Moral

In Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" he uses various comedic devices to create comedy; most noticeably melodrama and farce. These devices are used excessively in order to repeatedly address serious matters in a light-hearted manner; Wilde does this to create humour as opposed to offending his audience. Wilde deliberately wrote the play in this manner as he was fully conscious that his audience consisted of upper class Victorians. Throughout the play, Oscar Wilde articulately…

right moral judgement is, in the eyes of utilitarians. For utilitarians, the right action, as stated, would be the one that brings the most pleasure to the individual. In this example, that would be killing the hostage that has caused the abductor mass turmoil in their life. If the utilitarian were to amend their position, it would essentially mean going against what their principles revolve around, which is seeking pleasure and diminishing pain for anybody. There is also the issue of moral…

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…

philosopher, Peter Singer, supports the proposition that our moral intuitions are masked with the default face of guilt. For Singer to help support his argument, he uses Josh Greene’s study of fMRI imaging to better determine what exactly happens in the mind when given a certain circumstance. Jonathan Haidt’s incest predicament also assists in support of the disguise to what exactly these moral “truths” can have upon one’s deliberation. Our moral instincts, prima facie, tip the scales in…

unjust meaning its not morally wrong. There is a difference in a desire and a moral obligation. We define a desire as a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen. We define a obligation as an act or course of action to which a person is morally or legally bound; a duty or commitment. We as humans have many desires but fewer moral obligations. A desire is much more different than a moral obligation. We sometimes believe there are desires but we have no right…

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…

he believes that there are aspects that should be commended. In the chapters 3-6, Taylor discusses how individualism is more just the center of the 3 malaises, rather its social, collective and moral. In these chapters, Taylor addresses his critics by arguing that individualism does not solely lead to moral subjectivism and soft relativism. Taylor also states that critics must acknowledge that individualism is morality if they seek to argue against it. In chapter 3, Taylor develops his argument…

Rulli and Millum (2014) makes a point to include the sports car example demonstrating people’s way of thinking. The majority believe the agent has a moral duty to sacrifice his sports car to save the child. Even though, the agent endures a greater personal cost that is outweighed by his moral duty to the child. With this in mind, the agent may not believe the damage to the sports car is worth the risk to save the child, as a consequence, he may not feel morally obligated to do so. Thenceforth,…

harmful burden to human life. My first argument asserts that Freud solely focuses on the external societal demands of morality, but neglects that morality also comes from within. Secondly, although Freud is correct in some of his assumptions about moral restriction, he only focuses on the negative aspects and disregards the positivity that can come from these constraints. Lastly, I argue that Freud exaggerates his claims about the nature of humans, and wrongly universalizes the suppression of…

interested in Aesop’s Fables from Greece since I was a child. The fables in Aesop’s collection usually have simple context, but they reveal deep meanings. My passion of reading fables was inspired by my grandpa, who was always trying to educate me with morals. Every time I went visit him, he would spend a long time telling me stories about the fox that could not reach the grapes, or the grasshopper who did not prepare food for the winter. As I grow up, my curiosity of fables has been increased.…