Moral character

Big Harold is one of trust, acceptance, respect and grace. This chapter displays a relationship between two individuals with a difference of beliefs and morals. Big Harold can be characterized as a traditionalist, he sees his morals as valid while others are wrong. The young boy can be characterized as mutual respect. He knows his beliefs and morals and the difference that Harold holds to, yet he continues to develop a relationship built on acceptance and grace. Trust was built at a young age…

conflict with ethical order. In the eyes of the characters, locating a way to stay moral is very challenging. When it is noticed that people who aren’t moral and doing as they please are gaining success, staying moral is testing. Being a Christian helped some characters who were conflicted, stay moral. Most of the men that are fighting for power stay immoral because their vision is clouded with power. From a Christian standpoint, it is much easier staying moral because you know the rewards in…

As the title character of Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich takes his final breaths, he mutters “death is over…there is no death,” (134). In the same way, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a story about the life leading up to death, rather than death itself. Through both Ivan and the rest of the characters, Tolstoy offers moral advice regarding how to handle the ultimate buildup to death. Ivan’s family and colleagues’ grandiose materialism is strikingly contrasted with the servant Gerasim’s…

If it is so easy to turn off our morals in a fictional format, how easy would it then be to do so in other formats? If we follow Vaage’s idea of the “bad fan” we are faced with a person, or group of peoples, that could potentially become violent. It is the belief of many people that such…

one’s appearance can have about an individual’s moral standpoint of being a good or bad person as ultimately, there is no definite answer as they coexist in each person regardless of appearance. Throughout the three pieces, I depicted one generic human figure that did not feature any human characteristics. This enabled the triptych to appeal to a diverse group of viewers. Each piece contains an element or symbolism to help identify it as one of the moral standpoints of “good” or “bad”. The…

In Plato’s Meno, Socrates and Meno discuss the concept of virtue, where they realize neither of them have all the answers to what virtue is. Citation. According to dictionary.reference.com, virtue is “moral excellence; goodness; righteousness” and “conformity of one 's life and conduct to moral and ethical principles; uprightness; rectitude.” I agree with Socrates when he says, he cannot teach virtue because he doesn 't know what virtue is. To come up with a true definition of virtue, one must…

There is no doubt that in every office or social setting there are certain groups that stick together and have developed a certain loyalty to each other, even when the behavior of the group is seen as immoral or unethical. Does this constitute a moral right to speak up and break that trust? People should address situations within their group where others act in immoral ways regardless of the outcome. It is morally right to call out immorality; to stand silent is like agreeing with the…

differentiates morality and virtue with various examples and stating that while something might be moral it might not be virtuous. For example, Kendall gives an example of someone being bullied and the witness not intervening. Kendall views this as moral but not vitreous. Conversely, Sandel (1998) and Wright (2009) are less rigid in their definitions. Sandel, similar to Kendall, defends certain actions as being moral (even if not by the standards of the general population), however Sandel never…

Hadleyburg has always been a respectable town, the narrator says. Its residents instill high moral principles in their children and vigilantly guard them against temptation. One day, a Hadleyburg resident offends a stranger passing through the town. The stranger remembers the offense on his travels elsewhere and vows revenge. His goal is to ruin the town's reputation. The action takes place at the end of the nineteenth century in a small American town with the fictional name of Hadleyburg.…

has concepts that are both familiar and foreign to those in other parts of the globe. There is perhaps no text that displays the different aspects of this view of the world better than the Nyanga tale, The Mwindo Epic. Through the use of tradition, moral lessons, and ceremony, The Mwindo Epic is the perfect introduction to the African worldview. So what is the African worldview? To start, it is a collection of ideas, traditions, and beliefs that all contribute to a unique understanding of the…