Beyond Freedom and Dignity

Critically examine one contemporary ethical issue from the perspective of either Christianity or Judaism. Annapreet Bhullar 13000382 ‘I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, not to hate them, but to understand them.’ Brittany Maynard; the heart breaking case whereby she took her own life aged 29, due to suffering from an aggressive malignant brain tumour. She died in Oregon, USA from taking a lethal drug prescribed by a doctor after become globally recognised…

Aristotle’s argument focuses on the evils of currency and ultimately offers a system that allows for greater equality. Aristotle argues first that currency was created merely out of convenience since not all “commodities were not easily portable” (Aristotle, 129). This suggests that he at minimum understands that many can see currency as necessary, which is why he must create such a strong argument against it. His main argument against this “art of acquisition” is that it perverts the purpose of…

The book restores to the reader an accurate understanding of the real effects of slavery’s demise as a multileveled and copiously complex issue that demanded radical transformations of the nation’s understanding of the American notion of freedom, the interrelationship of agricultural and industrial notions of labor, the social and political ramifications that were attached to reconstruction and finally the great impact that America’s emancipated slaves had on an international and global…

Assisted Suicide Introduction The right to life is one of the basic human freedoms. Similarly, the right to take away one’s own life is not punishable in the modern world. However, there are cases, when an individual who is willing to commit suicide is not able to do so by himself. Therefore, practices such as Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS) occur often in the world, somewhere legally and somewhere illegally. Assisted suicide is the act when a patient gets the help of a doctor to end life at…

Birmingham because injustice is here (…) so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town”. As this letter is a letter to a group of clergymen, King’s mention of the gospel is very relevant. However, this is also an open letter, and he is simultaneously appealing to the average American Christian citizen who might read this. If King states that his actions are to ‘carry the gospel of freedom’, readers of the same beliefs are inclined to believe him, so as to avoid…

Island, hammering on rocks in the scorching heat during the day, only to retire to a tiny eight-by-seven-foot concrete cell with only a straw mat to sleep on. When he was offered freedom in 1985, he refused, saying: “I cannot and will not give any undertaking, at a time when I and you, the people, are not free. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated!” Compassion — it is easy to forgive a stranger, and easier to forgive a friend, but how difficult it is to forgive an enemy. Nelson Mandela…

containment of power within the central government, and therefore they would be able to control the states. However, the anti-federalist viewed the government as a source to keep the country intact, but allow the people to make and have their own freedom. Generally, in the aspect of viewing two different political parties, one supported the exact opposite of what the other wanted. In regards to the constitution, the anti-federalist concluded that the constitution gave too much power to both the…

Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and W.E.B. Du Bois’s views about African-American freedom are different. Frederick Douglass was born into slavery. Many years after constant abuse Douglass fought back to the “slaver-breaker” Mr. Convey. After losing a physical confrontation with Douglass, Mr. Convey never lash at him again. Douglass attempted to escape slavery twice before he succeeded. In Frederick Douglass’s autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave…

Solomon Northup was an extraordinarny man. He was an intelligent and skilled man, loved and appreciated by most. He worked hard with a humble spirit noticeable to others. Not everyone was very fund of his success and freedom. While arriving among Washington D.C with the two white men and having an afternoon of festivities and drinking, Solomon found himself drugged and incarcerated. In the beginning of his narrative, he goes into deep detail of being chained in a dark…

He compares himself to the Apostle Paul; he states that he must “carry the gospel of freedom beyond his home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid” (MLK pg. 78). It was more than just going to help it was an obligation to fight for the community’s freedom. King explains how he was against all unjust laws and Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals…