Muammar alGaddafi

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Colonel Muammar

Gaddafi

Libyan Politician

Revolutionary dictator

Ruling Libya f or 42 years

Inspired by Gamal Abdel Nasser

(Egypts then president)

Invented Jamahiriya system which was

basically a military dictatorship

He launched cultural revolution in

Libya by removing all foreigninfluences.

Impr oved standard of living in Libya,

Africa through his revolution

He Kills people who disagrees with him

His ultimate goal is to erase Israel


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Early Life

He was born in sirte

He was fr om the peasant family tree

He recieved his traditional religious education

Expelled fr om his highschool in sheba because of his high political activism

After graduating with a degree he joined the army in Benghazi, Libya

Pursued further studies in Europe

Continued Army training in the United Kingdom

Started a small secretive military group that planned tooverthrow Libyan

monarchy


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Rise to

power

September 1969 when King Idris washospitalized in Turkey Gaddafi led a group of his

military officers to house arrest the new crowned

king who was the kings nephew thus abolishing

monarchy and proclaiming Libyan Arab Republic


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Gaddafi as a Dictator

Libya as a country has become a violent land because Libyan citizens are

threatened by theirown leader.

There are gangs who are shooting opposes with dangerous weapons.

He tried to merge/unite all African countries by creating the Islamic Legion

as a tool to unify and Arabize the region.

Gaddafi can be considered as a selfish leader because his own words

states that he wont get down from power while he is alive and calls his

revolution as Libyan Arab Republic .

He doesnt allow the people of Libya to vote democratically and thus

staying in power forever.


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Gaddafi as a Dictator (Co

nt)

He kills people who disagree or revolt against him

He refuses to give democracy thus making the future of Libya to be

questionable

He uses force and brutality

In 1970 he hung students who were marching, demonstrating and

demanding right all across Libya

He did a brutal Massacre by executing 1200 unarmed prisoner in Abu

Salim prison in less that 3 hours.


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Gaddafi as a Dictator (Co

nt)

Involved in exploding Pan Am flight 103 in ever Lockerbie, Scotland and

killed 270 people

He was highly involved in Terrorist activities

He uses terrorism when western governments perceive slight against his

regime ( bombing several European airports, Berlin nightclub, Pan Am 103)


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Aristotles Virtue The

ory

Ethics is a study that should be done in systems. When a person follows the

systemic study of how best a human should live they would grow up to be

ethical.

According to Aristotle ethical knowledge should not be only in theory it should

be implemented. So, Kaddafi in order to be virtuous he should start living as one

instead of just reading about virtue. But being the leader he is it would be hard for

him to change his ways.

Everything a human does should always point to some good. But when we

observe Gaddafi ways he is not working towards showing happiness to peopleinstead he is progressing towards his own happiness of staying in the seat until he

dies. He is doing no good and as a result there would be no virtue.

Some actions and emotions provide wrong kind of happiness and happiness

through practicing that kind of virtue is wrong and cannot be considered ethical at

all.


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Aristotles Virtue The

ory

Aristotle does not consider actions as immoral or unethical he considers

the perso

n behind the actio

n as moral

or unethical.

A person who is highly moral and ethical would consider making good use

of the military he has but Instead Gaddafi is mass murdering and killing

people for his own will of staying in power.

He is not only killing people against him but he is also asking people to go

against anyone whooppose his regime.

He has never apologized or felt sorry for what he has done and he has

done everything for pure selfish reasons.

He has never been virtuous or never tried to act virtuous

So we would name him as an unethical and immoral leader who should not

be in power as per Aristotles Virtue Theory.


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Mills Utilitarianism

Most people should be happy with the outcome of our actions. These

actions should be able to produce more happiness to more number ofpeople and when a person does this he is highly ethical and true to

his moral.

Gaddafi is happy and others are all in turmoil and this is due to his fulfilling

selfish motive.

He not only scares the people of Libya but he scares the whole world thus

making many not happy.

The most important thing in utilitarianism is the consequences of the action.

The consequences of his actions are really bad and its diminishing peoples

happiness.

There is no good done but rather killing and betraying.

Thus Gaddafi is unethical and highly immoral.


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Mills Utilitarianism

Killing itself doesnt promote happiness toothers and in this case it is

bringing happinessonly t

oGaddafi

According to us, Dictatorship is something that does not bring happiness to

all and this case many peoples happiness is in vain except for some

people who support him.

But as a world everybody are against his form of happiness.

Mill says By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by

unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.

So to conclude, we believe what Gaddafi is doing is producing more pain

rather than pleasure so the best thing for him to do right now would be to

become morally correct and get down of his leadership throne and give

happiness to all.


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Kantianism

There should be a morally justifiable way for reacting to someone who

opposes your actions Gaddafi is reacting against people who are protesting but he is not acting

morally because he cannot justify his actions.

Everyone who disagrees are killed or imprisoned. So he is morally wrong.

We would say that a morally and ethically right person would treat others

as ends and not mere means.

Libya is a third world country but Gaddafi and has lots of money and thus

he used the people as a means to his power and never thought about their

welfare.

If Gaddafi was morally justifiable he would have considered living just like

his people but he did not and he is highly immoral.


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Kantianism

According to the information we gathered he is highly immoral and his

actions are n

ot m

orally justifiable.

To conclude, Gaddafi actions are considered morally unjustified and thus

making him an immoral and unethical leader.

Aristotle might say that he is acting by his virtue of pride but even

that virtue has grown immensely high that it leads to killing and

imprisonment of all who are against him. Anyone leading a country

who puts his welfare above the welfare of the people he rules should

be considered immoral and unethical.


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Articles to

view

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12529738

http://abcnews.go.com/International/christiane-amanpour-interviews-libyas-moammar-gadhafi/story?id=13019942

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