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    Topic: Personal‚ sociological and environmental antecedents have been identified in the entrepreneurial business. You are to find an article on an entrepreneur in a tourism or hospitality business and discuss your entrepreneur’s personal‚ sociological and environmental antecedents. Personal‚ sociological and environmental antecedents experienced by an individual and the consequences of these antecedents are critical in determining whether that individual has the capacity to become an entrepreneur

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    a) Explain key ideas in the Design Argument for the existence of God. (30 Marks) b) Assess the view that science has made the Design Argument a failure. (15 Marks) “With such signs of forethought in the design of living creature‚ can you doubt they are the work of choice or design?” (Socrates) The Design argument looks at the order and purpose‚ or telos‚ in the world and states that it implies that there must be a designer who made the world ‘just right’ for human existence. Religious believers

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    Virtue theory‚ utilitarianism‚ and deontological ethics are three of the different approaches to ethics. This paper will go over the similarities and differences between virtue theory‚ utilitarianism‚ and the deontological principles. It will also include information of the variations in how each concept details ethics‚ morality‚ and will also discuss a personal experience to describe the correlation between virtue‚ values‚ and moral perceptions as they relate to one of the three theories. Virtue

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    situation I know that my ethical/moral compass will not sway from doing the right thing. Ethics to me are a combination of both Kant’s theory on utilitarian ethics and deontological models. In Kant’s theory‚ using your decision to limit the number of people that are hurt by the decision cannot truly allow for proper ethics. At the same time‚ the deontological theory‚ we need to pay attention to all facts in a situation not just focus on the reasons the decisions were made. I would like to think that

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    Paley’s Teleological Argument William Paley’s teleological argument is the concept of how an object such as a stone can exist simply because it has been in one spot forever when you can’t say the same thing about a mechanical device such as a watch. Paley’s conclusion to this argument is that he believes an object or device‚ or in his example the watch‚ is created for a specific function or purpose‚ regardless of if it works properly‚ is defective or whether we understand how or why it was created

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    arguments is the Teleological argument‚ also known as the argument from design. The argument from design is based around the idea that the universe is too complex to have just appeared. William Paley uses a wrist watch as an example to describe this idea in more depth. Although there are many other idea that attempt to prove that there is not a creator‚ such as Darwin’s theory of evolution‚ the Teleological argument makes a very strong argument towards the existence of a God. The teleological argument has

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    Life is beautiful is a beautifully depicted film that has shown the experiences of the Jews from the holocaust. It was set in the World War I where Jews are made into slaves then later on‚ are killed. The main character‚ Guido‚ was a humorous Jewish man who married an Italian woman. Unfortunately‚ on the 4th birthday of their son‚ Guido and their son Joshua were forced to go into concentration camp together with other Jews. This movie has illustrated what love really is about. In fact‚ this movie

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    15 October 2012 Evaluation of the Teleological Argument The teleological argument argues that the universe must have had a designer‚ therefore implying the existence of a Supreme Being. This argument strongly relies on observations of the apparent design and orderly complexity within the universe that has existed long before humans inhabited and affected it. Everything is here for a reason‚ and everything has a purpose. From these main points‚ the teleological argument claims that the only way that

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    of animals that depend on the forests for food and shelter. Despite the fact that clearing of tropical forests increases land for farming so as to meet food demand for the growing population‚ the arguments of deontological ethical theory would disagree. According to deontological ethical theory‚ human beings are morally obligated to act according to certain set principles and rules regardless of the outcome of the

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    Deontological ethics or action-based theories mainly focus on the actions people implement. This allows people to break their bad habits and truly get rid of all the anger and hatred they contain. Deontologist believe that you should always do the right thing even if it results in pain rather than doing the wrong thing‚ it is your duty. One of history’s’ greatest philosophers‚ Immanuel Kant‚ was also a great believe of doing the right thing. His overall perspective within was that if you commit a

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