Moral Relativism At first glance, moral relativism appears to be an appealing, well though out philosophical view; the truth of moral judgments is relative to the judging subject or community. The basic definition of moral relativism is that all moral points of view are equally valid; no single ...

Andrew Linzey: The Place of Animals in Creation Andrew Linzey's article, The Place of Animals in Creation, presents a Christian viewpoint on the issue of animal experimentation. Every year millions of animals are killed in experimentation that supposedly someway benefit humans. The USDA re...

The Eric Lamaze case poses an interesting dilemma to the Canadian Olympic Committee. In a state of panic resulting from false information given to him about his removal from the Olympic Team, he began to suffer from intense depression resulting in intoxication and a lapse in judgment in using an il...

Women Must be Free to Choose Abortion There comes a time in the lives of most women when an ovum, fertilized with sperm, will implant itself into her uterine wall. This is nature's first step in its attempt to continue the human race. Currently, when this implantation occ...

Robert Louis Stevenson's famous, dark, haunting and terrific short novel, "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" was first published in 1886 and is still absorbing, relevant and deeply disturbing in this twenty- first century. Stevenson explores not only the theme of duality, ...

The Code of Hammurabi Hammurabi, king of Babylonia from 1795-1750 BC, is the earliest recorded example of a ruler or king that gave his people a written "entire body of laws arranged in orderly groups" (Horne 1). He did this so that all people under his control would know what he ...

Authoritarianism is defined as a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator. However society sometimes views authoritarianism as misused authority. Valid authority is aligned upon a necessary purpose. Misused authority involves reality control and domination. Metaphorically, it is...

Most people think they know what cloning is. They would define it, probably, as taking a piece of one plant or animal and using it to make another just like it. In fact, Brannigan points out that the term "clone" was very likely first used in botany to describe the process of budding. ...

Abortion Abortion is one of the most controversial issues. In America, two groups are seriously debating this issue; pro-choice and pro-life. While pro-choice saying that abortion is the individual choice of free will to do what they think is right, pro-life objects are morally wrong and are also a...

Under the principals of Utilitarianism, the entire process of reversing permanent birth control, conceiving a child on the possibility of having compatible bone marrow, and putting an infant though a painful surgery to save the life of an older sister can be moral but not always depending on how you...

What do the words, "We, the people of the United States" and the reasons for the creation and existence of the United States of America mean to you? To me, they mean that people that sought freedom from religious persecution, economic oppression and equality under the Declaration of Ind...

The issue of torture is a rising and very debatable topic in the government and the American public's eyes. The authors Jonathan Alter and Henry Porter have different takes on the topic of how torture should be legal or why torture is against the law today in the articles: "Time To Think...

International Human Rights as a concept, furthermore, as a good concept is not an agenda any sane person could dispute. Why then, are we inundated with human rights violations on a daily basis? What is the problem here? This is the question that plagues human rights discussion, and this is the qu...

The abstract concept of evil has vastly transformed throughout human history, ranging for the supernatural and mystical to the very humans amongst whom we live. In modern times, evil has become an entirely ambiguous term. Who is evil? What is evil? Men like Adolph Hitler and Saddam Hussein have been...

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"Nietzsche: morality; "How ought I to be?" Nietzsche abhorred all morality; he felt it is fodder for the mindless masses (the herd). It deadens and destroys the individual, condemns creativity, and gives man no credit to make choices. It assumes man can not know what to do, s...

John Stuart Mill theorized the 'principle of utility' or 'the greatest happiness principle'; which sought for the systematic coherency of ethical philosophy through the consequences of actions. He believed that this principle was the primary consideration determining social morality, pres...

Lord of the Flies In the Lord of the Flies, a movie based on the novel by William Golding, a group of young, pre-adolescent boys are shipwrecked on an island, and they are on their own to fend for themselves. It would make the most sense for these boys to work together as a survival strategy ...

Ring.... Ring...It's 7:30 PM, it's dinner time, do you know where everyone is? You may not know where your entire family is, but Telemarketers are pretty certain that they will be able to find you, whether the timing is convenient or not. In today's new day and age, the fight to gai...