Morality refers to the concept of proper human action in terms of "right and wrong," also mentioned as “good and evil. According to Hobbes (1994:11), morality is expounded as a set of rules and beliefs which are absolute guides for human behaviour. According to Hare (1981:27), “Morality is structure of assumption and verdicts based on cultural, religious, and opinions, by which humans regulate whether given actions, are right or wrong.” Moral values and graciousness, in the past, were prominent…
Thales is the Greek philosopher, he is the first person to investigate the basic principles, the question of the substance of matter, and he foundered the school of natural philosophy. He is in among seven sages of Greece. He did research almost all areas of knowledge, mathematics, politics, history, science, engineering, and philosophy. He suggested concepts to explain many of the events of nature, the main substance, the support of the earth, and the cause of change. Water was his first…
It is known that, there is no hesitation that ethical business practices are important to overall soceity well-being and positive ethical behaviour of leaders must be encourage and given attention by the company. Based on Sardy et al. (2010) negative ethical behavior may lead to business losses and embrassing scandals. In the present business environment, all business leaders throughout the world are faced daily with ethical issues at work environment, and sometimes they are uncertain on how to…
King Lear: A Revelatory Journey of Man from Materialism to Meditation Tragedy as a genre is never solely based on a protagonist. By discussing an event in the life of an individual tragedy addresses the challenges faced by mankind relating it to human existence in the universe. Thus tragedy encompasses human existence. One of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies King Lear shows the heart wrenching downfall of a king as the price he pays for the attainment of spiritual transcendence. Shakespeare,…
The relationship between Vitalism, and the opposing Mechanism in the eighteenth through twentieth centuries was complex, and often fraught with the confounding effects of religion. Depending on the social and historical context, vitalism has either been radically opposed to accepted Christian teachings, or a very quaint, and somewhat religious pseudo-scientific explanation for biological phenomena. In some sense, it seems as though the very concept of vitalism is analogous to the belief in…
Essay Concerning the Subjectivity of Morality The debate of whether morality is subjective or objective has been hotly debated for many centuries since humans often base their actions off of their personal values. Are these personal values inherent across all of mankind? Those who take the side of moral objectivism would say that this statement is true and that we share a deeply rooted ethical code no matter our background. However, moral subjectivists, such as Mackie, would disagree with this…
Which approach offers the most compelling account of the normative force of our associative obligations: ethical universalism or ethical particularism? A traditional conception of morality constitutes a particular fundamental set of values universal to every individual so that all persons should be treated with fair and unprejudiced examination for their well-beings or interests respectively. As opposed to the above ethical universalism’s view, ethical particularism suggests that morality of…
Question 1: One of the biggest types of questions we see into today’s society is an ethical dilemma. An ethical dilemma is a problem that involves making a decision that is between a strongly felt subject, or moral. For example, the subject that this paper is mainly focused on is if there should or should not be a “fat tax”. This subject is an example of ethical dilemma that does not have a wrong or right answer, it is just based on a moral decision. It is a dilemma that must be analyzed because…
ethical philosophy of Japanese feudalism called Bushido code, literally translates into the way of the warrior. The code controls the behavior and protocol of the military guards of the shogun known as Samurai. The book of the samurai, Hagakure, written by Yamamoto Tsunetomo claimed that Bushido code is frequently been compared to the code of chivalry of the European knights with the similar aim to provide a code of honor and rules for living for the country’s armed forces. The philosophy of…
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave offered meaningful insight into the education process. To begin the allegory, Plato proposed that a group of prisoners were chained and unable to move because of these chains. They could only gaze upon one thing, the shadows which were projected onto the wall by a fire set above and behind them. These shadows were of various different items that were being carried by people behind a wall that enabled only the shadows of the items to be projected. Since the prisoner…