Essays on Human Being

The Rerum Novarum is an encyclical issued in the year 1891 by Pope Leo XIII. It is considered to be an open letter to all the Catholic bishops addressing the issues of working class people. Pope Leo wrote the encyclical in response to all the social conflicts that had led to socialism due to the wake of industrialization. According to Pope Leo, the role of the State was to endorse social justice by protecting people’s rights while the role of the church was to speak out on matters regarding social issues and teach acceptable social principles while ensuring Continue reading...

Definition

Theorists have for a long time tried to come up with a definition of a human being. Since time immemorial, there have been attempts aimed at looking into detail as to what a human being is and the characteristics that define this ‘being.’ Various definitions have come up with the aim of bringing into the light the aspect of human being. In this paper, I seek to assert that a human being is a societal construction of an individual who satisfies all the characteristics of a human being as described by the society and one who has the capacity Continue reading...

Introduction

Rossum's Universal Robots is a play written by Karel Capek's in 1921. The play introduces us to the world of robots that are machine, which acts like human beings. The play depicts that although robots will initially be beneficial to people, at some point they will dominate the world and turn against people. The play exports different issues that could arise if artificial life were created.

The play starts by a young woman named Helen a representative humanitarian organization visiting a remote island to liberate a poorly oppressed robot. Helen has a feeling that robots are human beings with Continue reading...

Whether or not having the choice to get an abortion is immoral is a very important question concerning the public debate about this controversial issue. From an objective perspective, the choice of getting an abortion is immoral, regardless of whether or not the women who carry out this choice are guilty or innocent. The first important factor that must be considered is that an abortion certainly results in the death of a living entity, i.e. the human embryo. The moral status of the human embryo that is killed is the foremost point in this debate. Moreover, plenty of evidence Continue reading...

Abortion can be referred to as a procedure that terminates pregnancy which can be done through the use of medicine or through performance of a surgery. The procedure can be done legally or illegally and it is a very personal decision. However, terminating pregnancy or what is better referred to as abortion is an illegal undertaking unless done under special instructions made by a licensed health care practitioner. Those that back up abortion argue that, abortion is a right which no one should be denied or regulated by the government nor any religious entity. The proponents of abortion argue Continue reading...

Understanding a human being is a complex process that can involves understanding the nature of life. Being a human being entails making interactions with hundreds of fundamental principles that concerns the nature of life. Attempting to understand the nature of human beings is equal to making efforts to define what one is. This type of inquiry is quite controversial because a human is a curious creature. One might begin to define a human being depending on visible attributes or personalities. Even though not people are equal because of different individual and cultural variations, humans exhibit similar characteristics to animals, Continue reading...

Introduction

Friendship is one of the things in life that we cherish and take for granted at the same time. Depending on what kind of person we are talking about, a person can either treat friendship as trash or treat it as one of the best things that has happened in his or her life. This is where we see how people view friendships. The thing about friendships though this is where we see the true nature of humans and see how they act towards it, especially when faced with different situations. The human being has two sides that, I Continue reading...

Islamic Environmental Ethics

Introduction
The new technological developments increase mobility as well as comfort, but might have major harmful effects to the environment besides risking human health. The harmful effects of technological developments to the environment have resulted in what many have termed as environmental crises. The environmental crises are a threat to human beings as well as other living organisms. The existing evidence shows that the technical solutions have essentially not been resulting in outcomes that are satisfactory. Thus, it is critical for us to know how we should behave towards the environment. It is worth mentioning that, among the theoretical Continue reading...

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There are different problems that are in the world that are created by global warming. Most of the problems that are brought by the global warming factor have been with human beings for a few decades and they have developed ways of dealing with these problems. The different problems created by global warming have been clearly identified and different groups have come out strongly to search for the solutions and suggested solutions to these problems. The chief problem of global warming is the increase in temperatures in the planet due to the trapping of the carbon dioxide gas. Scientists Continue reading...

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Salvation Death Repentance
Every religious book or scripture is a guide to the human being to follow the proper path. What is the proper path then? It is a path, which leads the person towards the Ultimate Truth, the path that breaks the chain between a soul and a body. This path leads us toward the phase of non-duality. The attainment of this phase is possible only after leaving the body and the purification of the soul. The purification of the soul is possible through good deeds, virtues and your deep faith in God and Jesus Christ. All religious Continue reading...

