a) Outline your knowledge and understanding of the moral teaching contained in the Beatitudes The Beatitudes are part of Jesus’ teachings on the Sermon on the Mount. In them‚ he describes eight types of people that will be happy or blessed in the next life‚ and these teachings are morally significant to Christians. They contain values and attitudes which Christians today must attempt to reflect if they are to live a moral life. Jesus portrays the perfect disciple through the Beatitudes as he states
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distress‚ even though they have moral status and rights. A right is a particular way of protecting interests‚ to say that an interest is protected by a right‚ is to say that interest is protected against being ignored or violated simple because this will benefit someone else. So what are animal rights? Animal rights is the idea that animals have the same rights as humans‚ to live free of suffrage‚ just as important as living individuals‚ and with the same moral status as humans. According to Doris
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relationship between youth and moral Values . If youths adopt all moral values and operate their life according to this ‚ then they will become more responsible for performing their duty . After this nobody can misuse youths. Today ‚ youths are not responsible because they do not know their moral values . They abuse their parents . They scold their elders . Even ‚ they do not feel shame to insult others by commenting bad . Why are spreading these things . Answer is clear . Lack of moral value and its
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Moral values are must in student’s life Good Morning everyone‚ today I‚ Nikhil Chauhan of class X B is standing in front of you to speak few lines on “importance of moral values in our life” It would not be inappropriate if we say that moral values from our lives are slowly disappearing. Those days are gone when we all were keen to help our neighbors at their struggling moment‚ to victims of any difficulty and needy persons of our society. Today if a person meets any serious accident‚ no
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Antigone’s Moral Dilemma Margaret Walsh South University Online Antigone’s Moral Dilemma Perhaps the most pronounced question in the play "Antigone" by Sophocles’ is the value of human law vs. divine law. In this tragic play a newly appointed king Creon declares to his people that treason was committed during battle‚ and
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prosperity gap is a serious moral problem. Some people believe it’s a religious problem. Jim Wallis‚ a Christian writer and political activist‚ have said "God hates inequality."‚ when calling for a rise of the minimum wages. The United States public principles form by the Judeo-Christian tradition guides people with pride as equals before the law‚ regardless of their social status. There are many talks about greed in the Bible‚ but not one passage that shows income inequality is a moral evil. Americans worry
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Happiness and Moral Virtue In Aristotle’s Nicomachaen Ethics‚ the principle concern is the nature of human well-being. According to Aristotle‚ everything we do in life‚ we do for the sake of some good‚ or at least something perceived to be good (1094a1-3). When inquiring as to whether there is some good desired for its own sake‚ Aristotle envisioned a problem that either there is an infinite series of goods desired for the sake of something higher‚ in which case one’s desires can never be satisfied
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In the play HAMLET the value of morals really showed prevalence early on‚ But it was difficult identifying most characters morals from the beginning of the play to the end. The biggest character who value changed throughout is the main character Hamlet. The play begins with sentinels changing guard positions on castle ground after the security was increased. Then the showing of what appears to be the dead king start to appear to Horatio‚ Barnado and Marcellus who are very close friends to Hamlet
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‘Although writers often claim they do not wish to be moralistic‚ almost every work contains a moral issue. To what extent‚ in what ways and to what effect has the author of the text you have studied explored this issue?’ F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby has to a great extent explored the moral issues implicit in his 1920’s context. Fitzgerald explores the lack of religion‚ the corruption of the American Dream and the superficial values of his society in order to make his society reflect
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In A Defense of Moral Relativism‚ Ruth Benedict argues that normal behavior varies from society to society; therefore‚ what’s morally right for one society can be morally wrong for another. To support this argument‚ Benedict mentions how certain cultures practice what’s “abnormal” to us without any difficulty. She goes further to give examples of traits that are abnormal to us such as‚ “sadism or delusions grandeur or of persecution” (Benedict‚ 1934‚ p.1) and concludes saying that “these abnormal
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