...Positive moral values are important because they allow you to have an overall feeling of peace and joy. Moral values can give meaning and purpose to your life. You are able to direct your behavior towards beneficial and fulfilling activities. When you live your life according to moral values that are based on honesty, compassion, courage, modesty, and forgiveness, then you can also form positive bonds with other people. Incorporating the moral value of honesty in your life make you trustworthy. You will have a clear conscience because you can respect yourself. The people that you come into contact with will be able to count on you to be fair and sincere. Your integrity will allow you to advance in both your personal and professional life. There are more opportunities for you to fully experience life when you are an honest person. In addition to honesty, you also need to incorporate the moral value of compassion into your life. Compassion allows you to have sympathy for the misfortunes of other people. It also motivates you to want to give them any type of assistance that you can. Compassion results in your having feelings of mercy towards other people. When you have compassion as a moral value people are more likely to put their trust in you because you will be non-judgmental of their circumstances. Thirdly, the moral value of courage gives you the determination to face anything that impedes your progress through life. You will also be able to overcome any obstacles because...
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...that there are objective values (i.e. moral facts). Moral realism is the theory that moral statements have a truth value and there are moral facts to determine said truth values. Moral realists believe moral facts can exist independent of our knowledge of them, therefore moral facts need no proof to exist and we do not necessarily know any moral facts to determine a statements truth value. This theory belongs to cognitivism which is a collection of theories that claim that moral statements have a truth value; however moral realism differs from other cognitivist theories like error theory. Error theory states that while moral statement have a truth value there are no moral facts so all positive moral statements are false. Although both theories state that moral statements have a truth value they disagree on whether or not moral facts exist to determine the truth value of a statement. The implications of moral realism are that moral statements like “abortion is wrong” can be objectively true and they are not just simple matters of opinion. This means that people can hold false views on morality just as people who believe the earth is flat hold a false view; therefore this implies that moral knowledge and moral ignorance are possibilities. Some people, like Martin Luther King, seem morally knowledgeable which fits in with the idea of moral realism as they believe in moral facts and facts must be able to be learnt. However, we cannot know what the moral facts are to be learnt so...
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...MORALS, VALUES, AND BELIEFS ON PEER PRESSURE HAVE YOU EVER BEEN PRESSURED BY YOUR PEERS INTO DOING SOMETHING YOU DID NOT WANT TO DO? PEER PRESSURE OCCURS WHEN A GROUP OF TEENS INFLUENCE OR MANIPULATE EACH OTHER INTO BEHAVING IN A MANNER SIMILAR OR ACCEPTABLE TO THEM. YES, PEER PRESSURE MAY SOMETIMES BE GOOD IN THAT IT CAN INFLUENCE A TEEN IN HOPES OF GIVING HIM OR HER A PUSH IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. BUT WHAT DO YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT PEER PRESSURE; SOMETHING POSITIVE OR SOMETHING NEGATIVE? ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH, AS CHILDREN DEVELOP, THEIR NEED TO “FIT IN” BECOMES VERY IMPORTANT. THEY WILL ALSO BEGIN TO QUESTION THEIR OWN MORALS AND VALUES WHEN LOOKING TO OTHER PEERS FOR CLUES ON HOW TO CONFORM AND DO WHAT EVERYBODY ELSE IS DOING. THAT IS WHY IT IS CRUCIAL TO TEACH ADAPTING TEENS THE IMPORTANCE OF MORALS AND VALUES, AND HOW IT IS LINKED WITH PEER PRESSURE. MANY TEENS ARE CONFUSED BY WHETHER THEY SHOULD BETRAY THEIR BELIEFS AND GIVE INTO PEER PRESSURE OR FOLLOW THEIR MORALS AND VALUES WHICH CAN CERTAINLY HAVE A NEGATIVE IMPACT ON THEIR LIVES. IT IS OUR JOB AS THE PEERS NOT TO FORCE OTHERS INTO DOING SOMETHING THEY DO NOT WANT TO DO. WE HAVE TO STAND UP AND TELL OTHERS, WHO MAY NOT BE SO CONFIDENT IN REFUSING TO GIVE INTO PEER PRESSURE, THAT THEY CAN BE HAPPY. THEY CAN FIT IN. THEY DON’T HAVE TO GIVE INTO PEER PRESSURE. AND THEY CAN DO THAT BY STICKING TO THEIR MORALS AND VALUES. FIRST AND FOREMOST, PEER PRESSURE IS NOT ALWAYS BAD. FOR EXAMPLE...
