...Let the Truth be Told Teneka Oliver PHI 200 Professor Worley November 15, 2012 The concept of holiness emerges in the dialogue when Socrates revealed to Euthyphro that he is being charged with corrupting the minds of the youth by defying the gods of their time and creating new gods. Euthyphro then reveals to Socrates that he is a master theologian of the things of gods, and he is prosecuting his father for murder. This sparked curiosity in Socrates as he sees Euthyphro as a rare person prosecuting his father in the name of religion. He then questions what piety is and what is impiety? This question takes a prominent position in the conversation between Socrates and Euthyphro because Socrates always had questions about religion. Secondly, Socrates was being prosecuted for creating his own from of religion which he now questions the validity of piety and impiety. Lastly, Socrates questions Euthyphro’s thought process of him prosecuting his own father in the name of religion which led up to the prominent position between Socrates and Euthyphro. Euthyphro uses three main definitions on what are piety and impiety, and each time Socrates challenges Euthyphro’s thought process on each definition. The first definition that Euthyphro uses is based on the fact that he is prosecuting his father. Euthyphro’s argument was that everyone that does wrong should be punished no matter who does it. Euthyphro justifies...
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...Kant argues that "the truth should always be told, for its own sake." In saying this, he means that the truth should always be told; for nothing but the truth, and that it only, can lead to it. Therefore, falsehoods cannot lead to truth according to his argumentation. I challenge his claim by proposing the following hypothetical scenario: There are two men; man X and man Y. Premise 1.) X promises to tell Y something. Premise 2.) X lies by promising to tell a lie to Y. Conclusion: Therefore, X tells Y the truth. The kantents (ha) of the above syllogistical representation, states the following: If X lies by promising to tell a lie to Y, then he will not lie, because if he were to tell a truthful promise, then he would of course tell the truth...
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...trust the narrator of a story to tell the truth. The reader can listen, but must never cease to analyze in order to decipher the truth in each story. In Tim O’Brien’s short story, his narrator is naturally accepted and assumed to be the author of the story. Through this narrator, a story of personal Vietnam War experiences unfolds. Because this appears to be true stories told by O’Brien, the reader is left to assume all the tales are true encounters when in fact, O’Brien mixes truth and fiction in order to make the story believable. It is important to remember that the soldier telling the war story can only relay the facts that he remembers from the event. He may be sincere in telling the events as he remembers, but not accurate in reporting the entirety of the historical picture.. The setting is the Vietnam War; a war filled with controversy, and soldiers and civilians struggling to make sense of it all. In the story, O’Brien creates a believable setting with believable characters. He describes a setting that one would expect to find in Vietnam: rugged terrain, foxholes, jungles and muddy rivers. He also uses the giant canopy of a tree (as one would expect in this area) to tell the details of the death of his friends, Lemon and Rat. Describing the smell of the moss, the white blossoms and the lack of sunlight allowed by the tree, O’Brien creates a soothing feeling to a very tragic ending. Through this setting, readers are told of the cold, violent acts of war, but...
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...humans are programmed to tell the truth, everyone has told a lie to stay out of trouble. Lies are justified by the inner conscience or small group before released publicly. People turn to small groups to gain assurance that the lie may sound believable. Growing up there are different levels of not telling the truth. Adolescents believe lies will make God upset. Although lies are deemed to be unclean, truth also has many faces as well. Truth can also make a person feel superior which makes an individual intimidated. Deceit will always prevail in some type of shape, form, or fashion. When two people are communicating and one of the persons are telling the untruth, the conversation continues because neither party wants to speak on what they actually know is the truth. All lies are not bad lies depending on the circumstance. Sometimes people face dilemmas which a lie is told to save a person’s life. What choice do an individual have when the truth will maybe destroy a family’s life when faced with certain evils of the world. All truth is not good truth, while all lies are not bad lies. Lies have circumstances with hidden agendas, whether good or bad. In the story Hidden Places, one of the siblings believed lying was unmoral and never permissible before God. When the soldiers were looking for their sons, the parent refused to tell a lie. Although she told the truth, her remark was overlooked by the solders because they believed her words were foolish. Truth must be discovered and looked...
