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'On Liberty' by John Stuart Mill and Theory

In four pages this paper discusses the rationale, argument, and philosophy of the theories presented by John Stuart Mill in 'On Li...

Politics by Aristotle and On Liberty by J.S. Mill

In eight pages this tutorial compares these philosophers' views on liberty and character within the context of their writings with...

Aquinas, Aristotle and Mil's Views on the Law

John Stuart Mill presented his take on the law in On Liberty. This paper contrasts his view with Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics an...

Deontological and Utilitarian Ethical Perspectives on Organ Transplants

significant proportion of the feelings associated with organ transplant are positive. Not all aspects of organ transplant are ass...

Women's Rights in On Liberty and The Subjection of Women by J.S. Mill

should be used to silence the opinions of others makes the implied assumption that his opinions are infallible. Mill grants that i...

Rapid Change in Works by John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, and Mary Shelley

in which genetic information will be used by insurance companies and employers in order to discriminate. It is discrimination that...

Civilization's Future, Women, and Liberty According to J.S. Mill

in order to protect society. Mill does advocate freedom to a great extent, but not to the extent that it hurts other members of th...

Philosophy and Whether to Inform or Keep Mum

The central issue has nothing to do with the sex of the individuals. The case is not affected by the fact that they are two...

Euthanasia and Ethics

behind such behavior it simply cannot be condoned, inasmuch as society cannot be defined as a scientific expression when it routin...

Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Ethics

the realm of reality as researchers in the United Kingdom produced a cloned sheep and others at the University of Tennessee cloned...

Utilitarian Ethics and Embedded Journalism

closest to as it is hard to be objective in such a circumstance. State the specific circumstances involved with the case. To prov...

Political Philosophy and 4 Essay Topics

would come about as a natural consequence of romanticism ("Romanticism," 2005). For example, romantic music inspired nationalist t...

Preemptive War and Moral Considerations

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

Unity, Being, and Becoming According to the Philosophers

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...

Plato and John Stuart Mill on Social Freedom

interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

womens lives were a measurement in comparison to these male priorities and values. The life of a woman, in other words, was that ...

Arguments of John Stuart Mill in On Liberty

that appraisal in terms of wrong, immoral, or wicked is appropriate: only in this area that deterrence and retribution as they ope...

Animal Rights

humans should be moral we often think of the works of those major philosophers who adamantly supported morality. We look to great...

Homeless Assistance and Value Theory

In ten pages this paper discusses goodness through the concepts of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant and discusses how in assista...

Ethics and Biogenetics

to heart disease and diabetes (Webster, 1999). Thanks to biogenetics, in fact, researchers can grow human cells in the laboratory ...

Comparing Ideas of Mill and Nietzsche

And Nietzsche might agree. After all, if morality is a fluke, then everything is okay. Of course, in other writings, Nietzsche di...

Buddhism and Utilitarianism

consciousness" (Sayadaw). These are the normal processes of perception, movement, and consciousness. With this concept Buddha arri...

The Individual and Society: A Comparison of the Ideas of Burke, Mill and Marx

someone who believed in totalitarian government either. White (2002) remarks: "Whether in regard to the specific demands of the sa...

Aristotle and John Stuart Mill on Virtue

is not that everyone just does what they think is right or what society tells them is right, but they sense that something good co...

Hate Speech According to John Stuart Mill

turn on their weaker subjects, so it was necessary to limit their power.5 There were two ways to do this: first, by recognizing t...

Ethics and Personalized Medicine Science

Two obvious questions linked with personalized medicine are: * Who can receive such personalized treatment? * Who pays for that pe...

The Theory of Utilitarianism

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

Morals, Utilitarianism and William Frankena

deem as acceptable. The concept of a rational society, in which the entire community is greatly influenced by principles its mem...

Fluor's Dedication to Integrity

there are other outside influences. In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can aff...

Responsibility According to John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, and Aristotle

his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...