conscious‚” substantiates the inevitability of human rebellion through history and across texts‚ although‚ in contrast to Lang‚ Orwell shows that rebellion does not always prevail‚ revealing that tyrannies such as fascism and Stalinism annihilate human sentience. Orwell’s 1984 and Lang’s ‘Metropolis’ explicate the significance of individuality‚ revealing the dehumanising effects of conformity and extreme control arising from dictatorial
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Motivation Evaluation PSY/230 Motivation Evaluation Motivation can help and hinder the choices an individual makes‚ sometimes simultaneously. People act and behave various ways and some people may never be understood or why may never be pinpointed. However‚ every action or behavior is an impulse of an experience or the potential of that individual. Whether it is to achieve a goal‚ better themselves‚ or gain success people will act or behave certain ways through their specific form of motivation
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of monkeys as commodities‚ disposable resources that can be the object of distressing experimentation‚ for example‚’ says Mark Bernstein‚ a professor of philosophy and ethics at Purdue University in West Lafayette‚ Ind. ‘Just by virtue of their sentience‚ their capacity to suffer‚ they should have the minimal right to not suffer‚’ he says. ‘We don’t treat compromised human beings’ —
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fetus’s future and suffering of a loved one has no affect on the argument towards anti-abortion. Mary Anne Warren in On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion stated the characteristics which are central to the concept of personhood which are “sentience‚ emotionality‚ reason‚ the capacity to communicate‚ self awareness‚ and moral agency” (Cahn 193). In Warren’s requirements‚ adults are placed in the “persons” category. On the other hand‚ fetuses are not “persons” since fetuses do not abide to Warren’s
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victim named Edwards Evans was killed‚ Smith helped clean the body but out of consciousness‚ he told his wife and the police‚ which lead to their arrest. Right before their arrest Parliament abolished capital punishment so the couple could only be sentience life in prison.
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C. Jarv Consideration of Animal Rights Peter Singer’s Theory of equal consideration for animals means that animals should be equal rights with respect to their particular interests. If a bird’s interest is to lay eggs‚ nest‚ fly and eat. It should be left to those interests. Different animals species have different interests. Implications of this would be an animal would not work a farm‚ be used in research‚ be served on the dinner table or any other activity that might remove it from
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The study of The Epic of Gilgamesh is conducive to interpretation of origin‚ for in a character’s roots lies their motivations and compulsions. In Enkidu’s creation is revelation: he is not a mirror to Gilgamesh‚ but a superior foil of divine origin and mortal sustenance‚ a buffer between the gods and humanity. In observing the first few lines of the excerpt‚ it is obvious that Anu (the speaking god) asks for the making of a physical match for Gilgamesh’s capabilities; what is instead created is
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In this paper I will be discussing Gaverick Matheny’s concern with utilitarianism and its relationship to factory farm animals. Gaverick Matheny’s first premise is that utilitarianism is a legitimate ethical theory. Matheny’s second premise is that utilitarianism includes non-human interests. Matheny’s third premise is that factory farms violate utilitarian beliefs. Matheny’s conclusion‚ therefore‚ is that factory farms are unethical and that “most of us should change the way we live” (13)
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The Declaration of Independence states‚ “we hold these truths to be self-evident‚ that all men are created equal.” But‚ what does equal mean in the eyes of morality? Going back to Immanuel Kant and Jeremy Bentham‚ the study of moral theory is an attempt to provide systematic answers to questions about what to do and how to be (Foundations I notes). However‚ in order to answer the question of what to do‚ one must first answer the question of whose morality matters. In this essay‚ I explore theories
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The progression from God loving His creations in a way that a watchmaker would love his watches‚ as objects with a purpose‚ to loving them for what His creations can do with their sentience I find to be persuasive. The introduction of additional definitions (sensitivity to subjective experience‚ divine dependence & responsiveness) does not completely contradict traditional theism‚ but merely adds on to the definition in such a way
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