and ethical predicaments. The moral convictions of a nurse may be tested when the family revokes the dying wishes of a patient, or a preterm neonate is denied resuscitation efforts due to organizational policy. The purpose of this paper is to identify the role of the nurse as a moral agent, incorporate skills and values inherent to ethical reasoning, and…

Amnesty International defines prisoners of conscience as people who have not used violence but have been imprisoned because of their political or religious beliefs, ethnicity, gender, race, sexual orientation, or any other aspect of their personal being (“Prisoners of Conscience”). There are prisoners of conscience held all over the world, even in the United States. Many are imprisoned without a fair trial or formal charges and some are tortured. Often these prisoners are arrested for speaking…

In Hamlet, mortality plays out to be a major factor in the story line. King Hamlet, Hamlet’s father, is killed by his own brother. Mortality is an unfortunate occurrence, but we all have an experience one time or another during life. Experiencing mortality is a struggle in some extents to others, how we deal with them is up to us. To feel sorrow is understandable, but when your own father is killed by his sibling, vengeance is relatable. King Hamlet’s brother, Claudius, kills…

The obligation is not generated through an act of will, but instead because of our collective interest in preserving the institution of promise-keeping, both for the sake of our individual well-being and for the sake of productive, fruitful communal life in society. It may seem as though Hume contradicts himself in discussing the role of the will and the expression of a promise in creating obligation. How can obligation be dependent on these if it does not stem from an act of the mind? It seems…

Perception As critical thinking individuals we are given the power of choice and free will; the ability to decide if we prefer the left path or the right dictating our journeys as we grow older in knowledge and mind. Choices that are customized to reflect directly on our values, morals and beliefs; like a descriptive manuscript written in stone which depicts who we are in the depths of our personal abyss, stating what makes us different than others around us. But what happens when our sense of…

Today, class was all about values, and the Meyers-Briggs test results. Value are what you stand for in life and what drives you. Everyone has different values in their life. Those values can be looked at as seeds. The seeds you choose to water will get bigger and be your main values. The seeds that you never water probably aren’t going to be as important. If you want to be more empathetic, you water that seed more. If you want to be better at medical coding, you water that seed more. There’s…

Charity does exist, but not in the sense which Feinberg speaks of it. Feinberg speaks about “duties of charity,” but this is where Feinberg errs. While there certainly is such a thing as charity there is no such thing as a duty to be charitable. Inserting a legal duty into the equation nullifies any charitable action. For instance, if the government taxes me to take care of the poor this is not charitable. The government taxing me and later distributing my coerced contribution in a noble way is…

Ethical standards in the Human Service field offer a fundamental structure for professional behavior to be upheld at all times by individuals working in the area. According to (Kornberger & Brown, 2007)the primary objective of human service is to help individuals attain self-sufficiency in addition to achieving the best level of operating (Martin, 2014). defines ethical as sticking to acceptable rules of behavior and normally entails the values below: respect to others, encouraging…

Values exist within individuals and reflect their behaviour in the workplace where they hold shared values. O’Grady values TriVac and its independence deeply. His values are not congruent with the organization. TriVac is now owned by Rohrtech and their values are being passed onto them. Devine tries his best to enforce these values of unity, and working on achieving the benefits by integrating with Rohrtech but TriVac employees, especially Weston and O’Grady are stubborn and want to keep…

Being selfish means only caring about yourself and don’t care about other people. In both texts “Abuela Invents The Zero” and “Gombei and the Wild Ducks” there is a character being selfish. There is a common theme in the texts “Abuela Invents the Zero” and “Gombei and the Wild Ducks,” they took different approaches to show the theme. In “Abuela Invents the Zero” and “Gombei and the Wild Ducks” the theme is don’t always think about yourself. In the text “Abuela Invents the Zero,” Connie is…