Essays on Morality

At the heels of the satirical Victorian morality delineated through Wilde’s play, The Importance of Being Earnest, a judiciously executed perception directed at society is apparent. To study a text 120 years on, what’s the point? At the time Oscar Wilde’s satirical view and the way which he composed his judgments on the Victorian society...

Whether or not morality impacts the law has been a long-standing debate between many theorists. This essay will begin by discussing the theories that believe morality has no place within the law such as positivism, as they believe the law is man-made by humans and those in power, it is not considered as law if...

Ethics, duties, and moral obligations are most often seen as other regarding. We are commanded to respect other beings, animate, and inanimate objects. However, is the moral law solely applicable to others, or does it also apply to the being him/herself? According to Immanuel Kant, moral obligations to the self “take first rank and are...

There has been a great debate about the relationship between vegetarianism and morality. While the arguments against eating meat are quite convincing, there were only a few researches to justify the morality of consuming animal product. However, I believe that morality does not require vegetarianism since it is not the only choice to live life...

As we prepare to take a look at the relationship between law and morality, it was good to review some material found in the early part of the textbook, Contemporary Criminal Law. The review prepares a basis for understanding what law is, which first of all means we have to understand what defines a crime....

‘It is totally unnatural, it’s not morally right!’ I can imagine that this is the kind of argument and statement that one will hear on many an occasion when discussing controversial topics, such as same-sex marriage or whether it is right or not for women to have an abortion. The question one must ask oneself...

Perception is essentially a man’s reaction to the world around him; he processes everything around him and forms opinions based on it. It is is ‘man’s primary form of cognitive contact with the world around him. As all conceptual knowledge is based upon or derived from this primary form of awareness, the study of perception...

The following two arguments regard the concept of morality of the human race and whether or not it is something which can be easily classified into groups of unmoral or moral or in Ruth Benedicts case, a concept which cannot be classified simply as black and white and therefore, cannot be used when describing human...

This essay aims to explore the involvement of morality within various legal systems throughout history in order to assess an understanding of the components of law. It explores conflicting ideas such as legal positivism and natural law; assessing how relevant morality is to the individual concept of these ideas. Moreover, it also aims to evaluate...

Morality For the final essay of Asia through its movies I am being asked to write an analysis paper on a common theme across three movies from three different parts of Asia. The movies I have chosen to work with are, A Separation an Iranian drama about the dissolution of a marriage; Joint Security Area...