Normative

Woody Allen’s “Crimes and Misdemeanors” intertwines two stories. The first involves a man named Judah. Judah is a wealthy ophthalmologist and family man who has had created a wonderful normal family life. Until later on he gets a letter from Dolores, a women he had a affair with several-years. Dolores threatens Judah that she will go public regarding the affair. Judah’s also has shady financial dealings which Dolores will also reveal unless Judah leaves his wife. Judah calls on his mobster of a…

and insidious nature of the dominant gender hierarchy and the gender binary. Kagan, on the other hand, presents the viewpoint that barebacking redefines masculinity itself and develops a new ‘queer masculinity’ or ‘queer erotics’ that transcends normative masculinity (Kagan, Chapter…

through Ron Blue’s four steps he puts forth in Just Politics (Sider 24). Regardless of religion or political ideology, citizens need to piece together a normative framework, study society and the world through broad lenses, develop a political philosophy based upon their studies, and then analyze social issues accordingly. Developing a normative framework requires that one has some moral authority, being Natural Law or some sort of religious belief. Climate change is more of a current issue,…

The three ethical theories were made by three famous philosophers Aristotle, John Stuart Mill, and Immanuel Kant. These three philosophers are arguably the most famous philosophers in the branch of normative ethics. Normative ethics deals with the moral standards that regulate our actions and categorize them as whether they’re right or wrong. The theories of ethics consist of Aristotle's Virtue Ethics, Mill's Utilitarianism, and Kant's Deontological Ethics. I believe that Aristotle’s theory is…

non-lethal method of obtaining vital information that has proven to prevent loss of life. Therein lays the moral conundrum and the question to be answered: Is it morally defensible to use waterboarding as an interrogation technique? There are several normative ethical theories but the one that most closely aligns with the moral defense of waterboarding is consequentialism, which states that the moral value of an act is…

In her article, Peggy McIntosh, puts light on the unacknowledged phenomena known as “white privilege”. She carries out an analogy between male privilege and white privilege. Males in the society unconsciously deny the fact that they are overprivileged at the expense of women. Even if they might accept the fact that women are disadvantaged, they would never support the idea of lessening their own status in the society. Similarly, white people enjoy their unearned privilege as they are in a state…

Every day, people find something about themselves that they wish they could change, and in order to change or improve something, they must find the motivation to come up with and follow a plan to benefit their future. Motivation to achieve a goal or succeed at a task can rely heavily on the self-determination theory, which is comprised of three elements: autonomy, competence, and relatedness (Reeve, 2015). There are two types of motivation: intrinsic motivation, which is an internal motivation,…

Meta-ethics is the moral state of wrong or right, for example; it is right to kill a human being or tell lies. Normative ethics develop the moral beliefs based on a judgment of an individual 's behaviour; for example, Mr K reaction to Mrs K wanted an abortion. (Reath and Johnson, 2011). Professional ethics should maintain at a level of requirement which should be provided…

tests. MMPI-2 was designed to primarily focus on the assessment of adults, but also is effective for adolescents (Archer, 2014). The authors had several goals and ideas they wanted to focus on while developing the MMPI-2. They wanted to obtain a normative sample, preserve sufficient continuity from the first MMPI, which would allow for generalizability about past research on the original MMPI (Archer, 2014). In addition, the authors wanted…

themselves within the guidelines of a third sex or gender, preferring instead to fit the standards of male and female binaries (Kulick, 1997:580). However, travestis also do not identify themselves as transgender. The difference between these non-normative conceptions of gender and sexuality is found at the core of their identities: while travesti individuals define themselves by their sexual preferences, transgender individuals are defined by the anatomy of their sex and how it manifests in…