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vince chatigny-barbosa

Animals lack free moral judgment - 1 views

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  • vince chatigny-barbosa on 05 Dec 10
     
    This is a website basically supporting the argument that animals lack the free moral judgment and basically cannot exercise any rights.
  • Lauren Ganze on 06 Dec 10
     
    "However closely humans and lower animals resemble each other, human beings alone possess the capacity for free choice and the responsibility to act ethically." This is a quote from the site you bookmarked that I find is part of a good point and a good argument. You really chose a good site because it holds philosophical points instead of only opinions and facts. It doesn't really leave much room for argument, but you might want to watch out for your opponents saying things like, "Who's to say they don't have ratinoal thought?" It's sure to help you out in your debate, though.
Chrissy Le

CONS - Euthanasia - 5 views

www.buzzle.com/...os-and-cons-of-euthanasia.html

euthanasia cons pros debate morals

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  • Chrissy Le on 20 Nov 10
     
    Euthanasia is to end one's life, the purpose being, to end pain and suffering. The decision is made by the individual himself/herself or the family members if that individual is not capable to make the decision. The site I have given looks at the pros and cons of euthanasia, but my focus' are the cons. I found these arguments to be very valid and ones that I have not yet thought of.
  • mira ahmad on 23 Nov 10
     
    Chrissy! I find this link helpful because it gives clear and precise arguments that are for and against euthanasia. It's a simple and easy way to get more arguments for our subject! (They obviously need more research and depth though).
  • Catherine Delisle on 24 Nov 10
     
    This link is very helpful for both the for and against sides of euthanasia. It contains a lot of information that can be useful for both sides. The only bad aspect of this website is it's credibility.
Catherine Delisle

Non-religious arguments against Euthanasia - 3 views

www.starcourse.org/euthanasia.htm

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    • Catherine Delisle
      Catherine Delisle on 24 Nov 10
       
      This very credible web page is rich in arguments and has many clear and simple points that are very direct. There are a few points that I thought were more important than others. The first point was that assisting suicide was goes against law and public morality, which means that it is against social values. Also, they mentioned that if someone really wants to die, it may be "due to depression or misapprehension of their prognosis". Euthanasia is also irreversible. Some people can act on things while going through a tough time in their lives. Not only that, but euthenasia would create social pressures on vulnerable people. Euthenasia would also ruin relationships between elders and their children. Often, elders are seen as a burden, and with the option of euthanasia, they will feel pressured not to be a burden anymore. Lastly, the relationship between the doctor and the patient would be ruined. Patients would be afraid that they would be euthanised against their will, which is a real situation in Holland.
  • sara tsapekis on 24 Nov 10
     
    This website is straight to the point, and I like that it gives the reasons in point form, making the reading easy to understand. Many reasons given in the website are justifiable. The first reason, for example, which was that legalizing killing undermines public morality, is a very strong point.
  • sydney goldman on 30 Nov 10
     
    I think that this site is extremely easy to understand and makes some really good strong points against euthanasia that are not easily argued. it shows points from different aspects like health reasons, moral reasons, governmental reasons etc... all of these form a nice barrier that covers all of the possible argument that the other team will make.
Daryl Bambic

Purdue OWL - 0 views

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papers paper argumentative

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  • A thesis is not an announcement of the subject:
  • A thesis is not a title
  • thesis is not a statement of absolute fact:
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  • our main idea/claim/refutation/problem-solution expressed in a single sentence or a combination of sentences.
  • Try to be as specific as possible (without providing too much detail)
  • Induction is the type of reasoning that moves from specific facts to a general conclusion. When you use induction in your paper, you will state your thesis (which is actually the conclusion you have come to after looking at all the facts) and then support your thesis with the facts.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 20 May 15
       
      Replace 'facts' with reasoning and logic for a philosophy paper.  
  • general premises and move to a specific conclusion
  • syllogistic reasoning (the syllogism)
  • Major premise Minor premise Conclusion
  • relationship of the two premises lead, logically, to the conclusion.
  • If you disagree with either of these premises, the conclusion is invalid.
  • So the unstated premise is “Only rich people have plasma TVs.
  • may also call for action
  • The preacher's maxim is one of the most effective formulas to follow for argument papers: Tell what you're going to tell them (introduction). Tell them (body). Tell them what you told them (conclusion).
sara tsapekis

Do euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide violate the Hippocratic Oath? - Euthanasia... - 2 views

euthanasia.procon.org/view.answers.php

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  • Hippocratic Oath:
    • sara tsapekis
      sara tsapekis on 23 Nov 10
       
      The Hippocratic Oath is an oath taken by doctors taken for them to swear that they will practice medicine ethically.
  • I will do no harm
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      sara tsapekis on 23 Nov 10
       
