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Still, most Americans see themselves as free and voice their opinions loudly. What does this mean exactly? Is it the same freedom ...

himself, without mischief reaching at least to his near connexions, and often far beyond them"(Mills,9). John Stuart Mill seemed ...

of yourself and your natural abilities, or your position in society. You know nothing of your sex, race, nationality, or individua...

action should be judged in terms of whether or not that act brings the "greatest good" to the "greatest number" (Frost, 1962, p. 9...

contributions to ethical and social theory" (Anonymous John Stuart Mill 1806-1873, 2002; MILL.HTM). In his work "Principles of ...

line of work, or even work at all. The government does demand allegiance and can draft members of the society if a war thus demand...

the solider represents the state and the people are merely innocent bystanders. At the same time, during a draft, one could also a...

facilitate a persons physical or moral good. In other words, laws should be formulated only in so far as one persons actions inter...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

In four pages society's conflict is examined with a contrast and comparison of Marx's and Coser's theories. Two sources are cited...

of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...

being antithetical to their interests, but rather looked upon government as an instrument for promoting and protecting the interes...

shoppers. What is proposed is a nuisance law, with a nuisance being defined as something that contributes nothing to the social go...

Woody Guthries and Henry Fondas careers, and many current land- and water-use policies in the western United States. Ideas, even b...

altar, they represent Jesus human and divine natures. Believers are also called to be the light of the world. In the Smoking Flame...

what the concept of rights truly meant to the populace as a whole, with his general consensus reflecting the respect for and appre...

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

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

contradictory, which is why he is so controversial. One can take the meaning of Mills writings to suggest that individuality rules...

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...

penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself" ...

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