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...Children and Moral Values Why children today do not have the same moral values as older people? The reason this question is being asked. Because there should be concerns about all this access to information that children have today; is it too much for them? Is there more we should do as the older generations to show our kids better moral values and how to interpret all this information that they’re receiving? With the advent of the Internet and all its resources our children can find out things so much easier than before Google has become an easy do search engine it is making our children lazy at the same time informing them of things that they should not know. Facebook is another one of these things that is misguiding our children. They socialize with adults’, teenagers, and strangers. They're reading the problems that all these people are going through and foresee some of the same thing happening to them. That's why I have asked these questions. How important are moral roles for our children to follow? Good role models are hard to come by these days. Yes there are a lot of people out there that like to guide our children but not all these people are good people; so choose wisely who your children hang out with. This was said in the study I found by Carson. “Children have an innate desire to please their parents and behave well, according to Linda C. Mayes, M.D., and Donald J. Cohen, M.D, authors of "The Yale Child Study Center: Guide to Understanding Your Child." However...
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...Ethics, Morals, Values and Beliefs Personal Ethics and Life David J. Graves Business Ethics Ottawa University Professor Donald Dunn July 7, 2013 This paper explains and defines my personal ethics, morals, values and beliefs, which will continue to grow as my maturity grows. My personal ethics in life stems from my family, my parents and from the continuous mistakes and accomplishments that I have made in my life. A famous philosopher, Frederick Nietzsche once said, “That which does not kill me makes me stronger.” I try to live my life by this principal, as difficult as it may be. This paper does not pretend to provide definitions for complex terms such as morality or ethics; it is merely a means to orient the reader in understanding my personal ethics in life. One of the most important characteristics of moral judgments is that they express our values. Not all expressions of values are also moral judgments, but all moral judgments do express something about what we value. Expressing one’s personal grasps of ethics and life may not always be understood in the context of the world at large, the environment or amongst the others in the household. This is usually due to the every person has some difference, small or great, in the development of their belief systems. Belief systems are established early in life through the environment of home, church, school or other social gatherings which help mold or shape their belief. Most of these beliefs and patterns of behavior are established...
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...Assessing Moral Values Akeysha Patterson Independence University Everyone has the right to do what they want, as long as they do not harm other people. Is this true or not? In my opinion, this could be true as long as they aren’t breaking any laws. For instance, people have the right to get drunk out of their minds as long as they don’t get behind the wheel of a vehicle or become violent. Some individuals believe this statement and others don’t which is a prime example of moral relativism. “Moral relativism says that (1) there are no objective normative facts, and (2) what is right or wrong is relative to particular societies or persons, or moral framework or perspectives” (Lau & Chan, 2004 -2016). If a woman that was raped becomes pregnant by her attacker she has the right to decide to terminate the pregnancy or keep the child. Some people believe abortion is not permissible under any circumstances. Ex: rape or becoming pregnant out of wedlock. “But this not relativism, for it is supposed to be an objective fact that abortion is permissible in cases as rape” (Lau & Chan, 2004-2016). Moral contextualism “is the view that they very same action can be right in one situation (context), but...
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...The Values of Moral Enlightenment My interpretation of Phaedra, established that the play played on various frenzied feelings in a variety of differing morals called love. A romantic love, between Hippolytus and Aricia. Then there is a love that by law, then and now, one of distortion, and unnatural, and tainted and incestuous love, what Phaedra had for Hippolytus, her stepson,. There then is the love that exists between family members, as it is with Hippolytus and his father, Theseus. There then is a different love that is so fierce, and so protective, I like to call, a replacement of a mother, a shielding love, as the one that Oenone, the aging nurse servant, had for Phaedra. Hippolytus confesses that he is in love with princesses Aricia, of Athens. However, King Theseus has, “decreed that she not keep alive her brothers’ seeds; Fearing some new shoots from their guilty stem…doomed her to be single all her days.” (The Norton, Pg 164) For King Theseus, believes that there is bad blood that runs through the family of Aricia. If Aricia married Hippolytus, or any other man, and had offspring then there will be a chance that bad blood would be passed on to future generations. Therefore, Hippolytus, or any man, cannot and would not go against king’s commands. I believe that true love could surmount all. Like Hippolytus and Aricia’s love for each other, their love brings modesty, truthfulness, and self-denying to each other. Even though the Hippolytus and Aricia will never...
