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that appraisal in terms of wrong, immoral, or wicked is appropriate: only in this area that deterrence and retribution as they ope...

In ten pages this paper discusses goodness through the concepts of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant and discusses how in assista...

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

And Nietzsche might agree. After all, if morality is a fluke, then everything is okay. Of course, in other writings, Nietzsche di...

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...

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

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

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

a certain set of circumstances, and that would not be acceptable as a moral guide. B) Consider a new law that requires people wit...

Two obvious questions linked with personalized medicine are: * Who can receive such personalized treatment? * Who pays for that pe...

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

would come about as a natural consequence of romanticism ("Romanticism," 2005). For example, romantic music inspired nationalist t...

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

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

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...

turn on their weaker subjects, so it was necessary to limit their power.5 There were two ways to do this: first, by recognizing t...

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...

someone who believed in totalitarian government either. White (2002) remarks: "Whether in regard to the specific demands of the sa...

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

that each person compose a ghost story (Gilbert and Gubar 239). Marys story was transformed into the novel Frankenstein; Or, the ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

morality that originated in its modern form with Jeremy Bentham -- utilitarianism. Mill believed that an action should be judged b...