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Are man made things to be trusted?
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Ok this may seem complicated but it makes sense if ya think about it. Go back to the cave man days, no technology, primitive way of thinking, survival his only concern. Boom one day he DISCOVERS fire,... |
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Famous PhilosophersFriendship Philosopher
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You can find an extensive discussion on friendship in Aristotle's, "Nicomachean Ethics". I hope that helps. |
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Ethics & MoralityThe five fingers of ethics
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I have reduced my complete ethical system to five basic principles; the five fingers of ethics
Briefly, these five principles are
-the thumb: the universalist imperative: do what everyone should hav... |
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ScriptsSunday: a one act
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Since a couple people have asked...
I do have a few other pieces on here. I have a story entitled Anatomy of Death and a longer one act (24 pages) in five scenes called the Game of Ethics posted un... |
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Ethics & MoralityEthics: DARE YOU IGNORE IT?
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It would be remarkable if ethics were - as you seem to be saying - contingent, to be cashed out qua the individual in question, and yet there being laws which apply equally to all. Are such laws value... |
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BooksTYPER'S CORNER
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i hate Nike! no other company has such poor standards. such poor working conditions. such worthless/non exsistent work ethics.
on a somewhat related note, Micheal Moore is my idol. *clown* |
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God in ReligionQuestioning his Behaviour
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Atheists also are subject to the moral code created by God
Etherealmeekle: Wrong. Some ethics may conform each other, yet Athiests have no direct connection to a deity. Your justification for this is... |
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God in ReligionQuestioning his Behaviour
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To help answer you question Petesmith:
Athiest ethics usually boils down to 'Me first, always!' ideology. Atheists may have exactly the same views about what counts as good and bad, and may... |
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Alternative BeliefsWhat do you believe?
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mate my life's purpose is through my own experiences, not what it says in a book 2000yrs ago. I don't need to be desperately hanging on and be dependent on a deity to help me guide my way th... |
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Alternative BeliefsGod = The Universe
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Yeah but science is aside from reason by reason I mean common sense the soft sciences like philosophy particularly ethics and psychology of the human mind as well as literature, religions are just boo... |
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Ethics & MoralityEthics: DARE YOU IGNORE IT?
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But you're missing the point. You're throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Throw out ethics and you deprive yourself of any notion of rational action. WHY obey the law? Is it just confor... |
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Ethics & MoralityEthics: DARE YOU IGNORE IT?
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I believe pupa ria is a allududing to whatever metephysyical stance a person tends to hold. Most people, to my mind and philosiphers like voltaire beleive that the human maind and there for morality a... |
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What's wrong with the world? How do we change
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We can focus on greed, stupidity, laziness, irresponsiblity, selfishness OR we can give our attention to creativity, constructive solutions, optimistic attitudes, and a gradual evolution toward a harm... |
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As soon as I think I'm out th pull me back in
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Build your resolve, root it iin your personal ethics about what you want in life, what you value, what kind of relationship you want with God and people.
Forgiveness will come through trying.
You&#... |
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Ethics & MoralityEthics: DARE YOU IGNORE IT?
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First off, the question should be "dare you ignore them?" Ethics is plural. Secondly, society has given us a set of rules that apply to everyone, so what difference does an individual's... |
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Ethics & MoralityWhy didn't traditional Marxist theory focus on ethical values?
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The simple answer would be that within Marxist theory economic conditions determine ethical values, hence the focus of Marxist theory was on economics.
With that said, Marxism is all about the repe... |
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GovernmentPolitics and Ethics
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The only thing better than provoking a debate is ending a debate. I fear the latter honour will prove beyond me. But few issues are more important than the one I intend to tackle here. A good index of... |
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Can Someone Truly Be Different?
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If you disregarded the physical features of humans and grouped us according to our pleasures, fears, ethics and so on, we would all have someone like us. This leads me to believe that we are not diffe... |
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GovernmentObama is a Communist - should we really vote for him?
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"i mean that if one were to take a little bit of time out of their day and look at where the majority of what product they buy is coming from that you are really buying into communism when one sh... |
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BooksTYPER'S CORNER
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wesdawgy is mia...? now im confused :(
i read that great recipe of yours in some earlier post Em. ill have to give it a try! ill eat just about anything once *lol*
in my ethics class today we... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsA few question, interested in everybody's opinions
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Some more questions to get you started;
Religion - What does faith ask of me?
Science - has information replaced faith?
Technology - does it enslave or set us free?
Philosophy - What is th... |
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Gender PsychologyWhy was The Pill Developed for Women and Not Men?
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Wasn’t there talk of a male pill not that long ago but then there were problems? I’m not informed but I think the reason is just down to it being technologically easier to achieve.
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Religion & HumanityWhy I don't preach anymore
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What we base as 'true', is only a perception. Probability is only an interpretation. We identify probabilities with degrees of confidence or partial beliefs.
Of course, we must ask what... |
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Atheism & AgnosticismThe last leg for Atheism
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Only the individual can determine what is right and wrong because they have seen all the circumstances. In some instances I'm sure it's ok to murder someone and there's an awful lot of... |
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GovernmentPoltical Philosophy
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In the 1950s Peter Laslett announced that \"political philosophy, at least for the moment, is dead\"; and whatever the protetastions to the contrary, and the fact the discipline experienced... |
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