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...Guten Tag, Damen und Herren. Ich danke Ihnen für die Möglichkeit, meine kurze Rede zu halten. Und da wir heute über verschiedene Aspekte des Lebens der Jugendlichen sprechen, möchte ich die Ergebnisse der Forschungen Ihnen vorlegen. Sie zeigen, wie man heute die junge Leute in Deutschland beschreiben kann. Jede Gesellschaft hat die Jugend, die sie verdient, sagt der Volksmund. Die Gesellschaft, in der wir heute leben, hat eine Jugend, die nicht durch revolutionäre Ideen auffällt und die Großteils auch nicht gegen das so genannte System rebelliert. Die Jugendlichen scheinen sich irgendwie damit abgefunden zu haben, dass alles so laufen muss, wie es eben läuft. Die heutige Jugend ist für viele irritierend brav und angepasst. Sie denkt pragmatisch und findet nichts dabei, sich auf sich selbst und den eigenen Vorteil zu konzentrieren. Sie blickt ohne große Illusionen in die Zukunft. In ihren prioritären Lebenszielen spiegeln sich menschliche Grundbedürfnisse, nicht Weltbesserungsgeist: ein Bedürfnis nach Zugehörigkeit, ein Bedürfnis nach Anerkennung, ein Bedürfnis nach Selbstverwirklichung und vor allem auch ein tiefes Bedürfnis nach Sicherheit. Die Daten der Forschern sprechen diesbezüglich eine klare Sprache und liefern den Medien immer wieder Stoff für Storys über visionslose Ego-Taktiker, konsumfixierte Jugendkulturjugendliche oder auch „neue Konservative“, die, anstatt die Welt zu ändern, Benimmbücher lesen und in Tanzschulen gehen, um die guten alten Standardtänze zu erlernen...
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...The Difference between ethics, morals and values Dictionary Meaning (Ethics) 1. a. A set of principles of right conduct. b. A theory or a system of moral values noun. the study of standards of conduct and moral judgment; moral philosophy; a treatise on this study; the system or code of morals of a particular person, religion, group, profession Dictionary Meaning (Morals) 1. involving right and wrong: relating to issues of right and wrong and to how individual people should behave 2. derived from personal conscience: based on what somebody's conscience suggests is right or wrong, rather than on what rules or the law says should be done 3. according to common standard of justice: regarded in terms of what is known to be right or just, as opposed to what is officially or outwardly declared to be right or just Dictionary Meaning (Values) In general, important and enduring beliefs or ideals shared by the members of a culture about what is good or desirable and what is not. Values exert major influence on the behavior of an individual and serve as broad guidelines in all situations. When one look at the dictionary meanings of each of the words, you can derive that each words has some similarity rather that difference. These three words go hand in hand in determining how an individual should conduct himself or herself in a modern society. Definitions by an independent group Ethics: [pic]Define moral rights and wrongs. [pic]Transcend culture, ethnicity...
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...Title: What Happened to our Moral Values? Author: Judelle Sterling Source: Helium.com, the Values and Morals in American Society: 1950s versus today Article by: Jennifer Buckett Created: September 23, 2007 I remember growing up as a kid. My mother would teach us on a daily basis how to always keep and practice good moral values. Not only did she teach it to us, she did it with examples. We watch mother saying “hello” and “good morning” with a smile to everyone; young, old, friends and strangers alike. We grew up learning how to respect everyone, how to conduct ourselves in a proper and respectful way to show respect and earn respect. That was the good old days when things were simple and happiness was all we had time for. Where love for the fellow man was so thick that you could feel it just by looking at each other as we walk by, yes that was the past. Now in the present time all I see is people being rude to each other. Moral values mean nothing these days. People are too busy to greet one another. All you see on the news is how a group of teenager beating up a 70 year old man in the name of fun or gang initiation. Things are getting out of hand, and it will get worse if we stand by and do nothing. Compared to the old days society today has plunged to a new low in moral values. Let’s go back as far the 1950s where our moral values were at its best. I wasn’t around in the 1950s but I’ve watch television shows...
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...Others Travis Heasley Ethics and Moral Reasoning: PHI 208 Craig Thompson 12/9/2013 Helping Others There are many places in the world that are not as fortunate as we are in this country and face issues that we cannot even comprehend as American citizens. “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” by Peter Singer is an article that talks about one of these issues that was affecting the East Bengal region of India in the early 1970’s. Singer was writing about how countries that have money can give relief money without affecting any projects that are of moral importance. Singer makes the point that “it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it (Sing, 1972).” Which means as I said above that if we have a road project, that if not built, would not affect any moral issue in the country. Singer says if something is morally right then as a human-being we should do what is morally right and not worry about something that is not morally important. Singer is very passionate in this article and wants help for his cause. His goal is to have countries to give relief funds to refugees of East Bengal region in India. He says in the article that “Britain has given £ 14,750,000 to the relief effort but in comparison to the £ 440,000,000 they have used to fund the Anglo-French Concorde Project, which is for supersonic transport, means they value transportation over lives of refugees...
