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that school. He points out that the insight that Aristotle provides in "On the Soul" and "On the Generation of Animals" serves as...

what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...

one belonged. Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, n...

In five pages this paper considers philosophies of James Mills and Immanuel Kant in a discussion of how philosophy can develop iss...

This paper offers summary, contrasts, comparisons, and weakness analyses of these ethical philosophies. No additional sources are...

through a consideration not of personal benefit but simply on the basis that the choices are the only rational ones. Kant argues ...

accepted element in some of the more primitive of the worlds societies, more advanced societies have historically regarded promisc...

the greatest number." We can see if that makes sense in regard to a coherent position in ethics, as De George explains it. Lets l...

This essay begins by describing the moral and political philosophies of John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Adam Smith, Benito Mussolini...

The correlation between social and economic power and the perception of gender is something which has been addressed by various hi...

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

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

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...

reasons why Mill make this assertion at the close of his argument lie within the work itself. In chapter III, Mill puts worth two ...

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

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...

of stem cell research far outweigh the negativities. Because of these benefits stem cell research can be ethically defended utili...

that they progress and improve. Mill writes, "The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activit...

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

He did not believe in intervention unless necessary and in that way, there is a similarity. Mills defense of social liberty, and...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

seeking it have been unable to achieve it on their own. This is high praise and noble purpose for a structure that Madison called...