Moral responsibility

Our Moral Responsibility In today’s era there can be millions of interpretations of the words “just” and “unjust”. Do we really know what these two words mean? No, because we are told many definitions but we aren’t convinced that those definitions are a great fit for the words “just” and “unjust”. Martin Luther King discusses the meaning of these two words in the letter he wrote while in Birmingham jail. While reading the text I came upon the definitions he mentions and I agree with the terms…

his job; Detective Ben Price was hot on his case. However, when Jimmy meets Annabel Adams, he has a change of heart and his world flips. Jimmy Valentine was truly dedicated to living a moral life because he made sacrifices, showed compassion, and took responsibility for his actions. Jimmy was devoted to living a moral life because he made sacrifices. The first thing he sacrificed was his old villainous job for a new normal one. Jimmy explains in…

A flawed moral code is almost guaranteed because of the limitations of ethics and ethical theories (that we have so far) which have not yet been overcome with an objective solution by philosophers and theorists. Without having full consciousness of the significance or context of our actions, could we still have moral responsibility (Edmonds)? If a person with somnambulism (sleepwalking disorder) does something unconsciously, can they be held morally responsible for it (Edmonds)? Moral…

Levels of Kohlberg's stages of Moral Development The first level is the moral/ preconvention. The moral values in this stage are inherent in the quasi-physical and external events. Here, people are supposed to adhere to the rules and assess the labels and regard them regarding the unpleasant or pleasant actions (Shaffer,2004). This level has three stages. The stages include obedience and orientation of punishment, naively egoistic adjustment and current stage. These steps can be incorporated…

Harper Lee discusses tough moral topics like racism and prejudice views, through the eyes of a child. The character Scout demonstrates a child’s obligation to pursue morality. But a child’s moral obligations depend on their moral foundation. Because children are naïve, they see situations ingenuously, unlike adults imbued with prejudice or racist ideas. Because Scout is a child she has that sense of naivety but can be more accountable for what she does because of the moral foundation. In light…

by which humans regulate whether given actions, are right or wrong.” Moral values and graciousness, in the past, were prominent in most teenagers. Every man has the potential for growth. But a seed cannot grow without nurturing. And farmers don’t get to neglect their crops. So moral values are implanted from infancy. Childhood is the time at which moral standards begin to develop…

be made during the planning of World Petroleum’s business ideas in Afrinia. While the company has made it clear that their main goal is to be profitable for the shareholders, there were still moral aspects to every decision that needed to be made. To me the most important ethical dilemma is developing a moral compass for the company and sticking to it, for example: how to approach the difference in the northern (Banu) and southern (Abani) cultures, dealing with officials, and the environment.…

a spectrum of shades of gray. When an individual loses control of their destiny, decisions that seem black and white suddenly enter into this gray area, but an outsider looking in may still see everything as black and white. This individual’s responsibility is to discern the shades of gray that create the black and white, to truly observe where the injustice…

he argues that any kind of suffering from lack of food, healthcare and shelter is a bad thing. He further argues that if we have the ability to prevent something bad from happening, that it is our duty as moral beings to prevent suffering unless we have to sacrifice something of significant moral importance. In class we called it the prevent suffering principle. An example that Singer gives is of the prevent suffering principle is to imagine a young child drowning in a shallow pond. He goes on…

In this exegesis I will show that Nagel’s argument is centered around the relationship between moral luck and the condition of control, where he highlights the inherent conflict between them. In Nagel’s paper, titled Moral Luck, he defines moral luck as when one’s actions lead them to be treated as an object of moral judgement, despite significant factors which strip them of the condition of control (Nagel, 26). The condition of control states that there is an agreeable array of factors that can…