      Some may say euthanasia violates the oath especially due to this sentence. Some think that euthanasia causes harm to the person because it is killing them, while others believe that in certain situations, not performing euthanasia is harming the individual.
  • sara tsapekis on 23 Nov 10
     
    This site includes text from the Hippocratic Oath and famous quotes talking about whether euthanasia violates this oath or not. The Hippocratic Oath is relevant to euthanasia because all doctors take this oath and a certain amount of them perform euthanasia. Some people think it violates the oath because of the aspects the oath contains, which opposes the whole concept of euthanasia. Of course, others think otherwise. Quotes from well known educators, lawyers etc. express their position.
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  • Daryl Bambic on 24 Nov 10
     
    Excellent site Sara.
  • mira ahmad on 24 Nov 10
     
    Sara! I like this site a lot. Firstly, I wasn't aware about the Hippocratic Oath, so I was really enlightened while reading this information. And your right, the hippocratic oath has a lot to do with euthanasia (and assisted suicide). In addition to this, clear arguments that are for and against euthanasia are in this site which help enlarge my ideas.
  • Catherine Delisle on 24 Nov 10
     
    Sara, this is a great web site that explains the justice side of euthanasia and the moral aspects of it. Doctors do go against the Hippocratic Oath, which is a great point. I wasn't aware that this oath existed, but it enlightened my idea about the justice aspect of this subject. This makes a great argument.
Gabe Miller

Philosophy, et cetera: Why Taxation Is Not Theft - 2 views

www.philosophyetc.net/...why-taxation-is-not-theft.html

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      Gabe Miller on 24 Nov 10
       
      this page is useful because it gives good reasons why taxation is not theft but it is useful for our society to flourish. people agree to pay tax when they sign a contract for a job. no one forces you to pay taxes, because you signed a contract saying that you already would.
  • Daryl Bambic on 30 Nov 10
     
    There are three excellent arguments against the resolution that taxation is theft. It is hard to read so make sure your team can see at least two of the three arguments on this page.
  • dunya darwiche on 08 Dec 10
     
    This was SOo hard to understand! But after reviewing it half a dozen times I found some really strong points and it'll really help me refute Thanks Gabe! :D
Catherine Delisle

Arguments Against Euthanasia - 2 views

www.euthanasia.com/rgumentsagainsteuthanasia.html

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      Catherine Delisle on 24 Nov 10
       
      This web site is very informative for my team and I because it explains many credible arguments against euthanasia. First of all, it explains in detail the terms "terminally ill", which is often used as a reason to help someone commit suicide. Secondly, they talk about euthanasia being a way for the government to save money. Physicians have been allowed cash bonuses if they do not provide care for patients in the United States. This means that doctors could influence patients to go through with the 'treatment' only because they get more money from it. Third point is that at one point, if we legalize euthanasia, they would be mesmerized by the idea of death and will be influenced by the outside world. The fourth and last point is that euthanasia is a rejection of the importance and value of human life. With euthanasia, no one's life is being saved. We are just taking people's lives away.
Daryl Bambic

Ion, by Plato - 0 views

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ion plato

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  • In the course of conversation the admission is elicited from Ion that his skill is restricted to Homer, and that he knows nothing of inferior poets, such as Hesiod and Archilochus;—he brightens up and is wide awake when Homer is being recited, but is apt to go to sleep at the recitations of any other poet.
  • he who knows the superior ought to know the inferior also;—he who can judge of the good speaker is able to judge of the bad.
  • and he who judges of poetry by rules of art ought to be able to judge of all poetry.'
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  • The rhapsode is not guided by rules of art,
  • s inspired by the God
  • The poet is the inspired interpreter of the God
  • some poets, like Homer, are restricted to a single theme
  • Tynnichus, are famous for a single poem;
  • rhapsode is the inspired interpreter of the poet, and for a similar reason some rhapsodes, like Ion, are the interpreters of single poets.
  • Socrates asks whether he can speak well about everything in Homer
  • 'What about things of which he has no knowledge?
  • n answers that he can interpret anything in Homer.
  • Socrates
  • omer speaks of the arts, as for example, of chariot-driving
  • will he, or will the charioteer or physician or prophet or pilot be the better judge?
  • on is compelled to admit that every man will judge of his own particular art better than the rhapsode
  • , who has no suspicion of the irony of Socrates,
  • jest and earnest,
  • elements of a true theory of poetry are contained in the notion that the poet is inspired
  • Genius i
  • unconscious, or spontaneous, or a gift of nature:
  • They are sacred persons, 'winged and holy things' who have a touch of madness in their composition (Phaedr.),
  • reated with every sort of respect
  • The rhapsode belongs to the realm of imitation and of opinion: he professes to have all knowledge, which is derived by him from Homer, just as the sophist professes to have all wisdom, which is contained in his art of rhetoric.
  • he cannot explain the nature of his own art; his great memory contrasts with his inability to follow the steps of the argument
  • old quarrel between philosophy and poetry
Daryl Bambic

