Especially sense‚ as according to the polls taken in Pojman’s philosophy classes‚ about two thirds of students affirmed moral relativism‚ meaning that if everyone in the school believed it was morally right to cheat - then it was right to cheat (Pojman‚ 242). Let’s assume a situation where your friend tells you she’s planning on cheating on her exam‚ and justifies her plan on the grounds that cheating is the norm at her school. In this situation‚ the student may fully believe she is acting morally
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possible murderers from killing innocent people‚ therefore saving innocent lives. Even though there is no evidence to show deterrence it is pretty obvious that deterrence would happen with capital punishment. In his argument for capital punishment Pojman brings up the lightening scenario. Which is a scenario where every time a person commits murder there are then struck and killed by a bolt of lightening. If fellow future murderers see every murderer being struck by lightening then it would most
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Ethical Relativism is the belief that nothing is objectively right or wrong and that the meaning of what is right and wrong depends on the individual and culture. Pojman breaks down Ethical Relativism into 2 main concepts: The Diversity Theory and the Dependency Theory. The Diversity Theory addresses the concept of what is morally right and wrong varies from society to society; therefore‚ there is no universal moral principles that all societies accept. For example‚ Homosexuality in the Middle East
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history of bright ideas. Looking at the great breakthroughs we had since civilisation began‚we see that from to time there has been individuals and groups who challenged established beliefs and overcame limitations that had kept back the race. Known history records breakthroughs with bright ideas and based in this‚we can safely say that even in mankind a early breakthroughs had probably been brought about by bright ideas. This trend continues today as man progresses onwards. The first bright idea man
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Bright Light Innovations: The Starlight Stove Bright Light Innovations has a top management team made up of students and faculty from Colorado State University’s Colleges of Business and Engineering. The management team has developed a product known as the Starlight Stove. This stove was developed in hopes to improve the overall quality of life for less fortunate people. The management team wishes to address the everyday consumer needs for safe cooking and electricity. The Starlight
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central focus of the poem. The star is said to be eternal "patient"‚ unchanging "sleepless"‚ and beyond the speaker’s immediate grasp "aloft". The star is described as watching over earth rather than being watched by someone. Bright star! Would I were steadfast as thou art Bright star‚ would I were stedfast as thou art--- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching‚ with eternal lids apart‚ Like Nature’s patient sleepless Eremite The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution
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Louis Pojman argues for objectivism instead of relativism in morality even though we are attracted to the idea of relativism. Ethical relativism is made up of a diversity thesis and a dependency thesis. The diversity thesis is also known as cultural relativism and basically states that morality is different between different societies. The dependency thesis is similar to the diversity thesis‚ but states that morality depends on the context of the society. There are two views on the dependency
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Morality and ethics create the bridge between the savage and rational side of each human being. With the intent of explaining morality‚ Pojman displays three different types of ethical backgrounds. The first being ethical relativism which states that an individual’s beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of the person’s own culture. This idea explains whether or not morality is only a fragment of a person’s cultural norm instead of anything truly universal. For example‚ in
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thoughts on the earth. Some people argue that the future is bright because of the developments in medicine that more then before effective medicines are being made which sometimes can work for treatment of disease‚ without any operation. And they also argue that in recent years the machinery has made the work easier everywhere‚ such as houses‚ offices‚ shopping malls and other places. But from my point of view‚ the future is not bright. Of course‚ I don’t ignore the day-by-day developments and those
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Is It Love? “Burning Bright” is a story about an older woman marrying a man young enough to be her son. Marcie is almost sixty. When her husband Arthur died and the local help fell away‚ she endured incredible loneliness at the end of a five-mile dirt track until the church recommended a handyman‚ Carl‚ who could help out on the farm. This silent man from nowhere marries Marcie‚ but remains mysterious. In the twenty-first century‚ seeing an older women and a young man is common. For most people
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