blog 5

How did the second contemporary issue effect your principles? Are you better able to see areas where your principles need adjusting? What adjustments need to be made? Which philosopher's position was least consistent with your own principles and why?

The second contemporary issue we dealt with was Euthanasia. The issue of euthanasia has something I have always been a little unsure about, but after recent discussion, I found that this practice would only be useful to society. I believe that euthanasia is a form of human choice and I believe that people should have the ability to decide to end their live. Only if the person is being terminally or irreversibly ill.  The issue of euthanasia doesn't affect my principles but if I had to choose a philosopher that was least consistent with my principles it would be J.Gay Williams. I do see where he is coming from, with his belief that euthanasia “goes against natural law because it violates the natural inclination to preserve life” but i do not necessarily agree with it. I feel like with his position, there is a significant extent to which his point can be taken. If we sustain life for as long as, let’s say a family wishes to continue a relatives life for many years, we will eventually have all funds towards life support for individuals who have no expectation to recover. 

Blog 4

 How did the first contemporary issue effect your principles? Did it challenge them? Were your principles helpful in working out your response to the issue? Which philosopher's position was most consistent with your own principles and why?


The first contemporary issue was  abortion.I think that people should have their right to choose because that it is their life. But when a woman is pregnant and decides to get abortion. If she wants to get an abortion, I have complete understanding with that if she has reasons why she doesn't want to have the child. And if she does it in a time where that the fetus isn't completely formed, then I believe that the woman has that choice to have an abortion. But if a woman doesn't want the child but she's already 5 months pregnant, the fetus is already formed quite a lot. I think that she should have the baby but if she doesn't want the child, she should set it up towards adoption. This issue didn't really affect my principles because I believe that everyone has a choice and to make a right choice but to also justify whether or not it is the right choice. So I think warren's principles is most consistent with mine.

Social / Moral Principles

What Social / Moral Principles do you find compelling and why? How do these principles fit with the personal principles you identified in Blog 2? Do they conflict at all? Do you think you can live according to both? How will you go about doing so? i.e. Prioritize them? Adopt specific ones for specific contexts?

The social/moral principle i find most compelling are those of John Locke. They do some what fit, in my first blog I spoke about “Being myself- Dare to be Different”. I do believe that we are all born with natural rights and its one of my responsibilities as a human to oblige by those rights when dealing with others and when dealing with myself. I also understand not everyone has the same perception of life in me and I try not to frustrate myself with contradicting views. I really don't think they conflict whats so ever, if anything I think they complement each other very nicely. I already live according to both, and even though I am not where I want to be I am still on the path. Every day I try to remind myself not to force anything, not to get angry when things don't happen my way, and I am also a believer in letting things develop the way they were meant to. Me intervening and complaining only brings in more stress and negativity. Some of the views of john Locke, specifically the part of natural rights help me keep up with the positivity I want in my life and for those around me.

Rules, I live by

What personal principles did you adhere to before entering this course and where did they come from? Were they taught to you? Did you develop them on your own? How have our readings and discussions impacted those principles? Of the principles covered which are you drawn to the most and why?



Principles I stand by before entering this course:

• Golden rule-"do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

• Think before I act- "because everything you do will impact your future."

• Learn from my failures.- "failure is a great teacher"

• Be myself- "Dare to be Different"
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 These principles were developed through my experiences. My parents taught me some of these principles when i was younger but i never followed them.  It wasn't until I got older when I started to adopt this principles. As I got older, the more things I when threw in my life and made me start to follow these principles.

After our reading assignments and class discussions, I have even a strongly bond to my principles. Existentialism had drawn to me the most because I believe that life is all about us,human beings have  the freewill and our life is a series of choices. that Existentialists believe are true and I agree with some of those too. I agree with how life is a series of choices. In life, we always have decisions to make. There are  decisions in life that require a lot of thought and people never want to make the wrong decision because they always want to pick the right path in life.