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Ethics and Biogenetics

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

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...

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...

Philosophical Works of J.S. Mill

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

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...

Political Society's Objectives in On Liberty by J.S. Mill

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

Philosophy and False Relativism

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...

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...

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...

Euthanasia and Ethics

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

Utilitarianism Act and Rule in On Liberty by J.S. Mill

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

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...

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...

Buddhism and Utilitarianism

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

A Dialogue between Historical Theorists

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

Legalizing Drugs

For example, most people do not know that cocaine was once a common ingredient in Coca-Cola. Many social pressures led to the even...

The Legalization of Gambling: Its Social Impact and the Reasons for Its Continuation Paper Outline

Psychological and Family Studies ii) The Responsibility of the State on Compulsive Gambling iii) Studies from Gamblers Anonymous...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

The Concept of Virtue

distinguishes between the activities of the practical and intellectual virtues, with the activities of political virtue having a s...

Comparative Analysis of John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, and Alfred Lord Tennyson

In two pages this paper contrasts and compares the differences and similarities in the writings of these poets, essayists, and phi...

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...

Evaluating On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

which can possibly be doubtful, but think that some particular principle or doctrine should be forbidden to be questioned because ...

Comparing John Stuart Mill and Mary Wollstonecraft's Ideas About Female Emancipation

live up to its promises. Mill realized that the male had practically unlimited power over the woman and that the institution of ...

Contemporary Society and the Utilitarianism of John Stuart Mill

He explains: "Men lose their high aspirations as they lose their intellectual tastes, because they have not time or opportunity fo...

Contrast and Comparison of Karl Marx and John Stuart Mill

of common sense, then any form of control that is promoted by Mills utilitarian belief comes not from the desire to better the wor...

Utilitarianism and John Stuart Mill

this chapter, the highest normative principle involves the idea that "actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happ...

Utilitarianism and Morality According to John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant

but when exampled it becomes clear. For instance, one ought to respect human life. If one respects the life of another, then they ...

Should The United States Legalize Medical Marijuana Use?

of such states as Montana (Anonymous, 2005), Rhode Island (Roman, 2006) as well as Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Ne...

John Stuart Mill, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Freedom

of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others" (Mill). Thus, he does advocate freedom to a great extent...

Progress Concept and On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

public opinion than when in opposition to it" (Mill 76). When assessing the notion of progress and how it related to Mills...