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In Julie Beck’s informative article, “This Article Won 't Change Your Mind,” she explores and challenges the phenomenon that belief and choices are often influenced by a person’s moral characteristics and their environment. Beck first uses a short anecdote explaining how people often chooses to only believe the things that they want to believe. If a subject matter is too uncomfortable to discuss, people often become dismissive and choose not to acknowledge the unbearable truth. Beck then continues to pursue her argument by applying reliable studies in order to strengthen the ethicality of her beliefs. She uses sources such as T Leon Festinger’s study and Stanley Schachter’s book, When Prophecy Fails, in order to imbed undeniable facts into
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it (author anonymous).” Virtue is defined by Webster Online Dictionary as a conformity to a standard of right, a particular moral excellence. As Christians, we are instructed to stand apart from this dark and ominous world, to be a light in the darkness. Romans 12:2 says, “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.” The question then becomes, is averting evil enough to generate a virtuous person or must it be an active choice?
Have any of you ever needed to make a choice between something that seems favorable, but could be harmful or something that you know was right? In Out of the Silent Planet, Dr. Ransom travels past a house in the countryside, where he discovers a woman crying for her son, who is long overdue to come home. Ransom then offers to find the woman's son and return the boy at once. Upon doing so he stumbles into an old colleague who plans to take the boy without the consent of his mother. At this time Ransom tells his colleague, Devine, to let the boy go.
Name: Lakisha Minnis Instructor: Mr. Compton English 2202-001 Date: April. 24, 2017 Sweat Zora Neale Hurston is a prolific writer famed for numerous award winning plays, novels and short stories. In this paper, I will be elaborating on a character from the novel Sweat. Her novel Sweat was first published in 1926. Sweat is a novel that tells a story about the good, evil, and domestic abusive husband.
Having seen boys jump off the cliff his whole life, Daniel Atkinson now stood in the same place, on the same cliff, expected to do the same exact thing. Every year, on the third of June, a celebration was held in a place called cook’s brook, in the town of rosewood by the people of the town. The celebration consisted of all the town’s people coming together to eat, dance, and have fun. But that wasn’t it. The main part of the celebration was when the boys in the town would dive off a cliff in cook’s brook to fulfill a town tradition symbolizing courage, bravery, and strength.
It is important before breaking down Hursthouses argument, to examine the basis in which she grounds her claims. We can see through her investigation her examination of whether having an abortion is something a virtuous person would do. A virtuous person therefore, is someone who exercises virtue with virtue being defined by Hursthouse as “a character trait a human
We may not have complete control over our lives, but let us not fail to pay attention to our intuitions and our experiences of it. Many aspects go into deciding whether one is morally good or bad and ultimately can be traced back to
Harry Frankfurt’s paper titled Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility makes an argument in opposition to the Principle of Alternative Possibilities. His viewpoints alter the perception of philosophical concepts like determinism and free will, and under what circumstances a person is morally responsible for their actions depending on the assumption they had options to make another choice. The principle that Frankfurt disputes is that of the Principle of Alternative Possibilities, in which it is asserted that a person can only be held morally responsible for their actions if they could have chosen to do otherwise. Common issues with the principle reside in its potential to expunge individuals of moral responsibility in instances where
In every day life, we face many situations that require a moral decision. We have to decide what is right and what is wrong? Not always is this an easy task thus, it seems important to analyze how we make our moral decisions. I will start with an analysis of how we make decisions in general
It is not surprising, that Hurston’s still burgeoning knowledge of Voodoo is a major influence in the novel, particularly on her conception of human relationships with nature. Hurston employs this Voodoo-influenced view of nature in the novel in order to challenge and revise the traditionally limited and static gender and racial roles of the early twentieth-century south. Nature/woman is subordinated to culture/man in the traditional pastoral equation, and this opposition installs males as the protectors of both the improved garden and the women of the plantation. Hurston’s Voodoo-influenced conception of nature contributes to her revision of the male-dominated pastoral tradition in Southern literature by identifying her female protagonist
Caleb Stephens April 15, 2017 Introduction to Philosophy The goal of this paper is to demonstrate that Philippa Foot’s objection, raised to her own argument against utilitarianism, is correct. Her initial thesis is that benevolence, while the foundation of utilitarianism, is an internal end of morality, rather than the ultimate end of morality. The possible objection to this that there must be some overarching reason behind morality, which must imply a form of consequentialism. The response she offers is that there should be some other form of morality, which is a weak argument, as it does not provide an alternate conception of morality itself.
This is so because it becomes difficult to know whether moral goodness is independent of the will of God or if it is as a result of His will. The Euthyphro dilemma offers two intensely differing sides. On one side of the argument, theorists are of the opinion that morality is whatever God wills. This position then brings into question the goodness of God’s will if His command vindicates what is wrong. Arguing that goodness is the determined by God shows that what is rights is so because God wills it to be right.
Utilitarianism is the moral theory that the action that people should take it the one that provides the greatest utility. In this paper I intend to argue that utilitarianism is generally untenable because act and rule utilitarianism both have objections that prove they cannot fully provide the sure answer on how to make moral decisions and what will be the ultimate outcome. I intend to do this by defining the argument for act and rule utilitarianism, giving an example, presenting the objections to act and rule utilitarianism and proving that utilitarianism is untenable. Both act and rule utilitarianism attempt to argue that what is right or wrong can be proven by what morally increases the well being of people. Act utilitarianism argues that
A person knows most of all what pleases and distresses them. Of course, they also experience these things on the personal level; only an individual directly feels what happens to them. However, it cannot be said that all humans are in concord with themselves in this respect. Non-virtuous or “base” people may “appear to have these features,” but they “are at odds with themselves, and have an appetite for one thing and a wish for another” (1166b). They may give into their harmful desires and choose to do actions that cause them harm.
One example that Ross gives is the keeping of a promise an individual made to someone not because it will promote the most happiness at the end, but because the individual had already made the promise and feels an innate duty to uphold it (128). Ross argues that people possess common sense because it is what lets an individual realize that they have more than one “conditional” duty in a situation. It allows that individual to favor the action of one duty more over the action of the
