Analysis Of Adultery

Breaking the Blessed Union: A Philosophical Analysis of Adultery
Ma. Ericka B. Micabalo
I. Background of the Study
In this world, to maintain orderliness people have rules for everyone to follow. The Ten Commandments have been considered as universal laws and as ethical beings, we believe that we must follow these rules. However, our world today, often disregards and continuously disobeys these commandments. Among the Ten Commandments, the author would be focusing on the sixth commandment which is "Thou shall not commit adultery." Today 's society would certainly agree that cheating on your spouse is an immoral act. However, such occurrence still happens every day. After the victim of the said act has figured out that his spouse is having

The writer 's main aim of writing this paper is to present coherent arguments regarding adultery and in what manner may people understand this practice. This paper is constructed to give a better enlightenment with regards to the questions, How can the involved people with the adulterer or the adulterer himself be affected in both positive and negative ways? Second, what are the compelling forces that provoke a person to this unethical practice and lastly, what philosophical explanations exist that explains this phenomenon? To make it more particular, the favorable and inimical implications of adultery will be exposed in the first part of the paper. Furthermore, the latter part of the author 's work desires to unveil the underlying philosophical principles or beliefs that were interlinked with

All children trust their parents very much. However, their trust if ever was broken, would cause them a lot of pain. There are instances where it is not the partner who has caught their husband cheating. It is their child who does, and with the intention of not wanting to hurt their parent and ruin their relationship, they kept it within themselves. The spouse would not be the only one betrayed but as well the child. Cases exist wherein adultery results to the woman being pregnant. They then choose to abort the child or give the child away before causing strife within people around them. "This is a common result among married women with extramarital paternity." They may also choose to keep the true identity of the father and after having another man raise them, they would learn of the information that the man who has been considered as the father of the child was never really theirs. This could as well lead the child to have depression and negative relationship with other people. And those were only few instances where in adultery negatively affects