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Euthanasia: Morality and the Sanctity of Human Life, 2008.
A critique of Peter Singer's views on euthanasia.
770 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 27.95
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This paper outlines Peter Singer's defense of euthanasia for the severely disabled and, by extension, the very young or very old. The paper argues that Singer's rationale does not stand up to scrutiny insofar as, as a moral philosophy, it constitutes a real danger to any concept of the social contract. The paper posits that if society permits people to be grouped according to some sort of hierarchy that privileges some above others, then it becomes easy for individuals to forget the essential humanity of other members of the community. In the end, the paper maintains that Singer's philosophy is rife with problems.
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"My personal view is that Singer's argument is manifestly weak. For one thing, to allow human beings to be euthanized (killed off might be a better expression) is to create a new kind of moral philosophy that, for all intents and purposes, undermines the humanity of all us. To put it another way, if it is possible for the severely-disabled to be killed without fear of moral condemnation (to say nothing of legal condemnation), what is to stop the large-scale killings of individuals on the basis of skin color, perceived mental acuity (they do not have to be severely disabled but can merely be burdened by below average intelligence) and/or on the basis that the abilities they possess are of little use to the larger community?"
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Euthanasia - Moral Rightness or Wrongness of Robert Latimer's Act, 2000.
This paper tries to answer the question regarding euthanasia cases: Can euthanasia in any form can be morally acceptable in our society?
1,830 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 58.95
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This paper discusses the issue of euthanasia and attempts to define whether euthanasia should be considered morally wrong or right. In order to give an answer to this question and as part of con and pro arguments several cases of voluntary and involuntary euthanasia are discussed in this paper. The case of Robert Latimer occupies a central place in this discussion and ultimately brings into the debate several moral principles-- benefit, sanctity of human life and autonomy.
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"Robert Latimer's trial was described in the press as "Trial by popularity" and as newspapers' headlines stated "despite his second murder conviction, Latimer retains legal and public support" regardless of the fact that he caused death of his 12 year old disabled daughter by carbon monoxide. Support and sympathy for Latimer has poured in from all parts of Canada bringing with it the question of the moral rightness of what Tracy's father did."
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"The Secret Agent": Human Nature vs. Morality, 2002.
This paper is a comparison of human nature vs. morality, as found in Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Agent".
1,060 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 0 sources, $ 37.95
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This paper discusses the role that human nature plays in the actions taken by people in their lives. The paper uses the different characters in Joseph Conrad's book "The Secret Agent," to show varying levels of morality and goodness. The author also argues that individuals actions, affect the lives, and morality of those around them.
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"Verloc is a slightly more complex character. Immediately one can see that he possesses flawed morals because of the shop he ran. For all purposes, it was a primitive sex shop. It may not have been as gaudy as the sex shops of today are, but its clientele was similar; either young men with too much time and money, or older men who had fallen on hard times. When the reader learns that Verloc runs the shop as a means to cover up his real profession as a terrorist, one no longer accepts his poor moral values, but must question whether he has any at all. Verloc?s only redeeming value is that he married Winnie and helps her support her feeble brother."
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Free Will, Morality, and Human Law, 2004.
A look at the idea of morality and human law in Plato's "Crito", Henry David Thoreau?s "Civil Disobedience", and "Letter From a Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper examines how the idea of morality and human law is effectively dealt with in three classic works from different periods and very different circumstances. It looks at how, in "Crito", Plato describes the death of Socrates, who was convicted and imprisoned for corruption and impiety. It also examines how Henry David Thoreau?s "Civil Disobedience" was composed in the America of the 19th century, when Thoreau was imprisoned for not paying a tax he believes is unjustified. In "Letter From a Birmingham Jail", Martin Luther King follows Thoreau?s example of civil disobedience, having been arrested for a technical violation of an anti-parading ordinance.
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"The Crito is Plato?s dramatization of the final hours in the life of Socrates. Socrates (Plato?s instructor) was convicted by an Athenian jury of 500 in 399 BC for charges of corrupting the youth and impiety. While in prison, Socrates is visited by an old friend, Crito, who tells him that they have arranged to break Socrates out of prison. Socrates has been sentenced to death. If he does not go along with Crito, he will be forced to drink the hemlock that will kill him. The Crito is a dialogue between Socrates and Crito, where Socrates explains the dilemma that is facing him. Although he may not believe that he was justly convicted, Socrates believes in the laws that were used to justify this conviction. He is forced with the moral decision of breaking from prison (and thereby disobeying the law) or accepting his fate, and dying."
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Confucius, Human Nature, and Morality, 2005.
A discussion regarding Confucius, the history of his life and his teachings.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 5 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper gives a brief history of Confucius' life. It also describes his teachings regarding both human nature and morality. Much is known about the historical man, Confucius. Unfortunately, the historical information in existence is sometimes blended with stereotypical or slanted information, depending on how the writer wanted Confucius, his writings, or his culture to be perceived.
