Hardin

Hardin talks about a scenario where there are limited seats in a boat, and there are an overabundance of people in the water attempting to persuade the people in the boat to let them join. There are two choices that the “rich” people in the boat can make, either “live by the Christian ideal of being ’our brother’s keeper,’ or by the Marxist ideal of ‘to each according to his needs’” (Hardin 291). Hoffmaster and Hooker analyze how finite agents…

results, or is it better to just leave them to fend for themselves? In his essay “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” Peter Singer argues that it is the moral responsibility of the affluent and well off to help those in poor circumstances while Garret Hardin in his essay, “Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Helping the Poor,” does not disagree with Singer but explains why helping the poor may not be the preferred method in resolving their issues. One of the big questions that both of these cases…

In Hardin county Tennessee,1850, the son of James Henry, a past Confederate soldier,and Mary Jane Grove was born. His name was Edwin Wiley Grove who would, by the time of his success, be referred to as E.W. Grove. Little did Mary nor James know that their son would become a successful entrepreneur in the fields of medicine and in many others. commons.wikimedia.org After Edwin made a move to Memphis Tennessee he began to study the field that had intrigued him,pharmacy. Once he’d completed years…

in their lives. Jacob Fahey, a high school senior working at Eli Lilly said, “I define success as the achievement of personal, professional, intellectual, or monetary growth that stems from the dedication of an individual to improve himself.” Lisa Hardin, longtime teacher at New Palestine High School, said success is “Enjoying your life on a daily basis.” It is important to note the differences in their definitions of success -- in people ranging from ages…

The Ethical Impact of Socioeconomic Inequality As humans, we have the option to help someone and not to help someone. Although we have the option to say yes or no, our decision will have an impact. In the articles that I have recently read, there has been controversy on whether the poor should be helped, or left to die off. In my opinion, the poor should be helped. Money, and living conditions separate the rich from the poor. Helping each other could change the way that the economy is going.…

Louis Armstrong is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential jazz musicians of all time. Coming into prominence in the 1920s, his fame stretched across decades through his unique style of trumpet playing, playing in bands of some of the more influential jazz musicians, being mentored by influential jazz musicians and becoming a nationwide cultural icon, not just in the view of the entertainment industry, but in the view of all of America (Megill, 76). His inventiveness,…

The Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar Mining District has been mining since the early 19th century (University of Minnesota.) In Illinois fluorite was mined in Hardin and Pope Counties. In 1890 the Fairview Mining Company (located in Hardin county) started to mine fluorite. Before the mining company opened up the early people in Illinois had to mine by digging shallow pits. At first all they would collect was the galena to use for lead and toss the…

In defense of the survivors’ guilt arising from not helping the poor, he claimed that “the net result of conscience-stricken people giving up their unjustly held seats is the elimination of that sort of conscience from the lifeboat”. He defined guilty about one’s good luck as a type of conscience and the newcomer’s lack of guilt about the rich people’s loss as conscience drain; but the author deliberately omitted the morality of rich people’s indifference to the poor asking for help. Counting…

Louis Armstrong to join his band in Chicago.” While Armstrong didn’t have the style he was known for at the time, his prominence was starting to grow, and the bands he played in helped Armstrong develop his own career. Armstrong was dating Lillian Hardin, who was the pianist for the band, and would later marry…

Peter Singer, an Australian moral philosopher, argued that individuals are morally obligated to help the poor. He states that “if it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it” (Singer 1). This means that we should donate as much of our resources, whether it be time, money, etc., as possible to those less fortunate without causing oneself to be in the same situation as those you are trying to…