Moral responsibility

Leading citizens the right to claim that they didn’t realize the law. Through Collodi’s Pinocchio kids learned early the stories based on laws and morals which taught that being a well-behaved individual will get you out of sticky and unfortunate situations. A main cultural value for Italians was the perception of the public from an outsider looking in. This was made quite evident in Book II of the…

his argument that “if it is in our power to prevent something very bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything else morally significant, we ought, morally, to do it,” (Cahn, 505). In his argument Singer claims that men have the moral responsibility to prevent suffering when it does not negatively impact “himself or his dependents” (Cahn, 508), and that the refusal of this prescribed human duty makes him morally incompetent. The extended example that Singer uses as the basis of his…

“A Critique of Utilitarianism”, Bernard Williams attempts to dismantle utilitarianism completely but refuting the fundamental principles of which it stands on. According to Williams, Utilitarianism requires the abandonment of moral integrity and allows negative responsibility to have much more weight than it should. In order to fully understand all aspects of this dispute, a brief explanation of utilitarianism must be laid out. It is then that we are able to look at Williams’ argument in which…

A Good Man Is Hard To Find Flannery O’Connor In Flannery O’Connor’s [“]A Good Man is Hard to Find,[“] there exist the characters whose motivation or personal desires conflict with their responsibilities. This paper will focus on one specific character in the text and this is [For example,] the grandmother who undertakes to convince her son, Bailey, and his wife to take their family to a vacation in East Tennessee rather than Florida. The story revolves around the mistakes of the…

THE EXISTENSE OF MORAL DUTY TO FEED THE HUNGRY When it comes to matters regarding the moral obligation of one feeding the starved, I am of the notion that they should be helped as it is one of the fundamental principles that make us human. However, this raises the issues to what extent should an individual help a stranger and does it imply that certain individuals in society bear a more obligatory duty than others. It also causes one to question his or her moral duties to others and the…

Moral luck is basically saying that you can morally hold a person responsible for any chain of actions, despite the circumstances and or factors. Whether you’re giving them the praises for said actions or whether you are putting the blame on them. Moral luck can create a contradiction, a paradox in society way of viewing the concept of moral responsibility. Nagel disagrees with the moral luck theory. Nagel believes that a person can really only be held fully responsible for what they do…

suggest that the state has a responsibility to legislate on the issue of pornography according to the social moral consensus, and will argue that such principles have no place in state legislature or what the state should restrict. I will then argue that state legislation on pornography with content that which isn't already illegal would be a state incursion into an individual's negative Liberty, which cannot be justified according to…

People often do or take parts in acts that are not only morally wrong but also extremely painful to the victim. When someone is order by a higher authority figure they do what was ordered forgetting about their morals and the consequences that it may have. It is important to understand that just because the order was given by a person with a high status or rank it doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do. In 1963 Stanly Milgram a psychologist at Yale University carried out an experiment where he…

The Southwestern tales, which are also known as Hispanic folktales, were first told around the early nineteenth century and are still told today. Presently, the folktales are used to instill moral lessons and the meanings of religions to people of different ages, especially young children. Jose Griego y Maestas collected and presented the tales “Los tres hermanos (The Three Brothers)” and “La comadre Sebastiana (Dona Sebastiana)” in Tales from the Hispanic Southwest. The tale of “Los tres…

help people with their needs, I also believe that we must first be ready to help out, in which we currently are not. Therefore, the United States does not have a moral responsibility to intervene in countries where human rights violations are occurring because we are in no state into helping as we have own problems, it is their responsibility to intervene, and we aren’t the world’s police officer. In order to help out those in need, we must first focus on our own country. As we all know,…