Proslavery Argument Analysis

Rachel backs his ethical approval of euthanasia with two strong arguments. His first argument is the “Utilitarian version of the argument” (Rachels, RIght Thing To Do, 350). This basic claim is that “any action or social policy is morally right if it serves to increase the amount of happiness in the world or to decrease the amount of misery” (Rachels, RTD, 350). Since those who would be euthanized would become relieved of their unpreventable and agonizing pain (i.e. misery) euthanasia would be morally right. His second argument is that as long as it is in everyone’s best interest, euthanizing a person is a morally acceptable act (Rachels, RTD, 352).

If everything's an argument, then that means the whole book and title could be an argument. Everything, indeed, is an argument. Before I opened this chubby book, I doubted the title. I thought: “How can everything be an argument? That would mean our days would be spent constantly arguing--mentally or verbally.” However, now I realize that everything’s an argument, but that does not necessarily mean everyone has to argue with everything. As the authors of Everything’s an Argument put it: “arguments are all around us, in every medium, in everything we do,”(5). Arguments are not just in writing but in every form of literature whether that be a movie, play, or essay.

From the time of the American Revolution in 1776, to the year 1852, there has been many causes to the opposition to slavery. Some have shown the support for increased opposition while others have shown to not support this opposition. This has caused many disputes about who is in the right. There is plenty of evidence between the two groups which were either supporting the opposition to slavery or they were not supporting the opposition. Three causes exist in support of and against this opposition: Social Darwinism, increased tolerance, and the need to unite the nation. These three of the many causes for the growing opposition to slavery show the rift in ideals in the United States.

What I feel I did well on this argumentative essay was my research. I had many sources that provided me with facts and statistics and they helped me to decide what side I was on. There were many sources that I did not use but that I had read through. What I struggled with was commentary. I feel that the commentary in my argumentative essay was not very strong. I am able to use discussion and debate in the future to explore/research a topic by choosing a topic and then doing research on both sides so that I can could a side to align with. Some important factors to consider while researchin are: website credibility,

Slavery was a problem that plagued the United States for years; human beings were used and treated like property in this shadowy time in American history. Between the years 1848 and 1861 however, a great debate arose throughout the nation. Americans across the country began to debate slavery and its moralistic and economic factors, and people everywhere took their stance on this issue. Both factors expanded and built up to useful arguments. The North used morality and the South argued economics to justify slavery and feared Abraham Lincoln’s election. Morality dominated theses debates over slavery during the period but both arguments were expressed and contested while Abraham Lincoln sparked the secession of the Deep South.

Philosophers are on a constant struggle to determine if free-will is real or an illusion. Joshua Knobe believes we will do a better job addressing philosophical questions if we “can arrive at a better understanding of the way our own minds work” and free-will is a very important part of our brain, if it were to exist (Experiments in Philosophy, Pg.3). Some philosophers may argue that if free will is an illusion “you couldn’t come up with a philosophical stance on […] new information and act on it, because that implies choice and choice is a product of free will” (If scientists unequivocally proved free will was an illusion, how would society change, if at all?, Pg. 1). So to my wonder, would there be philosophical thinking without free will?

The rivalry between students who believe they should be able to use their cell phones in class and teachers who believe them to be disrespectful has caused a ripple effect that now bleeds through many classrooms roaring its controversial head. And here we are stuck in an ongoing battle seldom won by students. The position that students should not be able to misuse their cell phones in a classroom setting is one held by the author of “Today 's Lesson: Life in the Classroom Before Cellphones” Louise Katz, who believes that “those halcyon days” were over (Katz). Likewise, Zoya Kahn, the author of “Why Cell Phones Do Not Belong In The Classroom” has a similar stance on the topic, Kahn states that “it is in everyone’s interest for instructors to

From the American Revolution to the 13th Amendment, the institution of slavery has been a major issue in the United States. Many individuals and groups fought relentlessly against slavery, speaking out about the evils of slavery and what threats it poses to the preservation of the Union. The government also attempted to deal with slavery, but not all attempts were successful. Since slaves were the backbone of the South’s economy, compromise on slavery was very difficult. This is a result of southern representatives in the federal government fighting very persistently against abolitionists. The continual debate over the institution of slavery, part of the debate over states’ rights versus the federal government’s power, was one of the factors

The main issue in America politics during the years of the late 1840 's to the late 1870 's was slavery. Southerners wanted to keep the tradition of slave labor alive, and were justifying slavery in any way possible. Slavery was an important economic phenomenon in the history of United States. It was a worthwhile economic aspect especially for those that were in power. Studies have been carried to establish this fact. It is approximated that a close to 4million slaves with an attached approximated value of between 3.1and 3.6 lived in the US during the period that was just before the civil war. Slavery was an important institution as masters drew from it

In Ben Robert-Smith’s opinion piece published in the Herald Sun on the 16th of January, 2017 “We Are One but We Are Many”, Robert- Smith addresses he Addresses the Australian public with the argument that is changing the date of Australia day from January 26th. He argues that the date should remain the same but should be undertaken in a manner that is “inclusive and respectful” of other Australian’s interpretation of the day. Comparatively, in Kevin V. Russell’s Letter to the Editor he presents the argument from an alternate perspective. Russell believes that the day should be changed to a day “all Australian’s can acknowledge” and that “Australia day has outlived its usefulness”. Russell’s argument is delivered in a rather blunt and passive

As we all know slavery was a vital part of life in the South and Virginia in the 1800s. Plantation owners and farmers who owned slaves, this was a status symbol in this time. To society, slavery was a way to control a race which meant that African Americans would not be able to rebel because they would be too busy giving service to their higher beings or “masters”. Despite this control, slaves were still allowed their own churches and schools but were guarded by armed guards to make

Tring to understand the events that happened, do to a religion stand point can become complex and extremely confusing. Dr. James Hutson, a Historian and chief in the Manuscript Division at the library of congress, discusses what rights are and what “a right” means. Dr. Hutson work and findings lead him to believe that giving ‘a right’ a definition was not logical but rather ‘a right’ was divided in to different categories. Dr. Hutson also talks about the founding father of the United States, which he says, had their actions greatly influenced by their believes and faiths. The right of being educated, or rather even having the right of education didn’t mean that the education was not influenced by the church. The church getting involved in the learning of masses was not something new but one example of it in the united states was the collage text books. The collage text books

Don Marquis, a theorist on abortion, debated that abortion was morally wrong and that anti-abortionists should consider fetuses’ human beings (Jones & Kooistra, 2011).

In modern society, a lot of situations are not caused by free will like everyone likes to believe they have, but rather as a result of different preexisting events. These deterministic events are said to be a sequential cause as opposed to Rousseau 's dubbed "first cause"1 in which the cause of the event is not reliant on an external event. These sequential events are a prime example of the deterministic viewpoint on the free will debate, forming the angle that most situations are caused by preexisting forces, and most everything is just predetermined and the "free" will choices we do get are still influenced by these forces or new forces. Based on this assumption that free will doesn’t exist in its truest meaning of the word, Pereboom sets out to prove that the losses of