The issue of abortion is definitely multivalued. It has demographic sense, as well as political and social importance, and it has a very important ethical aspect. Topicality of the problem in discussing abortion persists despite the fact that it continues for many centuries. Historically, the attitude of doctors to abortion is one of the first and fundamental ethical and medical issues that are still relevant today. This is explained by the fact that the problem of abortion unites the relationship between people at the level of moral, legal, social, political, religious, and scientific consciousness.
Abortion is defined as termination Continue reading...

Emotions are mental states than take place within the mind of an organism. A human being according to various gurus in psychology is just but an advanced animal. The human being can tell good things from bad ones. Likewise, the human body can tell good feelings from the distasteful emotions. Such feelings as joy, anger and sadness can occur within a person’s psychological borders within a small span of time as long as such an individual is subjected to situations that cause such changes. The role of emotions has been successfully explained by a number of social scientists Continue reading...

It is true that God is the creator of human beings. He gives life to the human beings by making them be conceived and be born. The normal process is known to involve biological processes as a result of the fertilization of the ovum by a sperm. However, it is not obvious that every person will be fertile. To solve the problem of sterility among people who would wish to have children, human cloning has become an option (Pros and Cons of Human Cloning – HRF, 2013).It is a form of external fertilization.
One of the merits of human Continue reading...

Introduction

Is there a life after death? This is one of the questions that most people in the world have been asking themselves for years. The survival of consciousness after death is a very complex situation for most people in the world. This is the reason why it has been discussed by many philosophers as well as other people in the world. According to the researches that have been conducted by the scientist is that, they believe that the consciousness and the mind are connected in that the they functioning of how the brain works even after death (Stanislav Grof & Continue reading...

Gender issues are important aspects of social science. It is through the understanding of the different issues concerning the differences in gender roles that we are able to accept the modern world role of each gender. It is therefore, quite important to develop an understanding of how the differing gender roles in the society evolved and how they have been subsequently carried on over the centuries as well as over the decades. An understanding of the role of each gender in the hunting and gatherers as well as on the agriculturally based stages of human beings evolution is an Continue reading...

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Hypothesis 1: Abortion is immoral
In “On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion,” (1973), Mary Warren supports an extremely liberal interpretation of abortion, wherein the act of feticide is allowable at all stages of the pregnancy and under all instances. Herein, Warren places these initial claims; one, that murdering innocent humans is wrong and two, “fetuses” are considered as “innocent human beings.” Using logical deduction, Warren deduces that fetuses are “innocent human beings.” Warren places an emphasis on the term “human being” as a “full-fledged member of the moral community.” To Warren, the “moral community” is regarded Continue reading...

INTRODUCTION:

The stem cell research has been debated ever since the birth of it. However, the categorization of the stem cell research has been defined in a wrong manner. Moreover, the media is sensationalizing the topic. This has resulted in a wrong notion that all stem cell research is unethical. This is a wrong notion of the research because there are two types of stem cell research. The adult stem cell research is ethical than the embryonic stem cell research.
Adult stem cell research refers to the usage of matured cells from mature adult human being without killing the host. Continue reading...

Human beings (Homo sapiens) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) belong in the same order of primates and the Hominidae family. This is because they have common characteristics that lead them to be grouped together in this order.
A number of similar biological aspects make human and chimpanzees to be grouped together. Both chimpanzees and humans have highly flexible limbs that end up with five fingers. These limbs for both limbs and hind limbs enable this order of animals to perform various activities such as climbing trees and the use of tools. Human beings and chimpanzees have flexible shoulders and joints Continue reading...

Introduction

Manderville argues that “private vices” (or self-interest) leads to “publick benefits” (such as social structures like language, law and markets). This is because thinkers like Manderville posit that the best approach for running a society is to create and maintain a Capitalist structure where all members commercialize their effort and make the best of it in terms of profiting from their activities. This paper posits that the benefit of such a commercial society is that it enables people to turn their selfish and unsociable passion into good and positive things. The paper will evaluate this thesis in the light Continue reading...

Introduction

In the contemporary society, on average, a normal person lives 99.9 percent of their lives in devoid of the actual conscious contact that is sensed with the magnificent nature. Most people spend most their times indoors. For instance, people spend almost 95 percent indoors without time to explore the beautiful nature provided for human beings. In most cases, people build relationships, but diverted from nature. The disconnection from nature deludes human beings from thinking that disconnecting with the nature does not negatively affect the daily life existence. It is because even if people do not explore the nature, they Continue reading...

