doctor is to refuse this request as his or her duty is to the law that criminalizes it and the medical ethics that denies it. As Martha Nussbaum states, FGM is an act of not merely surgery or tradition, but the “deprivation of normative human functioning in its risks to health, impact on sexual functioning, violations of dignity, and conditions of non-autonomy” (Nussbaum, 1999). In understanding the dilemma, we must not base our ethical inquiry solely on the relationship between doctor and parent
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Zachary Schuessler Carolyn Lieberg English Composition Final April 21, 2011 The United States Of America Verses Gay Marriage. The Land of the Free, or the home of the bigot? Today many Americans enjoy a level of freedom that is, and has been, an unheard of luxury, by both past and present standards, around the World. However, these freedoms have not always been afforded to minority groups without a fight. One of these issues, the right for homosexual couples to marry. Is, and has been, a hot
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Ashley Clark-Johnson Professor Stansbury English 101 27 May 2015 The Reason Why Same-Sex Marriage Should be Legal Everywhere “The question before us is whether, consistent with the Massachusetts Constitution, the commonwealth may deny the protections, benefits, and obligations conferred by civil marriage to two individuals of the same sex who wish to marry… The Massachusetts Constitution affirms the dignity and equality of all individuals. It forbids the creation of second-class citizens.
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mettre à l'école d'une forme littéraire qui cherche à capturer, dans son mouvement même, la surprise, la confusion, l'illumination propre à une vie humaine et à la richesse des sentiments qui y trouvent place. Dans La Connaissance de l'amour, Martha Nussbaum entreprend ainsi un double exercice. Il s'agit d'abord de défendre une thèse de philosophie morale. Une thèse qui insiste sur la complexité irréductible des situations, sur l'importance des choses et des êtres particuliers, sur le fait que la
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profundity” (Walt 2013). It is believed to be the results of bad approach, and learning strategies of the academics that have been contributed to poor erudite writing. In 2010, Rachel Toor disputed that, “obscurity created an aura of importance” by Martha Nussbaum, as a way to counter the feminist activist, Judith Butler in 1999. These arguments are documented a couple of decades back if need to be verified. Academics have openly criticized the unwieldly dogmatism of academic fiction for generations, but
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United Development Program (UNDP). He helped invent the capabilities approach, which is the foundation of indices used by UNDP in their measurements. Through these indices the achievement in education and health can be measured in addition to income (Nussbaum, 67). Objectives The main aim of this paper is to establish whether the Human Development Reports (HDRs) have their base relying on the concept of capabilities approach and establish why they are based on the approach. Furthermore, it will endeavor
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Equality in Same Sex Marriages Should same-sex-marriage be legalized? Evidently, we as a nation are hesitant on this issue. Many people are against same sex marriage because of numerous reasons such as, religious beliefs or because they believe same sex couples could not raise a proper family. Although there are countless individuals against this issue gays, lesbians, and bisexuals (LGB) are fighting for equal rights everyday and will not give up until they get treated the same as any other
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identifying objectification is that the necessary and sufficient condition to treating a person as an object is to deny their humanity. But determining when this is happening to someone is what is what makes objectification difficult. Even within Martha Nussbaum's (22) list of 7 identifiable features: instrumentality, denial of autonomy, inertness, fungibility, violability, ownership and denial of subjectivity, we still come up short in how to determine if a persons humanity has been denied unless
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CSR as a way of mitigating the deleterious effects of the industrial paradigm on the environment. The practice of CSR by industrial companies is in vogue these days because of the fact that they have contributed to polluting the environment. As Martha Nussbaum contends, “If this world is to be a decent world in the future, “we must acknowledge right now that we are citizens of one interdependent world, held together by mutual fellowship as well as the pursuit of mutual advantage, by compassion as well
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Jeff Trangsrud PHI-105-2 (040613) 4:30pm-5:45pm Question 1 Several times Edward Bloom told the story about the birth of his son Will and how he retrieved his golden wedding ring from the big fish on the day that his son was born. We find out later in the movie from Dr. Bennet, their family doctor, that he had a normal birth and that his father was out of town on business the day he was born. Ed’s story
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