Children, Debts, Obligations, and Sommers.
Date Submitted: 04/19/2003 02:29:00
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 4 pages (1080 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 4 pages (1080 words)
Suppose that your mother is 80 years old and cannot perform simple tasks that are necessary for day to day life. She is not capable of preparing food, going to the bathroom unassisted, or even walking up the stairs. She lives her days out in a nursing home, where she attended to by nurses and staff members - rarely hearing from her own family. You, on the other hand, are in the prime of your life. …
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…are of a filial nature. One is indebt to their parents out of not only love but duty in their adult years. This is different from the Kantian and utilitarian views of equal pull - that an individual is equally attracted to an ethical pull. The roles that each person has within a society help to give weight to certain moral bearings over others.
Works Cited Sommers, Christiana Hoff. "Filial Morality." Sommers and Sommers 738 - 749
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