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...The Crucible is about a town with people who do court judgement based on what god would do. Religion is very important to most of the town. Throughout this play there are some characters who realize the truth on what is going on in Salem an change there point of view in this situation. For example Mary Warren she changed. Also brought shocking news in the court house and she was good for lying. I will get into her weakness and courage and where she told truth. Mary Warren's weakness was Abigail. She put fear into Mary's eye without even looking at her. She knew Abigail's plan and Mary was scared of so she played along about the witchcraft. Together with other girls they caused a serious problem in Salem. These girls don't realize that doing...
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...What if you are against lying but, under some circumstances, it might be the only thing left to do. Lying is not always the best thing to do because it will affect others depending on how often a lie is told. After a lie, the feeling of telling a lie is so terrible that it might have gotten the other people into trouble for something that did not even occur. In the article, “The Ways We Lie” by Stephanie Ericsson, she talks to us about the different types of lies there are. She explains how lying comes out in a person’s everyday life even when is inevitable. However, “In the Pale Moonlight” from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine shows how one of the main characters, Captain Sisko, felt guilty because of the lies he had made. The lie he makes, cost...
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...St. Bernadette was known for her obedience, truthfulness, and humility. Bernadette was born in Lourdes, France in 1844. She was born into a life of poverty, but her family was loving and devoted to God. St. Bernadette was “intellectually ignorant” of concepts such as the Immaculate Conception at age 14. On February 11th, 1858, St. Bernadette had a vision of the ‘beautiful lady’ for the first time. “The Lady was dressed in white, wearing a white dress, a blue girdle and a yellow rose on each foot, the same color as the chain of her rosary (“Biography of St. Bernadette Soubirous”). St. Bernadette promised the lady that she would return and Bernadette kept her promise. Many people would accompany St. Bernadette to the grotto, but only Bernadette...
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...When knowledge is told to be true it is justified believed and proven, and when it is not it is false. Truth needs to be analytic and synthetic. An absolute claim can only be suggested when the being of it is proven for eternity. There are some distinction of false and truth but it is not absolute. Since to an extent, we distinct things unknowingly into two category, true and false. This distinction it helps us to decide. We distinct it by what we believe, perceived and justified. When we were a child we were told about what is true and what is false, and as we grow we choose it by our own opinion. What if what we’re told since we’re young is false and vice versa? There are some foundations to why we consider things as true and false and how we make our own distinction to understand things. Such as by learning things from other people and being influenced. Religious believe and our own personality or values to life. Sometimes we consider truth to what we want it to be true, as what is comfortable for us to think. Most of our truth and false settles down from a community, our knowledge and believe is tied to what our community is tied to. We believe because it is proven or because we were told and believe it. In the past people believe the world is flat and that there is a cliff at the end of the world. However, since we’ve been outer space we believe it is oval. The truth we once believe turned false. Absolute truth may exist and we might know it. However, since we aren’t...
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...Media and Its Responsibilities Samantha Shuman Soc120: Introduction to Ethics and Social Responsibility David Strand June 7, 2015 Media and Its Responsibilities Growing up we are told that lying is bad and that telling the truth no matter the consequence is always the right thing to do. As we grow up we learn the difference between a bold faced lie, which always causes more damage than telling the truth, and a little white lie, which usually causes little to no harm. For example lying about stealing money from your dads’ wallet and blaming it on someone else is a bold faced lie and the other person usually faces consequences that they don’t deserve. Telling your three year daughter she looks beautiful when she has mismatched clothes and blue eyeshadow all over her face is a little white lie that is harmful to both parties involved. This is how the media portrays itself to the public whether it is on the internet, newspaper/magazine cover or on television. The whole truth is always told regardless of the outcome; the deontological approach, or half of the truth is told to benefit the greater amount of the public; the utilitarianism approach, just because the media feels that they don’t need to know the harsh reality of what is really going on. The reasoning behind the approach being used would be emotivism, which is basing ones moral decisions on ones feelings or emotions, so basically how that person feels about the given situation. The media is how people normally...
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...Argumentative Essay Should we always tell the truth? Do you always tell the truth or lies? You are not likely to reply immediately because this question is very extreme. While we live, we cannot always tell the truth, and we also cannot always tell lies. May be, it will depend on the situation that you encountered. There are innumerable reasons why most people tell lies to others. Usually, we tell lies to hide own fault or show off ourselves. There are a little bit different lies, of course, these are white lies. White lies are also lies, but these can be understood by people because it does not have ill will. Except white lies, we should try to tell the truth. It is difficult, but it is important for us to be truthful with other people because by being honest, we can keep the relationship between people with faith, we show what is morally right, and we do not become a liar. Firstly, we can keep the relationship between people with faith by telling the truth. It means that there is trust between people to keep the relationship each other. Because of telling lies, however, they can loss mutual trust, so they cannot believe each other anymore. For example, when I was 14 years old, I made a friend who was very funny and active in middle school. We were best friend each other at that time. My thought and her thought were same, but the more I knew her deeply, the more I was disappointed. She usually told lies to me every day, so I was losing some trust about her gradually...
