Pre-Socratic philosophy

This essay will set out to prove that Mill’s belief that our moral imperative is to maximize net happiness without accounting for equal distribution, regardless of certain individuals’ happiness, is incorrect. It will be shown that Mill’s argument system for deciding this is flawed, and that it lacks vital definitions that determine the basis of the argument. This essay concludes that without these proper definitions for happiness or pleasure, and without a way of quantifying these, it is…

Figure 2 : One of Example Pua Kumbu as a Symbolize in Iban Society According to Rodolphe Rapetti in his book “Symbolism” he said that symbolism was part of a work of a wave of reaction against doctirinal positivism, whose backbone had been the scientific analysis of facts verified through experimental. Besides that, according to Edward Lucia-Smith, the symbolist movement, modernism has nevertheless been hostile to the symbol as a means of visual communication. The rise of abstract art, in…

Question 1 a. Management Accountants have an obligation to follow the highest standards of ethical responsibility and maintain good professional image. They also should not condone the commission of unethical acts by others within their organizations. It is obvious that falsifying travelling reimbursement claim by Mustapha was unethical conduct and I, as a professional that have been entrusted by the company’s shareholders to safeguard the company’s interests and well-being, should therefore…

There is a language which different groups of people speak all around the world called ethics that everyone has from religious leaders to gangsters and serial killers. They affect how people make decisions and lead their lives. Every day, we make decisions and evaluate their reasons and results on a case-by-case. Sometimes, we argue about what is ethical in which case and at the end, we run into big contradictions between right and wrong such as on abortion, terrorism, euthanasia, death…

She believed that the stateless future was not preordained by iron laws of history, but was rather to be the conscious creation of a population which had been morally awakened. This necessary morality, based upon honesty, decency, self-respect, and individual responsibility, was believed to be an inherent part of the working class—something to be developed and emphasized. She also possesses decency and kindness so that no act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted and living the truth…

Maturity of Religiosity within Society. Imagine a world without religion nor law! How can we distinguish from good or bad, right or wrong? Thus, where else can learn our values and our sense of morality without the both. It is a challenging question to answer; nonetheless in this world, we do have religion and a vast majority of individuals learn their core values through the very faith they choose to follow. Religion helps people connect, maintain morality, share values, and become closer…

In his concise but very satisfying essay, “On the immorality of the Soul” Hume presents many sharp and brief arguments against considerations of afterlife. He offers them within three successive sections; moral, physical and metaphysical. He argues that there is no reason at all to think that the soul is immoral, except that the Bible says it is, so it must be true. But in reality, it is the gospel and the gospel alone that has brought life and immorality to light (Hume, 590). Firstly, there…

Andrew Niccol presents Gattaca as a world destroyed by the pursuit of perfection and raises the question of what it means to be human. Niccol explores how personal identity and happiness are destroyed by pursuing perfection through the characters of Irene, Vincent and Jerome. Irene and Vincent struggled with their personal identities because of their genetic imperfections and Eugene suffered from the burden of perfection. Nonetheless, Niccol shows that these issues with perfection and…

The disinclination of humans to question the information they perceive is a timeless phenomenon. This concept dates back to 380 BC, when Plato wrote the short story, “Allegory of the Cave”, in his magnum opus, The Republic. The allegory depicts humankind as prisoners, bound so they can only see what is directly in front of them: shadows cast by various objects passing behind them. However, as they have only ever been exposed to the shadows, the prisoners believe they are the true forms of each…

defend tolerance as a result of the mistakes from the different wars of religion. It is in this perspective that John Locke wrote his Letter on Tolerance, and I am going to try to analyse it. This Letter is part of the field of moral and political philosophy and its purpose is about religious tolerance. According to the Oxford dictionary, toleration is: ‘’The practice of tolerating something, in particular differences of opinion or behaviour’’.…