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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Core issues in ethics | | | |  Core issues in ethics: Encyclopedia II - Racialism - Identity politicsWithin identity politics, many groups have emphasised their own race, and the importance or racial differences, whether they be cultural, economic, biological, or political.
The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, and similar organisations, advocate the welfare of a specific ethnicity, without a harmful intent towards others.
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See also:Racialism, Racialism - Distinguishing from racism, Racialism - Use by white separatist and white supremacist groups, Racialism - W. E. B. DuBois, Racialism - Identity politics, Racialism - Sources Read more here: » Racialism: Encyclopedia II - Racialism - Identity politics |
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| | | | | Core issues in ethics: Encyclopedia II - Racial purity - Popular Culture The Harry Potter books and movies address the theme of racial purity directly. In the Harry Potter setting, some people are "wizards" (able to perform magic) and others are "Muggles" (unable to perform magic). However, presumably because of genetic mixing in past generations, sometimes a "Muggle-born" turns out to be a wizard, and occasionally a "Wizard-born" person is a "squib", with little or no magical ability.
The Death Eaters, an evil group dedicated to world conquest, include a number of "pure" wizards with (supposedly) no Muggl ...
See also:Racial purity, Racial purity - Racial purity vs. Genetic diversity, Racial purity - Effects on Health, Racial purity - Effects on Evolution, Racial purity - Popular Culture, Racial purity - Reference Read more here: » Racial purity: Encyclopedia II - Racial purity - Popular Culture |
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| | | | | Core issues in ethics: Encyclopedia II - Evil - Is evil universal? A fundamental question is whether there is a universal, transcendant definition of evil, or whether evil is determined by one's social or cultural background. The term evil is often reserved for reputed transgressions, inhumanities or moral corruptions which have reached a particularly 'extreme' degree. For example, activities such as rape, child molestation, serial killings, terrorism, and genocidal dictatorship are often considered evil. Some people, especially for religious reasons, regard such acts as homosexual behavior or abortions as evil, although there is wide societal disagreement ...
See also:Evil, Evil - Etymology, Evil - Evil as a religious concept, Evil - Zoroastrianism, Evil - Judaeo-Christian religions, Evil - Is evil universal?, Evil - Is evil a useful term?, Evil - Is evil good?, Evil - Sociological views on evil, Evil - Evil in business, Evil - Hacker jargon, Evil - books Read more here: » Evil: Encyclopedia II - Evil - Is evil universal? |
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| | | | | Core issues in ethics: Encyclopedia II - Evil - Is evil a useful term? The definition of evil has engendered some debate, much as the term terrorism has. It has been said that evil is subjective, that one person's idea of evil can be another person's idea of good, much like one person's terrorist is a freedom fighter of another. The term is often used by people or groups against their enemies, largely to evoke a strong emotional response against the person or group. For example, this claim has been made by some critics of the U.S. President George W. Bush with regard to his labeling North Kore ...
See also:Evil, Evil - Etymology, Evil - Evil as a religious concept, Evil - Zoroastrianism, Evil - Judaeo-Christian religions, Evil - Is evil universal?, Evil - Is evil a useful term?, Evil - Is evil good?, Evil - Sociological views on evil, Evil - Evil in business, Evil - Hacker jargon, Evil - books Read more here: » Evil: Encyclopedia II - Evil - Is evil a useful term? |
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| | | | | Core issues in ethics: Encyclopedia II - Evil - Is evil good? Anton LaVey is one of many who assert that evil is actually good (an often-used slogan is, "evil is live spelled backwards"). This belief is usually a reaction to religious definitions of evil, which some think oppose the natural pleasures of life or the natural instincts of men and women. In the more extreme cases, however, this belief can extend to the claim that hurting others is acceptable if you can get away with it.
In modern slang, "bad" has become a synonym for "good", as in "Man, that's a bad piece of music." In the tabletop ...
