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SocietyCan the decline of morality truly render right/wrong as indistinguishable
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Most of us know the stories about the fall of the Roman Empire. In part, it was attributed to a decline in morals and ethics. It is the mainstream belief of historians, that this led to the eventual i... |
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Science vs ReligionReligion AND Science/ Relgion OR Science
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"To insist that the world is meaningful at its deepest level only if it is animated by the self-same personal, indubitably HUMAN principles that govern our own personal lives seems to me to be am... |
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War & TerrorismExcerp: Rape-Slaying in Iraq by US Soldiers
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No matter how pure principles are; living through our times whilst attemting to have principles or ethics will always endure an amount of hippocracy. Every time I start my car I'm doing harm from... |
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No random actions, none not based on underlying principles. |
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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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Ethics & MoralityEthics: DARE YOU IGNORE IT?
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Youve got to be kidding me... "Ethics" is made up just to keep people in line just like all beleifs in a higher power. Just a set of social rules silently agreed on. Soldiers are allowed to... |
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Ethics & MoralitySix Thoughts on Ethics
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1 Where there is no gravity, only those in chains are free.
2 We are all, we moderns, pebbles on the bottom of a stream: shaped, but unmoved by, the flow of events.
3 Ethics is on everybody's... |
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Ethics & MoralityThe moral hand, a complete and coherent ethical theory
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The moral hand is a metaphor of five basic ethical principles, one for each finger, summarizing a complete, coherent ethic.
-The thumb: the principle of universalism. You must (may) follow the rul... |
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Bill Bennett
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*mad* Why is Bill Bennett on "Hannity and Colmes" (Fox News Network) talking about ethics? What does he know about ETHICS? Why is he showing his face on television again? Is he out of money?... |
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Ethics & MoralityEthics: DARE YOU IGNORE IT?
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Our need of ethics is a truth. It's postulation and use varies from one culture to another, from one era to another . Incest was banned by the church in the middle ages. it is an artificial law a... |
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Ethics & MoralityEthics: DARE YOU IGNORE IT?
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When I said ethics are only applicable to those who possess them, I meant the punishment of their broken ethics. Obviously, they are the only people who can expect to behave by those rules, and someon... |
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BiologyWhat About Eugenics?
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Eugenics involves using principles of genetics through selective breeding in the hope to "improve" humankind. However these principles clearly lack understanding of the mechanism of evolutio... |
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Ethics & MoralityEthics
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Okay, I'm going to take a different approach with ethics, largely because it is now considered a sort of dead duck. While post-modernists like Jameson, Lyotard and Derrida revel in morality's new-foun... |
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Bill Bennett. a man without ETHICS!
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Bill Bennett is a gambling fool! That's OK. However, Fox News is still going to ram him down our throats with his "ethics" message.
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How can we achieve Redemption?
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I think you're associating beliefs with religion. That's not what I meant. I'll use the word principles instead. You can use it as a measuring stick. HaiderKhan, why do you think you ne... |
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Ethics & MoralityEthics: DARE YOU IGNORE IT?
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Freedom of speech made some people treat their mouth like a sewer pipe will it be unethical if i disrespect that freedom?
we would refer to religion if the power was still with the church. Is it stil... |
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Ethics & MoralityEthics: DARE YOU IGNORE IT?
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Ethics should be sung, not said. Ethics is the frail raft which the virtuous man trusts through churning seas. It pulls us down, it stops us from angling for the stars, even as it puts solid ground be... |
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Ethics & MoralityEthics: DARE YOU IGNORE IT?
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Obviously laws are not fail safe. Thats why they were described as supposedly fail safe. Ethics apply to no one but to the person who possess that particular set of ethics. Obviously the group doesn... |
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For a Million $, Would You...
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do actions really correspond to ur principles? Most of the time ur principles play a great part in ur actions... But can we live with statistics well? True true. There are many questions that can aris... |
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Ethics & MoralityEthics: DARE YOU IGNORE IT?
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The ethical law has its foundations built on emotion, treat others how you want others to treat you and that law differs from person to person. Even the individuals ethics is constantly changing throu... |
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SocietyBastardized American TV News
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their is this thing in news stories called a slant. we see this all the time. they only show the parts that they want you to see. the homeless people in india, not the ones with all the first worldly... |
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Gender PsychologyFemale Superiority?
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Philip, spirituality and materialism are not opposites. They are joined. Otherwise humans being material also wouldn't have the potential to love each other.
Ethics is a purely human thing.... |
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Ethics & MoralityEthics: DARE YOU IGNORE IT?
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I've been thinking about how to put ethics on a firm footing and it certainly is difficult. After much teeth-gnashing and vacillation, I have come to the not-very-radical conclusion that the good... |
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GovernmentPoltical Philosophy
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you are absolutely right, i always thought that philosophers should be in control of thinking a way through the social, but i think politics has always been about economical, territorial power strateg... |
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For a Million $, Would You...
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I believe you musnĀ“t kill individuals who will be missed by others, since you are harming more people than you really wanted. If te person will not be missed than you can kill her, after knowing she... |
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