The Republic, by Plato - 0 views

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Plato Republic

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  • He was the greatest metaphysical genius whom the world has seen; and in him, more than in any other ancient thinker, the germs of future knowledge are contained. The sciences of logic and psychology, which have supplied so many instruments of thought to after-ages, are based upon the analyses of Socrates and Plato
  • The principles of definition, the law of contradiction, the fallacy of arguing in a circle, the distinction between the essence and accidents of a thing or notion, between means and ends, between causes and conditions; also the division of the mind into the rational, concupiscent, and irascible elements, or of pleasures and desires into necessary and unnecessary—these and other great forms of thought are all of them to be found in the Republic, and were probably first invented by Plato.
  • The argument of the Republic is the search after Justice
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  • The first care of the rulers is to be education
  • conception of a higher State, in which 'no man calls anything his own
  • 'marrying nor giving in marriage,
  • 'kings are philosophers' and 'philosophers are kings;
  • Daryl Bambic on 06 Feb 12
     
    The e-version of Plato's Republic. 
Daryl Bambic

Philosophy News | 5 Reasons Why I Love Philosophy - 0 views

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philosophy news

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  • Privacy
  • Philosophy teaches us to think about, contemplate, and clearly express the fundamental concepts of life. It explicitly identifies ideas that we have been thinking and living all along.
  • Philosophy begins in wonder and wonder bears fruit when it results in philosophical analysis
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  • life is not simple and philosophy helps both unpack the complexity and provide a way through it. Just reading about the problem of universals and seeing the different philosophical views about it throughout history has given me a greater appreciation for what it means to exist
  • do not get too comfortable with simple answers.
  • To the theist, God is ultimate reality and His nature and commands ought to be a fundamental consideration in how she makes decisions
  • Civil and criminal law rely heavily upon what someone knows and how this affected their actions
  • (logic) is essential to interacting with our own and other’s ideas. Reasoning properly is an example of logic in action
  • Morality is a daily concern in lif
  • s highly pragmatic when applied properly.
  • The reasoning and analytical abilities acquired from analyzing complex ideas and arguments are essential in a number of other of fields.
  • strong verbal and writing skills
  • is not an intellectual magic wand
  • carefully
  • humility and tentativeness,
  • seeks truth,
  • r self-deception
  • Daryl Bambic on 26 Jan 14
     
    "Privacy"
Daryl Bambic

Aristotle and the Good Life - 0 views

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aristotle happiness

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  • But it doesn’t follow that since his ideas on some things were silly, his ideas on all things were silly
  • reason a central place in human life
  • Money is clearly only a means to an end, therefore it can’t be the main good
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  • But what really determines the quality of our lives is not our circumstances themselves but what we make of them
  • Success (or honour) can’t be the main good either, since (a) it’s too dependent on other people and the whims of fortune,
  • Pleasure is certainly not the main good,
  • lives that are fit only for cattle
  • He recognises three types of relationships: the useful, the pleasant and the ones based on mutual admiration.
  • main good for a human being is reason, since it is the characteristic human capacity, the one we don’t share with other animals.
  • theoretical (concerning the contemplation of unchangeable truths)
  • ractical
  • intellectual virtues
  • virtues of character
  • Excess and deficiency
  • unction argument
  • erything in the universe had a purpose
  • essential nature of a thing or creature: just like the purpose of an acorn was to develop into an oak tree, that of human beings was to develop their unique human capacities, the most important of which was the ability to reason
  • in true Aristotelian spirit, is a mean between ‘anything goes’ and a totally prescriptiv
Kelsey Adams

Visual of how many animals are killed per year under cruel measures - 1 views

www.animalsuffering.com/animal-cruelty.php

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  • Kelsey Adams on 23 Nov 10
     
    This website gives an amazing visual as to how many animals are killed per year using awful and inhumane measures.
  • Daryl Bambic on 24 Nov 10
     
    Stay away from the sensational, as tempting as it seems, and build RATIONAL arguments.
  • Daryl Bambic on 30 Nov 10
     
    Why do you want or even need visual? That will not help build any rational arugment.
Kelsey Adams

The Case for Animal Rights by Tom Regan - 2 views

www.animal-rights-library.com/...regan03.htm

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  • Kelsey Adams on 23 Nov 10
     
    This is an actual case which demonstrated the various points as to why the use of animals as a resource is wrong. Tom Reagan explains that the people who are against the right of animals believe that their only purpose in our world is to be eaten, surgically manipulated and to be exploited for sport or money. It even sounds awful to say such a thing.
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  • Daryl Bambic on 24 Nov 10
     
