Morality

The academic article Huck Finn, Moral Reasons and Sympathy by Craig Taylor invites the reader into the world of Mark Twain’s iconic novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It illuminates the potent philosophical question of whether or not Huck Finn should be deemed morally praiseworthy in response to his concealment of the true identity of…

That’s Extreme Dude! If a person that never lived in the twentieth century visited 1997 for just one day, he or she would probably think that we are all trying to kill ourselves. Everything from sports, to music, to advertisements is extreme these days. People are doing things in sports that have never been attempted…

A discussion and understanding of ethics are crucial to be able to properly address issues that threaten Canadian society and the engineering profession. Ethics between all people and groups (business, religion etc.) is important. The definition of ethics is “Moral principles that govern a person’s behaviour or the conducting of an activity” (Merriam-Webster dictionary). Ethics…

Adventures Of Huck Finn And Morality In every persons life at one point they will have to make a choice based on their moral beliefs. These decisions can show what a person believes in right from the start. In Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the main character Huck, makes two very important moral…

The nineteen-seventies was an incredible decade. It was a decade of change, one of freedom, a time for great music. It was also an incredible decade for shock, fear and serial killers. John Wayne Gacy, an amateur clown, was a pedophiliac homosexual. He tortured and killed thirty three little boys and stored their remains under…

In the Inferno, Dante takes us on a journey through Hell. Dante describes the sins and the punishment in great detail. He puts the severity of the sins in a particular order, where the further one goes down, the more severe the sin. The order that Dante puts the sins in are: incontinence, violence, fraud,…

Was born at Caravaggio in Lombardy on September 28, 1573. His childhood was lived in a quite atmosphere in the small town located between Brescia and Milan. Caravaggio became orphaned at a very young age, and coincidentally was sent to Milan to study painting. This is where his career started. During the Eighteen years between…

Thomas Hobbes created what is presently regarded to be one of the four pillars of moral philosophy, his Social Contract Theory, to explain the origins of morality through a structured and logical approach. However, upon closer analysis, it becomes clear that this theory is inherently flawed and is strictly bound by several limitations that prevent…

During the span of our lives, we develop new meaningful, as well as inconsequential, relationships daily. We accomplish this through the means of communication, we communicate with each other on a daily basis and relationships are developed. We decide which relationships stay as acquaintances, which relationships become casual friends, and which reach a level of…

From the origin of Western philosophical thought, there has been an interest in moral laws. As Hume points out in the Treatise, morality is a subject that interests us above all others (David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature’). Originally, thoughts of how to live were centered on the issue of having the most satisfying…