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...If Anthony chose the individualism approach he would likely do what he thought was in his personal best interests. Anthony’s internal morals and values would determine his decision in this approach. I cannot say what the result would be as the article did not give a clear indication of Anthony’s personal morals or values. When Determining what his obligation are to his subordinate, Kevin Pfeiffer, what decision would Antonio Melendez most likely reach if he employed the individualism approach? Q2: Put yourself in Antonio’s position and decide realistically what you would do. Is your response at a preconventional, conventional, or postconventional level of moral development? How do you feel about your response? A: I would NOT likely choose a preconventional response. I would also NOT likely choose the conventional response. I am VERY postconventional in my actions and reactions in almost every situation. I have definitely suffered some consequences for it, however they have obviously not been significant enough to change my ways. Q3: If Antonio or Kevin were fired because they reported Empress’s fraud, would they be justified in removing all traces of their employment at the cruise line from their resumes so they don’t have to explain to a prospective employer why they were fired? Why or why not? A: No, there is always a way to paint the picture in a beneficial light whether you chose the ethical or immoral response. Ultimately...
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...We all know when we have a good supervisor, but it can be quite difficult to actually state what makes a good supervisor good. Does it have to do with their personality, their insight, intelligence, or their personal beliefs, morals and values? Is it a mix of all these things, and do certain characteristics apply more than others? The first thing we should appreciate is that there are a huge amount of traits that need to be considered. Over the duration of the paper I will be focusing on a few select traits which I believe to be the most important in regards to being a good supervisor. Firstly, a good supervisor must be a good coach. For a supervisor to be successful, it is imperative that they have the qualities that we attribute to any normal coach. This is because a coach knows how important it is to coach their team, or in this case, employees. Successful coaching means working together with your employees to create and modify action plans and objectives. Supervisors must know how to delegate tasks between individuals, and give all the support and guidance that may be needed. On the topic of individuals, a good supervisor must understand that everybody is different, and to be mindful of this fact when dealing with his or her team members. Secondly, a good supervisor must have a positive outlook and be a positive thinker. He or she will think how problems can be solved, while maintaining an air of friendliness, so that they remain approachable, and their employees aren’t...
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...Principles of Morale • Entomology The origin of the word morale comes from the French word "moral" which refers to good conduct. French has two different version of the word--"le moral," which relates to temperament, and "la morale," which refers to morality. The word was first used in 1831 in reference to "confidence" in military matters. • Definition of Morale Morale or esprit de corps is an intangible that refers to the ability of a group of people to maintain confidence in an institution, goal or practice. If a specific group---which can be as large as a nation or the employees of a company, to as small as a neighborhood or family---has faith it is moving in the right direction, then morale is said to be high or good. If the group begins to losing faith, that is when morale becomes low or bad. Morale is not related to "morality" or knowing the difference between right and wrong. Morale is the spirit of active devotion to the persons working together for a common purpose. It is also called (Esprit de corps). It refers to sense of belonging. This fosters the team spirit, i.e. the spirit of working together to achieve objectives effectively. It is the capacity of a group's members to maintain belief in an institution or goal, particularly in the face of opposition or hardship. Morale is often referenced by authority figures as a generic value judgment of the willpower, obedience, and self-discipline of a group tasked with performing duties assigned by...
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...Angela Simmons Thinking and Doing Ethics PHI-210RS-CL05 Instructor: Justin Wisniewski September 26, 2015 Written Case Analysis 4 In the particular case presented, Case 4 the parties “involved are a Superior Court judge, a father, his 5-year-old son, and the mother of the child.” (Ruggiero 171) The moral issue is second-hand being a danger to the child in question; and the fact that the judge has ordered the mother to stop smoking around her child. People know the dangers of second-hand smoke and how harmful it can be your child’s health, or anyone’s health for that matter. When “the judge ordered the woman to stop smoking around her child, his judgement corresponds with the natural value that we have a moral obligation to care for ourselves and others. Also, we are prohibited from acting in ways that could harm innocent persons.” (Burnor 182) Based on the judge’s decision, “negative rights,” he made a claim against the mother that she should not be smoking around her child.” (Burnor 196) So he is deterring the child from second-hand smoke and making sure he is protected. Now the mother must practice “positive rights” (Burnor 195) to ensure that she does what is morally right to make sure the health and well-being of he son are of utmost importance. Also, the father can be more at ease knowing his son is free from second-hand smoke. Because of the judgement against the woman, she can accuse the judge and possibly her child’s father of violating her “human rights.” (Burnor...
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