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Papers On Ethics
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Charles Taylor's "The Ethics Of Authenticity": Modernity
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7 pages in length. Charles Taylor condones the notion of progress it is just the residual effect that modernity creates that has him rather perturbed. In his book entitled "The Ethics Of Authenticity," Taylor weighs the quest of modernity to the fundamental aspects of being humane by questioning the very actions by which people have come to live their lives. The writer discusses how Taylor employs three malaises that effectively pose his concerns of a society gone awry from the influence of modernity: the comprehensive and far-reaching loss of meaning, the postulation that values have taken a back seat to personal conquest and the doubtful existence of a healthy self-government due to the presence of special-interest politics, with particular attention focuses on the first two. No additional sources cited.
Filename: TLCtylor.wps
Cheap Drugs for Africa; The Moral Issues of Treating AIDS
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This 10 page paper considers the ethical and legal issues that are relevant when considering the need of developing nations to access essential drugs, such as those for HIV/AIDS. Issues such are moral responsibility, profit, investment, protection and patents are also considered. Patent law referent to is both international and UK is approach. The bibliography cites 10 sources.
Filename: TEdrugai.rtf
Christian Morality Issues With Stem Cell Research
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This 8 page paper focuses ethical and moral issues regarding embryonic stem cell research. The writer approaches the topic using comments from experts and explains the controversy has one issue at its core: exactly when does human life begin? The essay explains what stem cells are and where they come from for the research as well as the benefits of stem cell research, in general. The morality issues are discussed using Scripture and documents from the Catholic Church. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: PGemstr.rtf
Citizenship
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A 6 page paper which examines global, and ethical, citizenship as examined through the works of Socrates, Sophocles, Dalai Lama, Pope John Paul and Martha Nussbaum. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: RAczp.rtf
Civil War in Liberia
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(8 pp) Who is Charles Taylor and what is he doing
to Liberia? According to Sheer (2000), from 1990
to 1997, 30,000 to 60,000 armed fighters (10
percent of whom were under the age of 15) raped,
stole, and killed their way across the country of
what used to be 2.5 million people. Approximately
150,000 to 200,000 people were killed and
1.5million fled their homes. Civil warfare has
been eating away at this African nation since
1989. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: BBLberia.doc
Classical Virtue Theory & Contemporary Human Behavior
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A 5 page paper that considers whether the ethics of classical virtue theory can be applied to contemporary human behaviors. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: Virtue.wps
Clever as Serpents by Grote and McGeeney
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A 6 page reflection on Jim Grote and John McGeeneys book Clever as Serpents. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAserpn.rtf
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