    Where is this from? This is a file on the web but who publishes it and who is Tom Regan?
  • Kelsey Adams on 30 Nov 10
     
    Tom Regan is an American philosopher who specializes in animal rights theory. He teaches at North Carolina State University. He is the author of numerous books on the philosophy of animal rights, including The Case for Animal Rights. His studies, books and cases have significantly influenced the modern animal liberation movement.
  • Kelsey Adams on 01 Dec 10
     
    I was not able to sticky note the page but here are some parts i would have highlighted: Singer and Frey both offer arguments that are motivated by utilitarian concerns Regan offers his own Rights View as an adequate moral theory: to respect the rights of an individual is to treat that individual as if she was inherently valuable rather than merely useful (improvement on utilitarianism) Nothing less than the abolition of using animals as food, in science, and in industry is morally acceptable according to Regan
  • Kelsey Adams on 01 Dec 10
Mason Brenhouse

Taxation is Theft Because it's Involuntary and Permanently Denies People their Property... - 1 views

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taxation theft is philosophy

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  • Taxation is theft because it is the use of aggression to deny another person their property. It doesn’t matter what their property is to be used for or what complicated arguments are made to justify it. Taxation is involuntary and it results in a person’s property being permanently taken. This is all that is necessary for our thesis to be proven.
  • Yet others will claim that taxes are payment for those services government provides. What if one doesn’t want those services? What if they are substandard? There are no answers to these questions because these alleged services are provided involuntarily. You can hardly call that a voluntary arrangement.
  • Taxation is theft because it involves a first use of violence in order to permanently acquire someone else’s property. State apologists may make excuses or wild conjecture in a vain attempt to justify this theft. But the fact remains that is theft. The only valid way to acquire someone else’s property is through voluntary interaction. Taxation is involuntary.
  • Mason Brenhouse on 26 Nov 10
     
    This is an article that has several points as to why taxation is theft. Firstly, taxation is theft because it is the use of aggression to deny another person their property.This is because it involves the use of violence in order to permanently acquire someone else's property. As we know, taxes are used in order to give certain services to citizens. However, what if these citizens do not want these services? This is why taxation is considered theft. 
  • Ali Goldman on 08 Dec 10
     
    I think that this is a very good website because it shows that taxation is theft because it is taking away someones property. I also like the point that shows how it uses violence and how some people do not want the services that are provided from paying taxes.
Mason Brenhouse

What is Wrong with Inheritance Taxation? | Newsflavor - 0 views

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cons taxation wrong philosophy

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  • Some people think that inheritance taxes are the right way to redistribute wealth. But does it really do that? In effect, they just provide governments with more money to squander. If they really should redistribute wealth, they should be excluded from the normal government income and allocated in a special fund earmarked for the purpose. Some people think that inheritance taxes are downright wrong; taking away already taxed and hard earned money from people who earned it.
  • What happens when you tax an inheritance? Applying British standards, 50 percent of the inheritance gets lost to the government coffers. If this money is sitting in a savings account or in a safe, the fact might be annoying to the heir, but hardly life threatening to anyone. If the money on the other hand is sitting in a company providing work to people, losing half the money could mean the end of the company. This second case in fact doesn’t redistribute wealth, it kills it
  • Mason Brenhouse on 01 Dec 10
     
    According to this article the taxation of inheritance is actually an ineffective and actually steals hard earned money from the people who actually went out and earned it. It goes on to say that relatively 50% of inheritance is actually lost to the government. It speaks about working capitol which is money that is actively contributing to the economy and dead capital which is money that is lying dormant somewhere being saved. 
  • Daryl Bambic on 03 Dec 10
     
    This is a very interesting article but make sure to use it as a secondary point and not your main argument.
sara tsapekis

Murder case-Reena Virk - 1 views

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  • sara tsapekis on 06 Dec 10
     
    This site is about the murder of Reena Virk and the reason she was murdered. I chose a murder case to show the difference between the intentions of a murder and the intentions of a euthanasia case. I also chose it to emphasize why euthanasia should not be considered as murder. In this case, the girl was murdered because she was brown in a predominantly white society and because she was overweight. In other words, she didn't fit in. Therefore, the intentions were to harm and kill the individual.
  • Lauren Ganze on 06 Dec 10
     
    From what I've read on this site, it's a good way to prove that euthanasia is not murder - and it can definetely help in making your point clear. However, you might want to make sure you don't accidentally start talking about racism and sexism. Other than that, it's a good argument in the making.
vince chatigny-barbosa

Why animals have no rights - 0 views

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  • vince chatigny-barbosa on 19 Nov 10
     
    Great video with a strong argument on why animals have no rights.
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