"Morals" is a word that is thrown around carelessly these days. According to adults, a girl that wears a short skirt has no morals, and according to most teenagers they are morally wronged if they are not allowed to go out on a school night. Today morals have turned into an adjective that can be used in any sentence at any time. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines morals as "conforming to a standard of right behavior." …
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…truly choose to understand what his point is. Work Cited Burger, A.J. "The Ethics of Belief: Essays by William Kingdon Clifford, William James and A.J. Burger". Personal web page. [C 2001] < http://ajburger.homestead.com/files/book/html> James, William The Will to Believe and Other Essays Popular Philosophy. Dover Publications: New York, 1956 Schlecht, Ludwig F. "Mysticism and Meliorism: the Integrated Self of William James." Philosophical Forum. Fall 2001, Vol. 32 Issue 3, pg. 253 - 264