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independent voters and smaller parties that focus on more specific issues. On a micro perspective, political parties should allow individuals to vote and make decisions on what would improve their lives the most, which is the basis of Max Weber’s rational choice theory. Karl Marx would view politics from a macro…

Powell, Kaitlin R. 21 October 2015 Ethics Midterm Paper Growing up, our guardians instill in us the difference between right and wrong. While we are developing, our role models teach us a moral code that is meant to be followed. They tell us things like “don’t lie”, “don’t steal”, etc. These things become our basis for action regarding the world around us. Our actions become our morality. Ethics is the study of morality--how humans ought to act. It is the study of morality, prudence (what is in…

Racism is Morally Wrong Many years ago Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel stated that “racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason” (Abraham Joshua Heschel). Today that statement still rings true here in America. Despite centuries of moral and social progress millions of people still live under the yoke of prejudice and racist acts that continuously have us living in a state of perpetual chaos. Racism is philosophically incompatible with a majority of the…

of these theories is called the “Rational Theory”. Rational Cause or "choice theory" developed by 18th century Italian philosopher and politician, Cesare Becarria says, “Rational cause theory purports that the offender makes a choice to commit a criminal act upon examining options, consequences and benefits. The offender then plans the crime by consciously picking the type of crime, location of the crime and target of the crime, and…

rules (104).” In other words, all individuals must uphold an unconditional good, to do this, one must be a rational person. A key factor relating to Kant’s theory, is that an individual may not interfere with another’s’ goals or objectives that a person may have. In addition, Kant discusses the moral rules that all autonomous and rational…

apart from being a moral agent that makes it wrong for him to be euthanized by another? Their response to this is the possession of "a rational nature" despite the fact that not all human beings can have it actualized and although certain conditions such as mental disability might put this at mute, every human being has moral worth or dignity based on this rational nature inherent in us all 81 Their position that although animal interest in suffering should not be overlooked, based on that alone…

century Francophone Genevan philosopher. This quote portrays a significant difference between the world of dreams and the world of realities. The world of imagination is boundless, meaning it has no limits and no rational ideas are suspended while in reality there are limits and rational ideas. We can see this viewpoint in many sources of entertainment today, but it just isn’t a conflict which has appeared recently, it has been challenging humanity since the beginning of time. An author, F.…

One's soul is made up of three parts: the rational, the spirited and the appetitive/passionate. Justice is formed when the rational rules, the spirit serves reason, and temptation and appetite exist in moderation, guided by reason. A man is therefore just to himself when he allows his rational part to make decisions and for his spirit to fight for and give courage to such decisions. Injustice, according to Socrates…

In Aristotle 's ethics, Book 1: the theory of happiness, Aristotle claims that there are some aims in the nature of man that influences every movement of the mind and every activity of the body, consciously or unconsciously. A man is incessantly striving to attain a ‘good’ or purpose of existence. According to Aristotle, there is a point in the purposes of man where the gradation of good (lower goods becoming subordinate to higher ones) ceases. It is this very point in man’s life where the mind…

In this paper, I take the position that ethical objectivism is true, using Harry J. Gensler’s theory for ethical objectivism, the Golden Rule (GR) Intuitionism. I will first present Gensler’s argument, explaining why his argument is sound and proves ethical objectivism. I will then introduce what I consider to be the strongest argument against Gensler’s theory, David Hume’s argument of how Moral Motivation Undermines Moral Objectivity. I will then attempt to show how the argument does not show…