Meta-ethics

Free parking? It sounds like an idea too good to be true, and that’s because quite possibly, it is. At least that’s what Donald Shoup argues in “Yes, Parking Reform is Possible”. A public policy which allows an extensive amount of parking in a crowded city at little to no cost, regardless of budgets or consequences, will have serious negative effects to a community. Shoup predicts that we can achieve major social, economic, and environmental advantages at virtually no expense merely by…

Kant’s argument is convincing. He makes believing in God rational by providing several questions to consider. He raises his point by bringing up objective moral facts. First stating that God's existence is reasonable because there must be a first cause. He also talks about individual morals and how God and morality go hand and hand. He then brings into light the categorical imperative, and how rational people create maxims. Furthermore, Kant mentions the highest good and happiness and how our…

There is a moral compass that makes a ticking noise every time a person makes a decision that could have a successful result or a dreadful consequence. People make choices that shape their lives using this tik-tok compass, and it will be at the back of their head reminding what is virtuous or dishonorable that follows throughout the journey of life. Throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses Huck Finn's moral compass in an assortment of ways to uncover how Tom’s influence has…

How is it that we are able to distinguish the feelings we have? When we feel anger there has to be a time where we did not feel anger and instead felt calm. When we feel happy it is because we are not suffering in that particular moment. One feeling cannot exist without the existence of a polar opposite feeling. In Ursula Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” she depicts a pseudo-utopian society where there is prosperity for all, but one person. This person’s misery is the foundation…

The periscope of interest for this paper is Friedrich Nietzsche’s article, “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense.” Nietzsche was categorized as a post-modern philosopher who, through his works, had a tremendous influence on Western philosophy. The particular piece of writing discussed here deals with the relationship that human language has on the formation of truths and lies. The meaning behind the text, if true, essentially makes us rethink everything we think we know. “On Truth and Lies…

Jesus Ceja English 3P, Period 4 10 October 2017 Follow Your ideas and beliefs In Emerson's Self-Reliance, I believe that Emerson's argument is viable in today's world because he argues to be true to yourself, to follow your own instincts, Especially in today's world that people get judged for no reason. Don't imitate others lead own life as you please. According To fast company ‘’we spend our days in our own world.’’For example, We’re interacting with our family members and…

“The Birthmark” Sometimes in life, you should be happy with what you have before you lose it or it is taken away from you for good. This saying I think is the main idea of what really happens to Aylmer. In the “The Birthmark” which was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in the 1800s, has beliefs and ideas that are still a part our of society today. In this world, women are judged for any little flaw that they may have. Hawthorne’s thoughts about science, beauty, and life still play a major part in…

The author of; Where Olive, Lemon and Laurel Trees Grow (2010), Slobodan Dan Paich, discusses the Mediterranean, giving evidence that there are other views to be looked at other than the nationalistic view as is normally presented. Paich lets the reader know at the very beginning of the article that there is no specific hypothesis which he is attempting to prove or disprove. Instead he would like to bring forth evidence of many cultural similarities and the diversity of culture throughout…

Facing the growing intellectual embrace of objective values and truth in his time regarding matters of how one should live, the Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard recognized a crisis in the (then) modern conception of selfhood. Similar to the way in which the Greeks speculated about the “good life” (E.g. the way Aristotle associated his idea of eudaimonia with the attainment of the highest form of human rationality), a collective desire for certainty and objective truth amongst his contemporaries…

1) 7 PTS - Explain the statement: positive and negative emotions are not polar opposites including what should be the ratio between an individual's positive and negative emotions in the workplace? What can be done to make the workplace a more desirable environment? Positive and negative emotions are not polar opposites. The world consists of more than just good or bad. There is also so called "gray area". That area is where both positive and negative emotions fuse. Negative emotions can easily…