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The Demands of Utilitarianism

the expense of so many others? Indeed not, inasmuch as Sarahs mistake cannot be expected to cost one hundred innocent lives over ...

Utilitarian System and Its Demands

in subconscious thought. John Stuart Mill fit into the general history of political, economic and social thought by applying his ...

Rule Utilitarianism vs. Act Utilitarianism

rules (Honderich, 1995). Act-consequentialism evaluates righteousness in respect to consequences. There is a significant different...

Act Utilitarianism and Rule Utilitarianism

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

An Analysis of Death On Demand

This five page paper explores the book by Dale Hill. The power of the word demand is the focus, a power that results in both emot...

Supply and Demand's Effect at the Pump

more of it; and the price is increasing. The law of supply and demand holds that as supply increases, price decreases (Sosi...

The Clash between Family Demands and Workplace Demands and its Influence on Women

and Pocock, 2010). The question that is addressed in this paper is to assess if this is having a disproportionate impact on women ...

Types of Utilitarianism

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

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 ...

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...

Quantity v. Quality in Utilitarianism

This 5 page paper analyzes John Stuart Mill's theory of Utilitarianism, how it works and how it evaluates actions, both quantitati...

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...

Mill and Utilitarianism

films, good meals-it doesnt really matter in the context of the doctrine. His point is that things can only be considered "better"...

Elasticity of Demand

This 8 page paper looks at the influences on elasticity of demand. The concepts and practical use of price elasticity of demand, i...

Supply and Demand for Coca-Cola Products

demand, this may be with less bought, or in the case of a product where there are numerous competitors and substitutes a shift to ...

Production Scheduling Case Study

of the best in terms of flexibility, it is also one which will be most difficult to manage in terms of labour relations and the ne...

Elasticity and Supply and Demand

The calculation is then 0.8/-0.8 = -1. Where there is a minus in front of the elasticity this is usually ignored. To look at the l...

Transportation As an Acquisition Cost Impacting on Demand

The writer explains how and why costs of transportation will impact on the demand levels of demand justice the team within consume...

UK Mobile Telephone Industry; An Economic Explanation

entry into third generation mobile technologies. The market is still growing, in 2002 there were 44.1 million subscribers, which...

Supply and Demand Questions

fewer seats. Where there is a stable supply of seats, as seen with the airline industry where there is modest growth and demand ...

3 Student Questions on Supply and Demand

is probably that this creates more revue and as such the price decrease is a good move. 2. Paul has complained to Gordon Brown th...

Conforming By Way of Nonconformity in 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' by Herman Melville

In five pages the ways in which Melville's short story protagonist can only conform to social demands through nonconformity and no...

Democracy and Education

In four pages democracy and its demands are examined in terms of social ideals and education's role....

Case Study of Exponential Smoothing

as this one is obvious. Using data that follows a measure of central tendency provides fairly accurate short-term forecasts of va...

Deontology and Utilitarianism

direct encounter with value occurs in the experience of pleasure. Delight or felt satisfaction was, according to his official vie...

The Distinction Between Persons and the Principles of Utilitarianism

causes them to prefer intellectual pleasures over sensual ones. He continues in his thinking to assume that the principle of utili...

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...

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 ...

The Development of Utilitarianism

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

Can Utilitarianism Be Considered a Sound Ethical Theory?

complements that of the utilitarian. The utilitarian focuses on the badness of the victims agony but cannot readily grasp the sign...