Artificial intelligence is the essence of the use of software that is programmed to perform tasks that would have been performed by human being. There has been advancement in technological usage in the current world. According to the scientists if this continues untamed it would in the end pose a threat to the human intelligence. Although the human mind functions differently with that of a robot, scientists have pointed the fear of a takeover by robots.
Arguably, the whole idea of artificial intelligence is spurred by scientific fiction in which it tries to come out and program software that Continue reading...

The human development solely depends on the results of the diverse stages that occur in a human being. These stages start from the conception of a newborn until the day of death. Biological and sociological inheritance faced by an individual determines these stages of development. From the child’s conception to the death, the human being undergoes various stages to address and portray clear effects of the aging. The extended childhood, rapid maturity, gradually declining mental function and a post-productive period characterizes the development and growth in human. Various advancements occur that characterize these stages. For example, the proper Continue reading...

Spiritual Gifts are the ultimate gifts for Christian believers. There is a unvarying religious debate going on the existence of spiritual gifts. The debate is basically on the consistency of these (charismatic) gifts. Without God’s grace, human being is incomplete. Rather human life itself is a precious gift given by the Almighty. And this gift (human life) is given to mankind to attain a certain duty on the earth. These duties are like the mission. Spiritual gifts are the source of inspiration from Almighty Lord to human being to live a life with the mission. The gifts signify Continue reading...

Applied behaviour analysis and animal behaviour

According to (Bekoff, 2013), behaviour analysis refers to a scientific approach that helps an individual to understand why animal and people do and behave the way they do. After studying behaviour analysis an individual develops the capacity to understand how both human beings as well as animal’s behaviours are affected by the various events that take place. This includes the event that are there in their physical and their social environments. Teacher’s researchers and parents make use of behaviour analysis to tell how the physical and social environment impacts on behaviour change.
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Philosophy

Every creature is fundamentally based on two principles that elaborate its being, which is existence and essence. All living beings, God excluded, require both principles that explain the definite existence of individual thing. Each principle is considered dissimilar from the other, but this difference is not merely logical but it is a real one. Aristotle, Plato and St. Thomas Aquinas take the stand on explaining the essence. Both Plato and Aristotle simply explain essence as “the form” (Giles,& Michael, p.40). However, Aquinas argued that if the essence was merely the considerable form, then matter cannot be considered as essence Continue reading...

One of the most complicated questions to answer in human behaviour is how a person becomes who he or she is. In this context, the main problem is in identifying the difference between inborn inclinations of an individual and subsequent influence of the surrounding environment of living. From one point scientists argue that the answer to who we are is in our genes and DNA chains, and we cannot go beyond what our DNA has programmed us to be capable of. From another point of view, we are what are made by totality of factors. Among these factors are Continue reading...

It is shared with primates, uniquely human and genius homoAll shared have a form of communication; primates actually are the species that look like man for example chimpanzees and gorillas. They use symbols to communicate. The Japanese macaques had the ability to pass knowledge for example in communication, learning tricks for survival among others. 2. Fire.
It is used and shared with all hominines, Shared with Genus Homo and Uniquely Human. Primates have a flat face and four limbs and a given dental formulae in relation to the factor; fire, the used fire to get warm for example the Continue reading...

The issue of abortion is a topical concern of almost every human society across the world. At a certain point in history, people decided to be in opposition to it. However, there also was time when society agreed to practice it. As far as this problem is concerned, medical students and professionals get confused when making their own decision regarding abortion. Throughout the history, people have been looking for answers as to whether aborting a conceived child is right or wrong.
Many researchers, ethical advisors, philosophers, and lawmakers, as well as the other people look at different perspectives – considering Continue reading...

Machines have always been part of humanity. It has separated us from the other forms of life on earth. Through it we have become the dominant species of the planet and with it, our lives have become easier. It is now easier to communicate with anyone, almost anywhere around the world, it is now easier to get someplace without exerting an overabundant amount of effort. As time went by, technology started evolving to meet even greater demands. One of these demands appears in economics.
People wanted more than what the industry could provide. Human labor was becoming insufficient to Continue reading...

Mark Twain once wrote, “I am not interested to know whether Vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't. [] The pains which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity towards it” (Twain 26).
Most people find themselves in a dilemma when confronted with the subject of animal testing in research. Although many people support animal testing for the sake of basic research, and biomedical research, others believe that forcing animals to suffer distress, fear, and pain, regardless of the purpose or the outcome, is unethical. There is evidence that suggests that Continue reading...

