Pacifism

Oneida John Noyes ‘Complex marriage’ Dictator Worldly Communities Robert Owen New Harmony ‘New moral world’ Women’s rights and education Religion and Reform Second great awakening was a large influence Perfection Improvement for society Prohibition, pacifism, abolition Reform - respectable Critics of Reform Attack of freedom Catholics against movement Reformers…

only to find your sister being severely beaten by an unknown man. In this moment, you have to make the decision either to try and save your sister from any further harm or to run and avoid conflict. To make matters worse, you strongly believe in pacifism and have never engaged in any physical violence. What do you do? Do you sacrifice your values to rescue your loved one? In Life of Pi, Piscine Molitor Patel is forced into a similar, yet even more complicated predicament on his lifeboat. While…

SLIDE ONE / TWO: MORALS IN A BOTTLE Tonight’s presentation on Moral Enhancement will highlight some of the key concerns in this field of research, whilst also introducing the concept to those of you less familiar with the idea. Then (SLIDE TWO) we will consider some of the ethical and legal problems associated with the ideas of changing the way our brains handle moral decisions. SLIDE THREE: STRUCTURE Our structure for tonight will first introduce the idea of moral enhancement, before moving on…

crucial in creating during the Manhattan project. He believed that like the tragic hero Arjun, he ought to fulfill his duty to society to take part in a fight that was not his own. Oppenheimer did not believe in his creation, being inclined toward pacifism. In fact, immediately afterward, he suggested a weaker weapon should have been used as warning first for Japan, and became an outspoken critic of nuclear power. Still, he felt not only obligated but happy to deal with the immense task of…

pressures: revenues from taxing agriculture and trade that were inadequate in maintaining the large military and army of bureaucrats. Perhaps palace politics reduced the ability of Asoka's heirs to govern. Perhaps Asoka's heirs inherited from Asoka a pacifism that discouraged their using force in keeping the Maurya Empire together. Whatever the cause or causes, regions within the empire asserted their independence, and the empire disintegrated while the Maurya family, in Pataliputra, continued…

not belong to the Doctrine of Virtue. While Kant is clear that ethical behavior cannot be forced upon anyone, he seems to still suggest that there must be times when one is justified in coercing others to act a certain way. A world of complete pacifism does not appear to accord with the Kantian view. This is fundamentally the question that the Doctrine of Right is designed to answer, when and how is coercion justified within his account of the moral law. Kant argues that right should be…

characterised by sinocentrism, pacifism and inclusionism, all constitutive of an exceptionalist outlook, while Revolutionary China became characterised by great power entitlement and moral superiority, again argued to be constitutive of an exceptionalist outlook (Zhang 2011, 310). Zhang (2011, 310) argues that contemporary China, although continuing to evolve and adapt, has and will continue to be marked by exceptionalism in the form of great power reformism, benevolent pacifism and harmonious…

(fission). However, one of Hitler’s mistakes was his persecution of Jewish scientists. This persecution resulted in numerous scientists seeking asylum in the United States. One such scientist was Albert Einstein. Einstein, abandoning his belief in pacifism, then urged president Franklin Roosevelt to develop an atomic bomb before Hitler did. Eventually, Roosevelt agreed and the United States began attempting at building the atomic bomb. The mission was codenamed The Manhattan Project. So now…

Approximately 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans in Southern states inhabited an unequal world of segregation and oppression. In the decade and a half that followed, civil rights activists used nonviolent protest and civil disobedience to bring about change. Many leaders from the African American community became dominant during the Civil rights era. They risked their lives for freedom and equality. This movement had roots of African slaves and their descendants to…

John Stuart Mill, a British philosopher and political economist from the 1800’s once wrote, “War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse.” (Mill, 1868) Mill goes on to explain the difference between a war that degrades men, and one that honors them. A degrading war is one in which generals use the men like instruments to implement their own desires. An honoring war is…