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    Moral Excellence

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    Aristotle was correct when he said that “moral excellence comes about as a result of habit”. Religions and many successful people of the world have made a habit of committing moral acts in order to achieve their moral excellence and sense of virtue. Anyone can achieve moral excellence as long as they develop the habits that can take them to the level that they wish to reach. In the religion of Christianity Aristotle’s beliefs are intact. In the bible Christians are told of commandments that they

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    Moral Values

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    A moral value is a universally accepted ethical principle that governs the day to day living of life. These principles are important in maintaining unity‚ harmony and honour between people. Moral values are usually communal and shared by the public in general‚ thus if there is no agreement among community members no moral values will be established. Moral values define the principles and standards which determine the extent to which human action or conduct is right or wrong. They encompass a wide

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    moral muscle

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    Moral Muscle can be defined as pushing ourselves to do more than the minimum in our moral life. Moral Muscle is not just having physical strength but metal strength. The phrase Moral Muscle is a metaphor in which shows a type of strength someone obtains mentally. Someone who exercises his or her moral muscles has an mindset to do the right thing. Someone is considered to have moral strength when they restrict themselves from doing bad things and in place of that commit good thing. Moral strength

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    Moral Rights

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    Christina Hoff Sommers thinks that schools should teach moral values while Joel Turtel believes that schools in America are not teaching moral education correctly. Turtel’s opinion on the moral education programmes and what they are turning young generations to is very extreme. Though I disagree with Turtel that teaching young people that “a value is good if it ‘works’ for a particular child at a particular time” is not the best solution and that this will cause children to be “turned into amoral

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    Moral Courage

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    Moral Courage Given our already stated definition of "moral courage" as (the ability to act rightly in the face of popular opposition‚ shame‚ scandal‚ or discouragement) several instances can be found throughout history of the use (or lack of) moral courage to influence the decisions impacting the significant events of the world. Our first demonstration of the lack of moral courage can be found during the Holocaust‚ in which Jewish men masqueraded in Hitler’s army and willingly took part in the

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    Moral Character

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    Moral Character Viewpoint Robin M Ritchey [ July 21‚ 2010 ] PHI/105 Eric Shark Discussion Question 1- Cluster 2 agreed that moral character is often formed by lessons learned as a child through either experience or through parental instruction. Moral character is also not always defined by a person’s habits‚ as habits are not always classified as good and bad‚ black and white. There are a lot of gray areas concerning habits. Moral character defines who a person is and what that person stands

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    The Moral of Drones

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    Yu Chen Professor Gaines ENGL 100 10/13/2014 The Moral of Drones Bradley Jay Strawser’s "The morality of drone warfare revisited" discusses his argument in support of using drones. The audience is the government. His thesis is that drone strikes may cause less collateral damage than bombing‚ but that is not an argument for current US targeted killing policy. Mark LeVine’s “When philosophers join the kill chain” discusses the negative side of drones. The audience is the scholars. His thesis is that

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    Moral Autobiography

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    My Moral Autobiography Junior year of high school I was diagnosed as having an eating disorder; I was anorexic which can be defined as "a serious‚ potentially life-threatening eating disorder characterized by self-starvation and excessive weight-loss" (http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org). This definition does not mention that the effects of this can range anywhere from death to the inability to have children. This medical definition is broad and does not really encompass any of the mental

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    Personal Responsibility

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    Personal Responsibility Lawrence M. DeWitt GEN/200 March 20‚ 2013 Personal Responsibility Personal responsibility to me‚ in regard to my collegiate education‚ means that I will strive to maintain a 4.0 GPA. In addition‚ I will be punctual when going to each class during the week‚ regardless of my work schedule and personal time. Attending on time is important for anything that has a certain start time‚ if it’s an appt. or a class. By showing up

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    moral complexity

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    oral complexity in the making and keeping of promises The making of a promise involves the voluntary giving of one’s word that‚ if and when a particular circumstance or situation comes about‚ one will undertake to act in a manner defined by the terms of the promise one has given. The act of making the promise‚ in other words‚ implies a willingness to keep it. What is being agreed is that‚ on the basis of something said in the past‚ one’s future actions will‚ insofar as the future is foreseeable

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