After reading the case involving an Augusta State University graduate student refusing to counsel homosexual clients, I agree with decision that the court made. According to the ACA code of ethics (2014) section, A.4.b., counselors should be aware of and avoid imposing their own values, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors. As a counseling in training Jennifer Keeton should have been familiar with the code of ethics and she should have known what was expected from her. Just like that case in the article
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The earth gladly offers up her gifts, and the ferocious creatures of the cliffs peacefully draw near."At the opposite end of this spectrum stood Apollo the God of moderation and knowledge, also the God of representational arts who we find " as an ethical deity, demands moderation from his followers and in order to maintain it, self knowledge". The Apollonian dictates; "know thyself" and "nothing to excess", in other words to experience oneself as a complete and self contained independent entity of
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capitalism lead him to the solution of socialism as a natural result and believed that capitalism would eventually break down. Plato is a philosopher from Greece that lived from 423 BC to 348 BC and was a extremely important figure in the development of philosophy. His theory of the forms and allegory of the cave are well known and respected metaphysical ideas of Plato. These metaphysical ideas however highly contrast Karl Marx's ideas on what is real. Karl Marx's metaphysics are that the universe is all
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This essay will examine Plato’s Meno. In particular, I will examine the passage from 77c to 78b, in which Socrates persuades Meno that no one desires bad things. Ultimately, this essay concerns the construction of virtue under the Socratic Method. The structure of this essay is as follows: First, I will briefly provide an outline of Socrates’ argument against Meno’s idea of virtue. After which, I will provide a counter to Socrates’ argument, in short being – virtue (again, good) does not exist as
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nature. Friedrich Nietzsche a 19th century philosopher takes a different approach to the idea of religion in his literary narrative “The Gay Science”. In this narrative Nietzsche makes the bold statement that “God is Dead” (Nietzsche 95), claiming that we are responsible. This is rather extreme statement in any context, however considering the time period in which he was writing, a time where
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Universal knowledge is not to be acquired, but is innate. Plato's thoughts considered as his most influential work was the theory of having Innate Knowledge or in other words natural knowledge; implying that knowledge is already in you. I believe this statement is to be true and I argue in favor on Plato’s works in relation to the same thinking. In his work, Plato claims that innate knowledge is not earned but instead implies that knowledge is already in you from birth. Plato argues that all wisdom
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Medical codes of ethics are very similar to one another no matter what field you are in. Take the code of conduct for nurse and the code for physical therapist assistants for example; they are two different professions that take almost the same route of creating a safe environment for patients. Let’s take a look at the code for respect in the APTA Guide’s Standard 1A it states, “Physical therapist assistants shall act in a respectful manner toward each person regardless of age, gender, race, nationality
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How do you reconcile a request from an African American inmate to allow a transfer out of a section which is primarily White Supremacist? Justify your response, in terms of both utilitarianism and Kant’s theories. I learned while conducting research on the above topic that Kantian ethics is considered to be "deontological" in sense that it holds an action is "right" in and of itself without appeal to consequences. Kant explains that a faculty of the human mind called "practical reason" makes demands
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Part 1: Demonstrate the differences between science, religion, and philosophy. Philosophy, science, and religion are all fields of study striving for an understanding and interpretation of the world around us, but each field approaches the problem differently. Philosophy attempts to understand the world through reason alone, with logic as its primary tool for progress. Aristotle's take on Plato's Forms would be a fitting example, using logic and reason to work through perceived problems in his
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1) What do recent developments in cosmology and biology suggest about the role of teleological explanation in the sciences? What implications, if any, does this have for religion? Due to recent developments in the natural sciences fields of cosmology and biology the information suggests that the theistic worldview is easily reinforced through the Anthropic Cosmological Principle. The cosmological principle states that strengths of controlling forces of nature are determined by constants in nature
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