Intention

This question, posed by Williams (1981), is a battle field for moral judgments in daily life. Circumstantial factors may influence the moral judgement of a situation in several ways, one of which is the mismatch between the intentions behind an action and the consequences of that action. This is the core difference between negligent or reckless behaviors and tortious behaviors in the common law. Nagel (1979) posed a dilemma in which two equally intoxicated people both decided…

over his views on slavery, political career, and intentions behind and during the Civil War. Lincoln’s stance on slavery is widely questioned. His advocates think he was a great abolitionist and his critics think he was no such thing. Regarding his political intentions, his critics see him as a Hamiltonian and a protectionist causing the South to secede instead of purely over slavery. Most of all there is wide disagreement as to Lincoln’s intentions behind keeping the Union together. Most claim…

7. Intentions (Inferring to intentions of previous actions) 8. Intentions (Responding to intentional/unintentional actions. 9. Maintaining conversations (Using boundary markers) Lomax still need one or two verbal prompt to stay on the topic and respond appropriately to the conversation…

has been criticised because of the 'subjective intention' requirement. According to the act, a person must not enter into a relevant agreement or a transaction with the intention of significantly reducing the amount of the entitlements of employees of a company that can be recovered, or preventing the recovery of the entitlements of employees of a company. In practice, the section is rarely used as the plaintiff bear the onus to prove the intention of the directors. Employees are…

persuaded to be against someone or they prove themselves a threat to Brutus, he will help them with their needs, even if this means doing nothing to stop them. An example of this is when Brutus allows Antony to give his speech, even though Antony had intentions of driving the crowd against Brutus and his team. Even though Cassius warned Brutus of this possibility, Brutus shrugs it off, hoping for the best.…

not perfect; like everyone else he is only human. Friar Lawrence proves to be responsible and honest. His intentions are honourable; he did not intend for anything to go wrong. He reacts quickly to problems he encounters and the plans that did not work out were not his wrongdoings. Often in life things take a turn for the worst whether you like it or not, but it is all in the original intentions. If all was meant to have a positive outcome…

church refused to pay it and the Archbishop brought an action against the church on a foundation that an employment relationship had existed. The central issue before the court was whether or not the Archbishop or the orthodox community had the intention to enter into a contract of employment that was legally enforceable. The court inspected the relationship between the parties and the evidence of the usual employment relation existed for the most part. The Archbishop was given a group…

sum of money. During the night, Jones sneaks into his cousin’s house with intentions to drown him. However, upon reaching the bathroom, Jones notices his cousin has slipped into the bath and is now unconscious on the floor. Jones has the option to remove his cousin from the water to save him, but chooses to let his cousin die instead. Both examples illustrate Rachels’ Equivalence Thesis, that Smith and Jones act or intention to kill, is the same as letting die. Furthermore, he argues that…

varying moralities, just as there is not a single true language but many different ones. In this essay I will explain that despite the notion that different individuals in a given group have varying definitions of behavioral morals, it is their shared intentions as a group that ultimately determine how they understand and act out moral judgments. We will consider this notion in response to the morality of bullfighting in England. In regard to moral relativism, the position that moral judgements…

In Ravitch Chapter 10, we learned about Walton, Annenberg, Ford and Gates. These four, of many, foundations had very good intentions. For example, The Gates Foundation, established in 2000 with a 30 billion dollar grant, wanted to create smaller schools. Bill and Melinda Gates, who really had no idea how to run a school or even knew what students needed in order to thrive, decided…