Values Systems in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Chapter 16: An Unlikely Donor

Background
This case study that is “An Unlikely Donor” is regarding the problem of organ selling that is widespread amongst the poor people. Organ selling is a prevalent practice in which an individual sells his or her organ in exchange of the money or other reasons. Due to poverty and other financial and economic issues the practice of organ selling is quite common in developing and under developed countries
This case study deals with the issue of organ selling. The nurse, Carole Bennet who was working in a private hospital in London while Continue reading...

Duality and free will

Religions have long taught about the relationship between the body and soul. The Hinduism religion that is observed in a substantial part of Asia teaches that the soul and the body are two independent things. It is for this reason that they teach their followers about the immortality of the soul and the mortal nature of the human body. The religions, especially the ancient Asian religions teach that the soul of an individual will wander in space after the death of the body until it finds another human body. They further explain that the soul in a baby that Continue reading...

Free will is about acting according to one’s choice or reason. Philosophers hold various theories about the concept of free will and the moral responsibility attached to it. Galen Strawson has a pessimist stand towards the concept of free will that one behaves or acts in a certain way because of how one is made. Therefore, one cannot be held morally responsible for the actions. However there is an inner consciousness in all human beings which differentiates them from other living beings, and this consciousness convicts one what to do and what not to do. Strawson’s argument Continue reading...

Introduction

Developmental Psychology is a branch of psychology which studies how the human being changes over a life span (McLeod, 2012). It not just focuses on the physical development but also on social, emotional and personality development throughout the lifetime of a human being. The objective of this paper is to understand developmental psychology, its benefits and applications in life. This paper is divided into four sections. The first section includes the introduction, history and goals of developmental psychology. The second section discusses the benefits of developmental psychology. The third section talks about the application of developmental psychology in life. Continue reading...

Ethics is defined as the accepted rule of conduct within a certain organization. It is a social code of behavior which governs a certain organization or members of a certain group or community. The associations can be a business organization, medical institution or a religious organization. Ethics should be distinguished from morality. Morality is defined as the conduct or the behavior of an individual. On the other hand, ethics is the accepted behavior of a group of people. For example, there were different ethical organizations which have different rules. These organizations include the church, the government, a business organization Continue reading...

The debate over abortion has been raging for quite some time in our culture. In recent times, one observes that abortions have become commonplace. Most supporters primarily argue with respect to autonomy and women’s rights with respect to abortion. On the other hand, the pro-life supporters argue with the fact that the act of abortion results in the killing of a fetus. Since the act of killing is morally and ethically despicable, pro-life supporters use this argument as a foundation. On a moral basis too, Kantian ethics renders abortion as an immoral act for a number of different Continue reading...

Assignment 2

Question 1
In “Brideshead Revisited”, the character Rex Mottram is for the larger part of the story in a relationship with Julia. Rex appears to very deeply in love with Julia and is also a great friend to other characters including Sebastian, Boy and Charles, who he, for example, helps with their jail situation. He plans to marry Julia and in fact does so, but he maintains an illicit affair with Brenda. Julia confronts him, but he cannot understand why she is so upset. Julia is a devout Christian and tries to put a stop to Rex antics including Continue reading...

In this paper, I will discuss the present-at-hand and the ready-at-hand in Heidegger’s philosophy. Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) is a German philosopher who is often thought of in terms of the Existentialist movement in Continental philosophical tradition, but who did not prefer to be classified as an existentialist (McBride 131). Heidegger concerns himself with the deep metaphysical question of being in his book Being and Time — a job he never completed in his lifetime (Blattner 9). Heidegger has an ambitious project in his book — that is fundamentally to investigate being, a project he feels has been forgotten by philosophers ( Continue reading...

The Native Americans that can be found in North America have their myths explaining how they were created and the reason as to why they occupy certain regions in America. Moreover, these myths are seen to be very different from each other and have different concepts and ideologies. The reason as to why there is no unified body associated with the mythologies is due to the different tribal groups that make up the Native Americans (Birrell, 1993). The tribes have their own creation stories in relation to how the world came into being, the appearance of people, and the Continue reading...

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Introduction
The Ten Commandments is a set of guidelines given by God to Moses almost 3 millennia ago, and they are still considered to be binding today on us. These commandments were given from Mount Sinai escorted by earthquakes, blasts and smoke which emphasizes the significance of these Commandments. Ten Commandments also known as Decalogue relates to worship acts and to worship One God, ethics, prohibitions from blasphemy, murder of another human being, idolatry, adultery and dishonesty among human beings. The Ten Commandments follow the spiritual law of human nature and Continue reading...