Essays on Morality

To begin with, what are ethics? In my perspective, ethics are moral principles that guides a person’s behavior or the choices a person makes. This means that the various principles of ethics are what help us make our everyday choices, which might be right or...

What is morality? Is morality the consequence of your actions or the reason behind them? If you ask Kant, he believes that because all humans have reason we all are inadvertently moral. I would argue that morality is the reasoning behind a human’s action rather...

In this paper, I am writing to support Moral Objectivism. But before I delve into why, I think it is necessary to define some related terms such as morals and morality, and the traits of moral principles. Thereafter, I will also present my rationale against...

Ethics also known as moral philosophy involves identification, defending, and recommending philosophy concepts of right and wrong conduct. Among many, these two schools of thought will be focused on: moral objectivism and relativism. In the scenario that a young lady who was 25 years old...

Over many centuries, there have been countless debates on what actually determines whether an action is right or wrong. Many philosophers such as Franz Boaz and Ruth Benedict have supported the claim that there are no moral absolutes. This is moral relativism: the view that...

Morals depend on well-established benchmarks of good and bad that recommend what people should do, more often than not as far as rights, commitments, advantages to society, reasonableness, or explicit excellences. Relativism is the possibility that sees in respect to contrasts in recognition and thought....

Unknowingly, we learn from society what is right and wrong through the things we learn, watch, read, or hear. Often times we may not agree with what society says is right and wrong and we forge our own path of right and wrong. Historically humans...

This paper will dive into Peter Singer’s ‘Famine, Affluence, and Morality” to demonstrate Singer and his position to relieving famine. First, an explanation of the article will give an idea of what Singer is arguing for, followed by, my position as well as potential objections...

Throughout the course of this paper, I will show that Simone de Beauvoir’s response to the advocate of the claim that morality requires the existence of God is defective. To do so, I will first consider de Beauvoir’s argument to theistic claim that if God...

Encryption refers to a method in which plaintext or other types of data are converted from a readable form to an encoded version. The encrypted text can only be decoded by an entity with access to the decryption key. Encryption has become broadly used in...