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Utilitarianism and its Weaknesses

hold onto an ends justify the means philosophy. Consequentialism is a relatively recent concept in utilitarianism that rejects ...

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...

Personality Approaches East and West

notes, in other words, people are constantly changing and re-inventing aspects of themselves in order to adapt to the equivalent c...

Utilitarian Views on Homosexuality

Mills view of homosexuality and same sex marriage be? How would one construct an argument against the morality of homosexual sex ...

Enron Scandal and Business Ethics

benefit from various government subsidies, it also cheated millions of shareholders using questionable accounting practices design...

Potential Career Directions

question as to whether a college degree is required for success in any field is dependent on artificially construed occupational p...

Case Study on Toxic Waste Exporting and Ethics

of employment at the plant instead of clear skies. The issue for shareholders, the board and executives, at lest is bottom line p...

Comparing and Contrasting 'Anne Frank Remembered' and 'Triumph Of The Will'

it to be banned for more than three decades. Riefenstahl, who was commissioned by Hitler to cover the events, captured such power...

Differences Between Girls and Boys

and often the meaning. Without realizing it, parents verbally address their male children differently than they do their fe...

3 Classical Philosophies and Animal Rights

and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...

Moral and Ethical Decisions in Business

(Himma, 2003). Throughout their lifetime, individuals are presented with moral dilemmas and situations in which they must make a ...

Liberal Government and Utilitarianism According to J.S. Mill

ideas about economic theory and in doing so, he arrived at the conclusion that "conventional economic analysis could not show that...

Internet Group Membership and the All Macaw Group

The student writing on this topic should note that I personally have been a member of AllMacaw since its inception and have full k...

An Examination of Hydroponics' Applications

support for plants. In the hydroponic environment nutrients (particularly Nitrogen, Phosphorous, Potassium, Calcium, Magnesium, S...

United Airlines' Bankruptcy

by imposing exorbitant fares on battered road warriors" (Tully, 2002, 42). Because the airlines have continued to raise the ticke...

Distinction Between the Mind and Body and Sixth Meditation of Rene Descartes

Cartesian dualism is also known as the "mind-body problem" and establishes that there are clearly separate and distinct aspects of...

Ethical Validity of Conscription

Halberstadts involvement with the military didnt end after Vietnam. Indeed, he has moved in and out of the military circle for de...

Wisdom, Knowledge, and Their Differences

drive. All of these things I know how to do but may not necessarily be able to specifically and definitively describe them as wit...

Slashing Home Health Care and Ethics

state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...

John Locke and Natural Law

rights of another individual. In this way, then, even if one chooses badly, they have not been damaged to the point that they have...

Ethics of Capital Punishment Case Study

The problem with meaning as it relates to Kantian duty is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connotati...

Personal Ethics Development

his relationship with God (Smith, 2001). Based on this description and my own upbringing and early training, my own decisions re...

Original Settlements, Community, and City Distinctions

of family or kinship ties in addition to having the same beliefs, rituals and symbols. The Urban Revolution The urban revolution ...

Wisconsin Welfare Program's Innovation

their own, without the help of the welfare system. In Wisconsin the work program approached the problem from a different direction...

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...

Is There a Distinction Between the Soul and the Body?

a body" (Aristotle), Plato illustrates his inability to see beyond mankinds mortal connection, opting instead to focus upon a deci...

Henry Sidgwick's Theories and Arguments

to that of Egoism which is based on the premise that mans concern with his own good is the basis of mans morality. Sidgwick in his...

Courts and Ethics

technical crime. It is worth noting that ethics is not what values are actually held by the courts or the individuals, but of th...

DSM IV Criteria for Schizophrenia

descriptions for various mental and psychological disorders and breaks them down into diagnostic classes. Utilizing the DSM IV al...

Violent Crime and White Collar Crime

to the lowest-ranking person in an business or organization. First, it is important to understand just what white collar crime ac...