Predicted outcome value theory

Rafael needed to find something interesting to read. Her teacher had assigned her class to write an article on a book and Rafael wanted it to be a cleverly woven masterpiece. Rafael checked into her school’s library one day and carefully browsed through the selection of books until she found a book that was rumoured to be interesting and thought provoking. “The minute I opened the book and began reading the first words, I knew I was in for a literary delight”, Rafael says, “The words speak to a…

circle determine what actions are right or wrong themselves? In order to help us understand the structure behind moral philosophy, many theories of morality have been developed. I have elected to argue the Principle of Humanity as the most valid moral theory due to the fact that without following this formula humanity would be treated as objects of no intrinsic value, counteracting our superiority. According to Kantian’s, the Principle of Humanity is the ultimate moral formulation, claiming…

Kant’s theory is to apply categorical imperative and be followed regardless of particular wants and needs. During the act, one-night stand, both individuals is agreeing to satisfy and fulfill their needs with mutual understandings. If those individual are applying Kant’s theory, “means to end”, then those individual are accomplishing and fulfilling their duty to one-night stand. The one-night…

Metaethical Frameworks Metaethics is a question of not what should we do but why should we do it. It breaks the idea down that you decision is based on good and bad. But what is good and bad? Who determines what is good and bad? Is it an idea from inside of a person or group of people? If you determine that what is right for you might be wrong for someone else, who is right? Everyone has their own internal moral code that decides right and wrong. There are several questions that metaethics asks…

Saving life is our priority. It is our basic moral and ethical value. If we are seeing bad and remain silence that means, we also participate in crime. According to Stefan, “Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent”. From childhood, we were learned by our parents that it is wrong to tell lie and steal. It is our moral values. We can learn our values from our parents. Ethics is a set of values which motivates our work and actions and found the meaning and goal of our lives…

“Cooperation evolves, not because it’s “nice” but because it confers a survival advantage.” With this statement Joshua Greene, the author of “Moral Tribes”, speaks about how we as humans work together towards a common interest not because it’s pleasant, but because it’s the only way to get ahead. The way we deal with our problems and interact with others is heavily influenced by our morality. Our morality helps us decide how much trust to put into others and how we can help those around us.…

racism was happening in the world. She went back on to say that we in today world have an upper hand of life and that we just don’t know how good it is to have things changed. That will live in a far better life style that was in their time but the values that they were taught should still be a part of our…

will be set in motion if there are no choices to choose from. P2. The ability to make moral choices requires an individual to pick between two or more mutually exclusive actions with an outcome. A moral choice is the concept of choosing possibilities with an outcome, whether it be bad or good. Imagine an outcome where a robber told a bystander to kill a victim or the bystander would die. There are many choices involved in here. The robber can either chose to assault the victim…

Nietzsche does also offer some conclusions that would seem to go against the value of noble morality such as in (Genealogy, I §17) where he talks about how Napoleon is the perfect example of the problems that occur with the noble morality with its brutal nature. These criticisms suggest as (Kaufmann, 1974, p.297) puts it that “it does not follow from Nietzsche 's "vivisection" of slave morality that he identifies his own position with that of the masters” but rather that he focuses more on the…

Can a literary work be so far removed from our modern culture that it has nothing to offer it? Is our culture too advanced to learn a lesson from another generation? Value and meaning in literature are undoubtedly subjective. If we cannot learn a lesson or be reminded of some idea we had previously be told, literature seems to become irrelevant. But does the story “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor really fit into what we would consider irrelevant? At first glance, the story of a woman…