See also:Evil, Evil - Etymology, Evil - Evil as a religious concept, Evil - Zoroastrianism, Evil - Judaeo-Christian religions, Evil - Is evil universal?, Evil - Is evil a useful term?, Evil - Is evil good?, Evil - Sociological views on evil, Evil - Evil in business, Evil - Hacker jargon, Evil - books Read more here: » Evil: Encyclopedia II - Evil - Is evil good? |
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| | | | | Core issues in ethics: Encyclopedia II - Evil - Sociological views on evil Some sociologists, psychologists, psychiatrists and neuroscientists have attempted to construct scientific explanations for the development of specific characteristics of an "antisocial" personality type, called the sociopath. The sociopath is typified by extreme self-serving behavior, and a lack of conscience, or inability to empathize with others, to restrain self from, or to feel remorse for, harm personally caused to others. However, a diagnosis of antisocial or sociopath personality disorder (formerly called psychopathic mental disorder ...
See also:Evil, Evil - Etymology, Evil - Evil as a religious concept, Evil - Zoroastrianism, Evil - Judaeo-Christian religions, Evil - Is evil universal?, Evil - Is evil a useful term?, Evil - Is evil good?, Evil - Sociological views on evil, Evil - Evil in business, Evil - Hacker jargon, Evil - books Read more here: » Evil: Encyclopedia II - Evil - Sociological views on evil |
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| | | | | Core issues in ethics: Encyclopedia II - Evil - Evil as a religious concept Most ancient polytheist cultures lacked a concept of evil as a human quality or as a quality of human actions, or if they had such a concept, they did not place as much importance on it as have their monotheist successors. In the world of the Odyssey and Iliad epic poems, for example, there are acknowledged human virtues such as honor, faithfulness, and vengeance (which became a sin in Christian thought) but no direct corollary to the modern concept of evil. Likewise, Homeric characters are subject to judgement by the gods, but that judgement is often questionable as the go ...
See also:Evil, Evil - Etymology, Evil - Evil as a religious concept, Evil - Zoroastrianism, Evil - Judaeo-Christian religions, Evil - Is evil universal?, Evil - Is evil a useful term?, Evil - Is evil good?, Evil - Sociological views on evil, Evil - Evil in business, Evil - Hacker jargon, Evil - books Read more here: » Evil: Encyclopedia II - Evil - Evil as a religious concept |
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| | | | | | | | Core issues in ethics: Encyclopedia II - Evil - Hacker jargon As used by computer hackers, the jargon term evil implies that some system, program, person, or institution is sufficiently maldesigned as to be not worth the bother of dealing with. Unlike the adjectives in the cretinous/losing/brain damaged series, evil does not imply incompetence or bad design, but rather a set of goals or design criteria fatally incompatible with the speaker's, and often acts as a synonym for the word difficult. This usage is more an aesthetic and engineering judgment than a moral one in the mainstre ...
See also:Evil, Evil - Etymology, Evil - Evil as a religious concept, Evil - Zoroastrianism, Evil - Judaeo-Christian religions, Evil - Is evil universal?, Evil - Is evil a useful term?, Evil - Is evil good?, Evil - Sociological views on evil, Evil - Evil in business, Evil - Hacker jargon, Evil - books Read more here: » Evil: Encyclopedia II - Evil - Hacker jargon |
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| | | | | Core issues in ethics: Encyclopedia II - Reality - Reality world views and theories of reality A common colloquial usage would have "reality" mean "perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes toward reality," as in "My reality is not your reality." This is often used just as a colloquialism indicating that the parties to a conversation agree, or should agree, not to quibble over deeply different conceptions of what is real. For example, in a religious discussion between friends, one might say (attempting hu ...
See also:Reality, Reality - Simple reality, Reality - Phenomenological reality, Reality - Truth, Reality - Fact, Reality - Axiom, Reality - What reality might not be, Reality - Reality world views and theories of reality, Reality - Philosophical views of reality Read more here: » Reality: Encyclopedia II - Reality - Reality world views and theories of reality |
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| | | | | Core issues in ethics: Encyclopedia II - Reality - Philosophical views of reality Philosophy addresses two different aspects of the topic of reality: the nature of reality itself, and the relationship between the mind (as well as language and culture) and reality.
On the one hand, ontology is the study of being, and the central topic of the field is couched, variously, in terms of being, existence, "what is," and reality. The task in ontology is to describe the most general categories of reality and how they are interrelated. If--what is rarely done--a philosopher wanted to proffer a positive definition of the conc ...
