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Animal Rights, Preference Utilitarianism, and Peter Singer's Theory of Rights

is caused by eating an animal. As a utilitarian, Singer focuses more on the consequences of the act and not the consequences of f...

Consequences of Moral Philosophy

In one page this essay considers how Immanuel Kant's moral philosophy on consequences transforms it into the utilitarianism princ...

Censorship and Utilitarianism Memo

in mind; however, that extension is limited to the number of people who stand to benefit from its application. For example, Londo...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

heartlessness of the industrialist, Bounderby, against the humanity and goodness of one of his textile workers, Stephen Blackpool....

A Utilitarian Approach to Sports

school, and despite working as many hours as I could, I knew I could never afford tuition, so I had to win a scholarship. Winning ...

Ethics in Health Care

that birth occurs when a woman is in the youthful childbearing years. A student asks: " Should age be factor in permitting pregnan...

Whistleblowing's Effect on Ethical Organizational Behavior

in order to accomplish a number of goals, both those of the organization and those of individual participants" (p. 44). According...

Ethical Decisions - Case Study

their behaviors or lack thereof. Also, Georges wife, Mary, is not a decision maker but she no doubt has an influence on the decisi...

Dickens/Utilitarianism & Hard Times

he is absolute appalled that Sissy does not know the scientific definition for "horse," and that his own children have been tempte...

Utilitarianism

with good and bad (Boeree). An example of this is when people ask one another for advice (Boeree). Egoism is another premise. It d...

An Examination of the Belmont Report

the general population are serviced. There should be no preference due to the fact that someone knows one of the workers, or becau...

Business Ethics and Ethical Theory

ethical theory, utilitarianism and deontology often enter the picture. Mill (2001) for example, who is a utilitarian, claims that ...

Themes in Dostoyevsky's Novel, Notes From The Underground

demonstrate how utilitarianism appears to have the peoples best interest in mind; however, that extension is limited to the number...

Community Policing and Ethics

In twelve pages community policing is considered from an ethical perspective in terms of virtue, Kantian ethics, utilitarianism wi...

Personal Code Of Ethics

beliefs and attitudes. Most of us have many different values and attitudes. Self-accountability is one value by which I try to liv...

Three Questions in Philosophy

humans, it is not necessarily the best thing to do. Kant also supports a categorical imperative principle which suggests that some...

Utilitarianism: The Views of Bentham and Mill Compared

matters and this aspect of Benthams theory is called hedonistic utilitarianism ("Utilitarianism," 2005). Bentham (1988) further s...

Violations of Copyrights and Ethics

plagiarism sometimes enters the picture. For example, after a certain number of years, a copyright is exhausted and writers can us...

Persistent Vegetative State Patients and Ethical Decision Making

the balloon, and certain gestures, were definite responses to the environment and evidence of consciousness, but the doctors disag...

Three Essays on Philosophy and Ethics

made to render the greatest happiness for the greatest number. That is all that utilitarianism is equated with. There are differen...

Kant, Utilitarianism and Consequentialism

every objection. What is perhaps striking is that Mills theory is applicable to a variety of situations. Unlike Kant for ex...

Lex Service Group CAT Analysis

roughly 12 percent of the displaced employees a change at relocation within the company. Forty percent would be hired by the new b...

Philosophical Views on 'Wrong' Lying

a prison takeover (Burke, 1995). Though unusual, if something like that were to happen, officials would be at an extreme disadvant...

Social Work, A Utilitarian Approach

This research paper/essay presents an overview of social work ethics from a perspective based on rule utilitarianism. The ethical ...

Applying Utilitarianism to an Ethical Decision

for a long period of time. It may be noted that the problem was caused by steroid use when jerry was in his 20s, and the dangers w...

Questions on Ethics

actions that he would normally finds repugnant. Similarly, the captain of the guard who compels Joe to commit murder undermines Jo...

John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant's Philosophies

will a universal law" (Immanuel Kant). In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can ...

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...

Immorality of Surrogate Motherhood

technology grows, so will options in conception and birthing. One can only imagine that the future holds a scary world of artifici...

Brave New World Philosophical Analysis

when they heard the ringing of the bells, for they would associate this with being fed. In Brave New World, behaviorism takes the...