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"Unlike some figures that feature in other major religions, a great deal is known about Confucius. In addition to his religious teachings and philosophy, much literature exists of a historical nature Confucius' life. As a result, people in the twenty-first century are privileged to have a relatively accurate record of both the man and his teaching. Mark Csikszenmihali is critical of the Western culture's role in this kind of stereotyping."
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Human Morality in "Huck Finn" and "A Connecticut Yankee", 2000.
2,395 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 73.95
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This paper shows through Mark Twain's books "Huck Finn" and "A Connecticut Yankee" that one of Twain's major convictions is that people are innately evil. With examples from both books to illustrate the point, the paper shows how Twain uses his narrators as a channel to convey the message that society and the masses are cruel, and always projects a hero as the isolated person, brave enough to transcend the rules and achieve a higher ideal.
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"In The Damned Human Race, Twain declares that he has been "studying the traits and dispositions of the lower animals (so-called), and contrasting them with traits and dispositions of man" (Devoto 176). The results were "humiliating." His findings can be uncovered throughout the two novels. "Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it" (Devoto 179). These are Twain's own words, and they come to life in Yankee when Hank relays the images of the knights and ladies watching a dogfight and after the tournament, when the screams of the dying losers resonate throughout the stadium (Kepos 385)."
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Morality of Euthanasia, 2000.
The definition, pros and cons, theory, the right to die and the role of health workers.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 3 sources, $ 55.95
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"Advances in medical science have helped extend the quantity and the quality of life. Paradoxically, by extending the lives of terminally ill patients, those advances have created a raging debate about euthanasia. Many argue that just because we can keep certain people alive does not necessarily mean that we should keep them alive. This paper will examine the morality of euthanasia.
Euthanasia is defined as "the action of inducing the painless death of a person for reasons assumed to be merciful" (Morris, 1980, p. 453). That broad definition covers three different situations. Passive euthanasia occurs when a patient's life support equipment is turned off, when food or water is ..."
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Euthanasia and Human Freedom, 2002.
Looks at the "right to die" issue from the stand point of human freedom and the pursuit of happiness.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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The following is a critical analysis of both Callahan's argument concerning the 'pursuit of happiness' and 'well-being', and on the other hand, the topic of euthanasia and as to whether the legalization of this actually, promotes 'self-determination' and the 'pursuit of happiness'. As well this paper will examine Callahan's two means of critique with respect to the legalization of euthanasia, as the manifestation of the pursuit of happiness.
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Krutch's "Human Nature and the Human Condition", 2005.
An overview of Joseph Wood Krutch's "Human Nature and the Human Condition"
3,375 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 119.95
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This paper presents a review of Joseph Wood Krutch's "Human Nature and the Human Condition". The paper discusses the author's main themes, provides a summary of the work, and addresses the strengths and weaknesses of the collection of essays as a whole.
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"Throughout history human beings have attempted to produce theories of knowledge and learning. Some of the most basic questions such theories have attempted to answer concern what knowledge is, where knowledge comes from and how we know what is true. Plato theorized that only things that do not change, that are immutable can be known. Limitations of the human senses and perception have always played into theories on knowing. So too has human capacity for ration and more..."
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Human rights vs. Human Nature, 2006.
A discussion regarding the justification of war and the issue of human rights versus human nature.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 10 sources, $ 71.95
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This paper reviews the question of justifying military intervention on the basis of protection of human rights, pointing out that such a question requires a prior assumption. The paper clarifies this assumption to be that countries are capable of benevolent, disinterested altruism. History refutes this assumption. The paper further discusses how individuals and groups within a country may very well have the best intentions to bring relief to the suffering citizens of a brutal dictatorship or civil war; but countless examples, from Vietnam, to Latin America, to Rwanda, to present day Iraq, show a road to hell paved with such good intentions. The political and military forces involved in such maneuvers, by their very nature, preclude truly altruistic actions.
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Human Rights And Human Trafficking, 2006.
A discussion on human trafficking and the international response to the problem.
5,084 words (approx. 20.3 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 127.95
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The paper discusses how human trafficking has increasingly become a problem for many countries throughout the world, with people being taken from their families, homes and communities and ensnared in a life of servitude to others in a strange and foreign country. The paper focuses on the question of whether there is enough being done to combat the increasing problem of human trafficking. The paper examines the international community's response to the problem. The paper details various countries and communities and how they have been effected by human trafficking.
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Introduction
Overview Of Human Trafficking Throughout The World
Haiti
Honduras
Hong Kong
India
Bulgaria
The Netherlands
Pakistan
Russia
Uganda
Poland - The Press And The Perspective In Media
Mexico - 20,000 Child Victims
Mongolia - 200 Mongolian Children Exploited As Prostitutes
Other Countries
What Is Being Done To Combat This Problem?