See also:Reality, Reality - Simple reality, Reality - Phenomenological reality, Reality - Truth, Reality - Fact, Reality - Axiom, Reality - What reality might not be, Reality - Reality world views and theories of reality, Reality - Philosophical views of reality Read more here: » Reality: Encyclopedia II - Reality - Philosophical views of reality |
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| | | | | Core issues in ethics: Encyclopedia II - Equity - History The concept of "law" as opposed to "equity" is an accident of history. The "law courts" or "courts of law" were the courts all over England that enforced the king's laws in medieval times. At the end of the 13th century, under political pressure from the nobility, the courts of law gradually froze the types of claims they would hear, and the procedure that governed the hearing of those claims. Because the range of legal claims at that time was quite narrow, legal procedures were painfully hypertechnical, and jurors were often bribed, the result was that many meritori ...
See also:Equity, Equity - History, Equity - Distinction between law and equity, Equity - United States, Equity - External link Read more here: » Equity: Encyclopedia II - Equity - History |
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| | | | | Core issues in ethics: Encyclopedia II - Reality - Axiom Axioms are self-evident realities, the existence of which is accepted as given and on which further conceptions are generated.
The facts of a natural world would hold true only in the systemic construction of that world. Hence in a different system, the facts of another world might no longer hold valid. The fact that 'the sun rises in the east', might not be valid in a different solar system where the planet might be tilted in a different angle, or revolving in a different direction around its star, so that the star might rise on the ...
See also:Reality, Reality - Simple reality, Reality - Phenomenological reality, Reality - Truth, Reality - Fact, Reality - Axiom, Reality - What reality might not be, Reality - Reality world views and theories of reality, Reality - Philosophical views of reality Read more here: » Reality: Encyclopedia II - Reality - Axiom |
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| | | | | Core issues in ethics: Encyclopedia II - Reality - Fact A fact or factual entity is a phenomenon that is perceived as an elemental principle. It is rarely one that could be subject to personal interpretation. Instead it is most often the observed phenomena of the natural world. The proposition 'the sun rises in the east', is a fact. It is a fact for people belonging to any group or nationality regardless of which language they speak or which part of the hemisphere they come from. The Galilean proposition in support of the Copernican theory, that the sun is the centre of the solar system is one th ...
See also:Reality, Reality - Simple reality, Reality - Phenomenological reality, Reality - Truth, Reality - Fact, Reality - Axiom, Reality - What reality might not be, Reality - Reality world views and theories of reality, Reality - Philosophical views of reality Read more here: » Reality: Encyclopedia II - Reality - Fact |
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| | | | | | Core issues in ethics: Encyclopedia II - Reality - Simple reality In the simplest sense, our reality consists of our four-dimensional world: height, width, depth and time. What happens when we lose one of these dimensions from our reality? What if we lose depth, for instance? Most people would reply that we'd then have a cinematic effect, as in a movie. When we view a motion picture, what we are watching has height, width and time, but no depth. One dimension of our reality is missing.
What happens if we remove the fourth dimension? Here we have a photograph. A photo has height and width, but no tim ...
See also:Reality, Reality - Simple reality, Reality - Phenomenological reality, Reality - Truth, Reality - Fact, Reality - Axiom, Reality - What reality might not be, Reality - Reality world views and theories of reality, Reality - Philosophical views of reality Read more here: » Reality: Encyclopedia II - Reality - Simple reality |
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| | | | | Core issues in ethics: Encyclopedia II - Reality - Truth When two or more individuals agree upon the interpretation and experience of a particular event, a consensus about an event and its experience begins to be formed. This being common to a few individuals or a larger group, then becomes the 'truth' as seen and agreed upon by a certain set of people. Thus one particular group may have a certain set of agreed truths, while another group might have still different set of truths that have reached consensus. This lets different communities and societies have varied and extremely different notions o ...
See also:Reality, Reality - Simple reality, Reality - Phenomenological reality, Reality - Truth, Reality - Fact, Reality - Axiom, Reality - What reality might not be, Reality - Reality world views and theories of reality, Reality - Philosophical views of reality Read more here: » Reality: Encyclopedia II - Reality - Truth |
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