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...Lies My Teacher Told Me is a courageous piece of nonfiction written by James W. Loewen, sociologist and author. Loewen grew up in Decatur, Illinois to a librarian and teacher for a mother, and a medical director for a father. Starting off as a National Merit Scholar from MacArthur igh School, he went on to obtain a doctorate degree in sociology at Harvard University. Loewen has taught at a historically black college in Mississippi and also at the University of Vermont where he taught about race relations for 20 years. Before writing, Lies My Teacher Told Me, Loewen co-wrote Mississippi: Conflict and Change, a United States history textbook. He fought for its right for use in public schools, and won with a radical victory. James Loewen, only then went on to write Lies My Teacher Told Me, with the intention of letting...
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...There was a number of times where people had told him and Short to prepare and they had expected nothing to happen. They believed they were not the first priority for the Japanese. They were very bad leaders because they were unprepared for this attack. Kimmel thought he was doing the right thing but he wasn't listening to anyone nor did he look at the facts. This causes him to violate a leadership trait. “When making a decision, understand the facts, consider various solutions and their consequences, make sure that the decision is consistent with your objectives, and effectively communicate your judgment.” He still does not show this leadership trait because he had been provided with facts, and he understood the consequence if there was an attack, but he still decided against preparation. He chose not to effectively communicate and thought he and Short would be right. This shows that he was not a good leader because he didn't communicate properly. He also didn't take anyone else's input and didn't care what they told him. He thought he knew right even though a countless number of people told him he was wrong and he brought shame to himself and our country. Him thinking he was right caused one of the biggest up roars in our country and we allowed a terrible attack to take place. Kimmel needs to be smarter when...
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...Have you ever told a lie? Has that lie caused even more trouble than if you would have just told the truth? When people lie in a situation, it stirs up the commotion. The story becomes more complicated, and will most likely get someone innocent in trouble. This is what happened in The Crucible when Abagail lied in court about the affair to save herself from trouble. Unlike Abagail’s false statements, John Proctor tells the truth in trial because he would rather say the truth then lie about the situation. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, telling the truth for what is right and what you believe in is always more important than your name and reputation. Abagail Williams is motivated to lie about the affair to save herself. If she told the truth,...
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...Smoke Signals: A Metaphor for Telling It has been countless years since I have watched a movie about Native Americans, and even longer since I have witnessed a decent one. Most films on the subject of the Native American people are often set in the past and are habitually on the subject of brave Indian warriors. I had never viewed a Native American motion picture filmed in a present day setting, dealing with contemporary issues until I watched Smoke Signals. In the movie Smoke Signals, co-producer and scriptwriter Sherman Alexie uses unexpected humor, numerous significant flashbacks, and modernized Native American storytelling traditions to best narrate his story and the historical plight of Native Americans. First of all, Alexie employs wit by mocking stereotypical reservation life, the frequently biased film industry, and even his own people, the Native Americans. From the opening scene as tribal meteorologist and traffic reporter Lester Falls Apart covers his seemingly uneventful daily traffic report, as he has for the last twenty-six years, from the rooftop of his broken down KREZ van, we are introduced to the odd and amusing way of life on the “rez.” In another scene, Victor and Thomas are embarking on their solemn journey and are offered a ride by Thelma and Lucy driving down the road in reverse; again, it is suggested that they exist in a somewhat backwards nation. In addition, Alexie is quick to taunt the movie industry by belittling white cowboy heroes; he even...
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...when she got hungry. Rebecca also told everyone to keep praying for the little girl. Reverend Parris called Reverend Hale for his assistance in the matter about witchcraft in the town of Salem. Abigail Williams saw John Proctor and went over to him. she then claims that Proctor still loves her as they were talking together alone. when Reverend Hale showed up he goes to the accused Tituba and said how she was not telling the truth when she was telling the truth. she then starts to lie to get out of being hung and started to blame Goody Osborne and Goody Good for...
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