Bibliography
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"According to a separate report, "Migrant trafficking and smuggling has become a global business generating huge profits for traffickers and organized crime syndicates." (Counter-Trafficking, 2006) In fact in a study conducted by IOM reports "...an estimated 15 to 30 million irregular migrants worldwide." (Counter-Trafficking, 2006) Sadly a report of the U.S. Department of Justice states that an estimated "...700,000 women and children are trafficked yearly across borders." (Counter-Trafficking, 2006) The reason stated that so many of these migrants go unreported is due to the inherent "...clandestine nature..." involved in so many of the lives and migration of these individuals."
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Aggression in Human & Non-Human Primates, 1999.
Analyzes nature of violence, differences between humans & non-humans, biological, psychological & social causes, evolution, territoriality, survival and theories.
4,950 words (approx. 19.8 pages), 13 sources, $ 135.95
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This paper is an investigation of the topic of aggression in both humans and non-human primates with an attempt to understand the causes of such aggression and what links exist between the aggressive behaviors of different primate species.
The literature on primate aggression is reviewed and a number of bases for aggressive behavior are put forth, including psychoanalytic, biological, evolutionary and learned. The validity of each of these explanatory paradigms is examined and the evolutionary and social learning perspectives are established as being the most useful bases on which to create theoretical models of primate aggressive behavior.
A substantial amount of attention is paid to possible evolutionary causes of aggression and evolutionarily based links between the aggressive tendencies..:
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Moral and Ethical Dilemmas of Human Cloning, 2001.
A discussion whether human cloning is justified considering the moral and ethical issues it raises.
2,720 words (approx. 10.9 pages), 7 sources, $ 81.95
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This paper discusses the controversial issue of cloning. It analyzes the moral and ethical implications of cloning and whether it is correct to conduct cloning at all. The paper describes the origins of cloning, the methods currently used and the problems with the process.
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" Cloning can basically be described as the copying of genes and other pieces of chromosomes to generate identical material. Two other types of cloning produce complete, genetically identical animals. Blastomere separation (sometimes called "twinning" after the naturally occurring process that creates identical twins) involves splitting a developing embryo soon after fertilization of the egg by a sperm (sexual reproduction) to give rise to two or more embryos (Wilmut, 998). The resulting organisms are identical twins (clones) containing DNA from both the mother and the father. The second type of cloning that is more controversial in terms of its moral and ethical implications is when the identical material that has been generated consists of the DNA of only one parent. With the innovation of the second type of cloning that came primarily with the birth of Dolly, a number of moral, social, ethical and legal issues were raised with regard to it. Religious and social organizations were outraged at the prospect of creating animals (not to forget humans) that did not involve the natural process of conception. The right to create a life, they claimed was after all ultimately in the hands of the Creator and to play around with that was tantamount to interrupting the path of Nature (Wilmut, 1998). However before one moves on to discuss the moral and ethical dilemmas of cloning, it is important to briefly study the history of this controversial process."
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Moral Standards and Moral Consistency, 2008.
This paper explores the moral standards in the associations of Eberhard Faber, Incorporated.
1,049 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 36.95
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The paper examines the decision to allow Eberhard Faber to associate with known bribe-givers. The paper is of the opinion that this association seems like an affront to the moral consistency requirement demanded of any credible moral standard. The paper contends that respecting the law in some, but not in all, circumstances makes a mockery of the organization's avowed commitment to legal dictates and therefore is inherently immoral.
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"Before going too far, the stakeholders in this situation need to be listed. Obviously, the share-holders of Eberhard Faber are one significant stake-holder; so too is the Board of Directors and, especially, the key principals (Mr. Faber and Mr. Carey) who offer widely divergent views on how to approach this matter. Not to be forgotten, the other company involved is a stake-holder as it could lose a major deal with an American company - a deal it would seem to covet. Lastly, IRS and legal consultants who convinced Mr. Faber that the deal was above-board and breached no US laws are stake-holders with credibility on the line (for a lengthier discussion on all of these parties, please see "Eberhard Faber, Inc.," n.d.). In the end, many people stand to win - or lose."
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Morality, 2002.
An examination of two different models of human morality as debated in the ancient world: The moral nihilism of Thrasymachus and the moral realism of Plato.
1,240 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper attempts to answer the question of what it means to be moral and shows that defining the limits of human morality is a complex and ambiguous task. It discusses in detail two different models by two different philosophers -Thrasymachus and Plato. After considering the strengths and weaknesses of each model, including the personal consequences of adopting one, the paper concludes by selecting one of the models as being (personally) preferable, even if it is not as true.
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"Socrates ? like modern-day adherents of most of the world?s major religions, including Judaism, Christianity and Islam ? would argue that it is better to be just for its own sake, or at least because the gods or God reward those who are good. (Socrates in fact argues that it is better to be moral even if acting in a right and moral way causes one to gain a bad reputation ? as does sometimes happen ? for it is always better to adhere to the path of truth than to be concerned about popularity or reputation, which are transient.) Another response would be to assert a claim of moral nihilism, which is the proposition that in fact there are no true ethical principles (viz. Morgan 21-23)."
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