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John Stuart Mill and Drugs Legalization

prevailing arguments these days is that one would not want a physician operating on one when the physician is using marijuana on h...

A Business Dilemma and the Ethics of Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, and Thomas Hobbes

a fair and equitable return for the business owner and his or her investors. Clearly, the world has become far more complicated a...

Legislation Enacted Under Utilitarianism

to do with whether or not the act increased or decreased overall happiness or whether they have utility. Acts are evaluated based ...

Analyzing the 1995 Film Seven by David Fincher

taking his time. He halts, turns to one wall where the current wallpaper is torn away to reveal flowery wallpaper underneath. So...

Considerations in Humanitarian Intervention

sometimes a culturally driven process. It is the product of the morals and ethics of the entities involved on both sides of the s...

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 ...

Sociological Imagination/Mills

This paper discusses C. Wright Mills (1916-1962), and his sociological imagination perspective on society. The writer discusses a...

Summaries of Articles by Rawls, Mills, and Dworkin

special vulnerability to prejudice or hostility or stereotype..." (Dworkin 56). II. MILLS Mills poses the question that is of in...

Young Societies and On Liberty by J.S. Mill

a society as being "mature" enough for liberty. The principal point of Mills essay is-- in reference to Western societies-- is th...

Types of Utilitarianism

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

Act Utilitarianism and Rule Utilitarianism

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

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...

Immorality of Deforestation Questioned

of an action is determined only by the welfare of individuals (2003). It is important to note that this topic involves the environ...

Contemporary Social Applications of the Human Rights' and Justice Theories of John Rawls

man with fine moral sense when dealing with other human beings and is considered to be an admirable man not only because of his wr...

The Radical Nature of the American Revolution

This researech paper offers a comprehensive examination of the ideas that preceded the American Revolution, such as the concepts p...

Excerpt from The Silent Partners by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

for diseases. The workers are constantly fatigued from the long hours, some rooms are too hot, others too cold, some dripping with...

Kant, Utilitarianism and Consequentialism

every objection. What is perhaps striking is that Mills theory is applicable to a variety of situations. Unlike Kant for ex...

Utilitarianism: The Views of Bentham and Mill Compared

matters and this aspect of Benthams theory is called hedonistic utilitarianism ("Utilitarianism," 2005). Bentham (1988) further s...

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 Use of Utilitarianism in Corporate America

This 8 page paper explains the theories of both Bentham and Mill, and argues that corporate America should embrace a mild form of ...

Health Care and an Application of Distributive Justice

Where Philosophy and Reality Meet Accessibility to and the cost of health care have been overriding issues...

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 ...

Edward Jones/The Known World

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...

Ethics of the Ford Pinto

deaths resulting from the Pintos faulty design because no one at Ford could know the future. Certainly design engineers did not i...

Ethics of the Ford Pinto

design engineers did not intend for the Pinto to be dangerous in rear-end collisions, so the Kantian perspective essentially would...

Lowell System

single location" (Francis Lowell, 2001). Contemporary commentary on the way in which Lowells first factory seemed to spring up ov...

Ancient Roman Medicine

in five pages this paper examines how ancient Rome used such medicines as St. John's Wort in a consideration of contemporary treat...

Schumacher Society's Role and Contemporary World's Sustainable Development

In twenty five pages this paper examines the meaning of the concept known as sustainable development and also considers the Schuma...

The Societal Rebuff of Anyone Different

Homosexuals and Muslims in Contemporary Society The author of this paper considers the importance of the choice of words in repor...

Utilitarianism and Aristotelian Virtue

then, where does one go? Which way is correct? Going back to ancient times, Aristotle had a lot to say about virtue. In the Nicoma...