choice and restricted choice. While restricted choices are made more often in daily life, ultimate choices are made when one is facing a decision that can benefit himself or can go against his ethical values. In my understanding, restricted choices are decisions that can be made without thinking critically or be done with some consideration. These choices are often made by a person’s interest. The decision, whether is good or bad, cannot affect the other’s interests. For example, a student chooses chemistry
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impassioned love--friends, counselors--a mutual support and inspiration to each other amid life's struggles, must know the highest human happiness;--this is marriage; and this is the only cornerstone of an enduring home. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton | | | A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and the way they express their love. - Pearl S. Buck The man who has entered into a beautiful union is sure of at least one person to whom he can give the best the he possesses
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be the extreme of either of these things. Moral individualism is not absolutely good or bad. The moral individualist can stand up against a community's horrible moral standards for example. The sub-categories of utilitarian individualism and expressive individualism are also not necessarily good or bad. A utilitarian individualist may invent a cure for a disease to make a profit or to save a loved one -- good still comes from it. An expressive individualist may give to charity in order to gain
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practical or have significance in the real world as they are too distant. Even if they do exist, do they have a practical function? Can they help humans make decisions about practical matters? In addition very few people will obtain knowledge of the good therefore can the Forms realistically be understood and accepted by all? In this way the Theory is not convincing as it leaves many basic questions unanswered. We are also to question whether there are Forms for everything, from a stone to a lampshade
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things that have been fulfilled among us, 2just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. 3Therefore, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, it seemed good also to me to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus.” That, in itself, is evidence. Then when adding the other gospels our case becomes stronger because we have ‘corroborating evidence.’ ***Corroborating Evidence is evidence
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QUESTIONS: MODULE 1 1. What are the fundamental aspects of Plato's ideal state? 2. What are the major ideas of Aristophanes and Socrates? 3. Examine Aristotle's view on education and its role in polity? 4. What is the origin and nature of Aristotle's best state? 5. What in the views of Cicero constitute the nature and meaning of law? MODULE 2 1. What is St. Augustine's views in the relationship between the church and state? 2. Why did feudalism last for a very long time? 3. Identify and discuss
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philosopher Socrates once stated “the only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.” Individuals seek knowledge and/or the truth to understand why they are in a situation, to make better decisions, etc., without being aware that knowledge has a limited ability to present happiness for those who attempt to obtain it. Yet, it can fill the void created by the unknown. In the Greek tragedy, Oedipus the King, Oedipus’s quest for knowledge leads to his own downfall. In both life and literature
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A Search for “One Amazing Thing” in my life…. Aravind Karthikeyan Being involved with selling books in a premium stall as in like penquin, it is indeed a great privilege that one can delight himself through swimming in that pool of literature and exploring ways to develop various patterns of thinking and such a privilege was a gift for me, in this book fair time. Whenever time stretched me an opportunity to take a long breathe as in a rest, I always wanted to feel my breath through a book which
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01/10/2012-2nd paper Cold Nightsky I think of death as a transcendence to another state of being, that even after death I will keep on existing. At least I hope and live my life as such, since I love living, therefore I must keep on existing.. I must admit that I don’t think I would be in a healthy mental state to write this paper, if I really had pondered about the thought of death as an ending. I believe one would think of death in a real sense, either when they end up in a position
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time and change the sequence of events leading up to the biggest mistake of your life? Most would automatically seize this seemingly glorious opportunity without a second thought, never taking into account the consequences that could proceed. In the film The Butterfly Effect, Ashton Kutcher plays Evan, a young boy with a genetic predisposition to psychosis, and the ability to travel back in time and redo events in his life. What is first viewed as a gift soon becomes a nightmare as Evan realizes while
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