Rational function

practical application of what is moral. Through this paper it will be clear that morality is crucial to our successful function on this earth as it is ration and helps us achieve our ultimate goal. One needs to be moral to achieve happiness, by following utilitarianism, Aristotle and ethics and the human emotion of guilt. It should also be noted that acting morally is the only rational option, this can be proved by Immanuel Kant, Plato’s the Republic and the Moral Sense Theory. The ultimate…

Class, This week’s assignment was a discussion on three (3) unique characteristics of criminal justice agencies that have characteristics of bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is defined “as a government characterized by specialization of functions, adherence to fixed rules, and a hierarchy of authority” (staff, 2017) In my research I found that every Criminal Justice agency has a type of bureaucracy in it system. In every Bureaucracy, every task is broken down into multiple levels into a type of…

Fear and the Legalization of Marijuana I cower at the top of the stairs in utter terror. What is going on? Why are my parents yelling at my brother? He stands in the hallway with his head down, as stoic as ever. He never gives a response and does not even look at them as they yell and scream in front of him. My dad is almost blue in the face from the effort. What are they saying? What was that about drugs? That really sent my panic going. What stupid thing did Joseph do now? Almost 7 years my…

During the Age of Enlightenment, writers and philosophers in Western Europe published works focusing on individualism and its relation to moral philosophy. Immanuel Kant investigated principles of deontological ethics, which relate to duty and moral obligation. In Kant’s work Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals he focuses specifically on the concept of the good will. In his work the reader finds that is a multi-faceted moral concept, that lays the foundation for all of Kant’s arguments.…

Zolpidem is a sedative, also called a hypnotic (‘Zolpidem’ 2015). According to Du et al. (2014), Zolpidem is a type of prescription medication used for the treatment of various brain disorders and insomnia. Zolpidem was discovered using ‘rational drug design’. Rational drug design is an inventive process of finding new medications based on the knowledge of a biological target (Madsen et al. 2002). According to Olsson (n.d.), researchers were studying mice under the influence of drugs when they…

Aristotle believes that everything has a characteristic function. For example a hammers function is to hammer things. He comes to the conclusion that a human 's characteristic function is reason. In order to be good one must be an expert at their characteristic function, which is reason. Virtue is important in that it leads to the good life. For someones action to be virtuous, the action must follow 3 guidelines…

government cannot control and provides people protection from the government. On the other hand, civil rights are obligations required by civil society for civil participation to be achieved and require the government to be a part of in order to function properly. The difference between a civil liberty and a civil right is a civil liberty is a protection from the government and is considered to be natural privilege, however, a civil right involves the government to work with the people and is a…

3. Extensions & applications 3.1.1 Schumpeter ’s contribution on capitalism and decay of the capitalism Schumpeter explained the chief characteristic of capitalism was the conduct of economic actors. The economic actors implemented new combinations. The banks provided financing channel to the entrepreneurs. Economic performance could be evaluated by total output within a year. The role of entrepreneurship was to pursue long-lasting increase of total output. If the society did not accept the…

contemplation of History, is the simple conception of Reason; that Reason is the Sovereign of the World; that the history of the world, therefore, presents us with a rational process” (Hegel 22). Comparing anything to the sovereign of the world means its must hold tremendous weight. Hegel sees reason as something the world cannot function without as well as being life’s goal. Everything can be explained using reason and once people see things that way the goal will be accomplished. In that sense…

This is due to the fact that a life is at stake and we, as humans, must decide if we are justified to take that life, while in the process inflicting suffering, in order to benefit society as a whole. We must almost play God, in a sense, in deciding which animal lives are expendable and which are valuable enough to allow to remain living. This ethical dilemma almost assigns a value to life. The debate over animal rights asks if it is worth killing innocent animals in order to benefit such…