Discussion on Whether Society Can Function Without Respect

Respect is a fundamental virtue in the world. Respect for each other will avert any misunderstanding between individuals or communities. In the family, there are various reasons as to why children should strive to respect their [...]

Respect plays a role in everyone's everyday life. When we go to school we should show respect to all people. When we go home we should show respect to our parents and siblings. We should show respect to all of our family members [...]

Nearly anything will earn you respect in the eyes of someone. But only certain things will earn you respect in the eyes of those who are respected. It’s that simple. So, true respect is not earned of injuring oneself or breaking [...]

Philippe Bourgois’ In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio is a well-written ethnographic research book that has been set to have an in-depth look into the lives of a micro-society in East Harlem’s neighborhood that is [...]

Creating a desire to respect the law is a vital step to building a civilised community. In order for the laws created by the government to be respectable, they must be aligned with our natural laws. St. Thomas Aquinas’ theory of [...]

When someone you know has dementia, it's easy to focus on the dementia instead of the individual. But it's important to remember that someone with dementia is still a unique and valuable person, just like anyone else. When [...]

“It is not politically correct to talk about white, poor people,” advised a senior official of Solidarity, a prominent South African trade union, during a visit of President Jacob Zuma to the impoverished white community of [...]

The view that David Lurie is “not a bad man but not good either” is a reduction of a provocative character. Disgrace explores compelling political issues ranging from post-Apartheid South Africa to moral paternalism, and David’s [...]

It is universally accepted that, at the age of fifty-two, men should be courting women of similar ages. However, David Lurie, the protagonist of J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, does not comply with these standards. He is [...]