Prudence

For example, Pope Innocent the III put forward the proposition that "the secular power can, without mortal sin, exercise judgment of blood, provided that it punishes with justice, not out of hatred, with prudence, not precipitation." (Christianity and capital punishment.) This was further reinforced in 1566 when the Roman Catechism stated that the power of life and death had been entrusted to the civil authorities, and the use of this power does not equal…

Ross, Rosetta E. Witnessing and Testifying: Black Women, Religion, and Civil Rights. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003. Print. Thesis: Studies of the Civil Rights Movement that have treated religious self-understanding do not examine the role of an African American religious worldview and gendered; particularly Black women’s, interaction with Black religious traditions and institutions and with U.S. social life. Substantive Questions: 1.) Would the Civils Right Movement been as successful without…

In Aristotle 's Nicomachean Ethics he presents his idea of happiness and what he believes happiness is, Aristotle believes human happiness is a choice worthy end, an end is a something that is that is self-sufficient all by itself and lacks nothing. Happiness is completely self-sufficient and an end is possibly achieved by action, it also satisfies every desire and has no account of evil combined with it. He believes that happiness comes from the goods of the soul, the goods of the soul come…

correct way of handle this problem. Keeping the staff and residents’ safe during his/her shift is the priority of the nursing supervisor. Moral ideals: In a nursing profession, nurse hold an oath stating “Do no Harm”. The nursing supervisor lacks prudence, loving kindness, compassion, and beneficence. The nursing supervisor did not use good judgement when she had ordered nurses to give tranquilizer to residents not considering the risk of danger that she is putting the residents in as well as…

Socrates is a notorious philosopher that was born in Athens, Greece. He dedicated his life to truly understanding the human mind and oneself. Despite being presumed as the 'wisest man on earth ' by the Oracle of Delphi, his aphorism was that he knew nothing, about anything. Having this mentality enabled his conscious mind to explore the unconscious and rationalize human intention. In this composition I am going to explore the sum and substance of Socrates theories in which he devoted his…

Most people have trouble distinguishing deceit from lying. Both are prevalent today, whether the intent is there or not. Deception is the intent to mislead when the truth is known, whereas lying attempts to avoid the harm of what the truth may inflict upon themselves. Sissela Bok’s “On Truth-Telling” is a prime reading that showcases greed for power that happens in modern-day life. Through this selection, Bok outlines scenarios where deception is practiced for gain or lying is used to spare the…

ISU Reading Response Journal Two Summary: In the beginning of the story, the members of the Dashwood family were introduced. Firstly, the house owner Mr. Henry Dashwood had two wives. The first wife left him with a son named John and with his second wife, Mrs. Dashwood, they had three daughters named Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret. After Mr. Henry Dashwood’s death, his eldest child, John inherited the house. Then, Sir John Middleton invited Mrs. Dashwood and her daughters to live in his…

Plato’s Meno is a dialogue between philosopher Socrates and politician Meno, in their attempts to disclose the definition of virtue and whether it can be taught or not. When Socrates inquires what virtue is, Meno is only able to give examples of virtue. First, he lists the different types of virtue that exist in men, women, and children; since people have differing tasks and activities given to them, they must all have differing respective virtues. In response, Socrates gives an example about…

In Plato’s Republic, Glaucon tells the tale of a shepherd who finds a ring that makes him invisible and uses it to become the king of his country through unjust means. Glaucon believes that this parable shows that if people were given the opportunity to do injustice with impunity they would choose to do so without fail, because in his formulation injustice is a better way of securing one’s desires than justice is. Put another way, people who are able to do injustice with impunity would…

When Shawn “Jay Z” Carter and Kanye West proclaimed their membership to the new black elite, they were being modest in their declaration because the Hip Hop echelon had arrived long before 2011. Many of them had not only accumulated a vast amount of wealth a decade prior, but took part in the shift in qualities that determined ones elite status. This alteration from the previous black elite during the fourth wave first emerged when the Hip Hop generation was born. It ultimately came full circle…