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Can Utilitarianism Be Considered a Sound Ethical Theory?

complements that of the utilitarian. The utilitarian focuses on the badness of the victims agony but cannot readily grasp the sign...

Ethical Theories and Norma Rae

offer the greatest good to the greatest number, in that the rights of the majority - the workforce - are protected. However, we al...

Quantity v. Quality in Utilitarianism

This 5 page paper analyzes John Stuart Mill's theory of Utilitarianism, how it works and how it evaluates actions, both quantitati...

The U.S. Decision to Invade Iraq in 2003, Justified with References to John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Nagel and the Principles of Utilitarianism

rule-utilitarianism. Act-utilitarianism "supposes that each particular action should be evaluated solely by references to its own ...

The Flaw in Utilitarian Theory

is one alternative in deriving a moral theory when considering a variety of philosophical models. Above all, it is simplistic. And...

Relevant Ethical Theories

the ethical and moral code by which humans live. Through the distortion of individualism, humanity has turned into a selfish, ego...

A Utilitarian Approach to Sports

school, and despite working as many hours as I could, I knew I could never afford tuition, so I had to win a scholarship. Winning ...

Ethical Considerations on Human Trafficking in the Middle East

trafficking, even within the different cultures and in the Middle East, is reflected with the majority of countries in that area s...

The Theory of Utilitarianism

up with perhaps the earliest fully developed system of utilitarianism, of which two prominent features are noteworthy ("Utilitari...

Deontological and Teleological Ethical Theories

even if the consequences of an action are good, if the motives behind the action were wrong, it will still be wrong (Some fundamen...

Questions on Ethics

actions that he would normally finds repugnant. Similarly, the captain of the guard who compels Joe to commit murder undermines Jo...

Violations of Copyrights and Ethics

plagiarism sometimes enters the picture. For example, after a certain number of years, a copyright is exhausted and writers can us...

Ethics in Health Care

that birth occurs when a woman is in the youthful childbearing years. A student asks: " Should age be factor in permitting pregnan...

Utilitarianism

with good and bad (Boeree). An example of this is when people ask one another for advice (Boeree). Egoism is another premise. It d...

Moral and Ethical Decisions in Business

(Himma, 2003). Throughout their lifetime, individuals are presented with moral dilemmas and situations in which they must make a ...

Courts and Ethics

technical crime. It is worth noting that ethics is not what values are actually held by the courts or the individuals, but of th...

Ethical Decisions - Case Study

their behaviors or lack thereof. Also, Georges wife, Mary, is not a decision maker but she no doubt has an influence on the decisi...

Ethics Awareness Inventory

also something that is easily masked. Bad people can appear good and vice versa. Making a determination about an individuals tru...

Kindleberger on the World Economy

the overall health of a nations citizens can be used as an indicator of economic primacy is certainly debatable; however, the Worl...

Utilitarianism, Virtue, and Ethics

In six pages this paper considers relatives of people suffering from debilitative diseases such as Alzheimer's and concludes that ...

Community Policing and Ethics

In twelve pages community policing is considered from an ethical perspective in terms of virtue, Kantian ethics, utilitarianism wi...

American Poverty and Philosophy

The poor in America are considered in a paper consisting of five pages in which various ethical philosophical perspectives includi...

Act Utilitarianism and Rule Utilitarianism

In six pages this essay defines utilitarianism and then attempts to answer 'Does rule utilitarianism collapse into act utilitarian...

Types of Utilitarianism

This 5 page paper defines the philosophy of utilitarianism and differentiates between act-utilitarianism and rule-utilitarianism. ...

The Physical Realm According to Rene Descartes

examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...

Ethics of Capital Punishment Case Study

The problem with meaning as it relates to Kantian duty is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connotati...

Religious Prejudice and Ethics

perhaps for good reasons but with disastrous results over the long term. Community over self is more obvious and calls to m...

Mill and Utilitarianism

films, good meals-it doesnt really matter in the context of the doctrine. His point is that things can only be considered "better"...

Utilities Company in Southern California

the backcountry, where the weather gets very dry and then, pass on any of their costs to customers instead of holding the company ...

Soundless Television

not romantically involved. Jack is imitating a robot: his arms are bent at the elbows, hes bent at the waist and moving very stiff...