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Utilitarianism According to Philosophy Professor Bernard Williams

In six pages this paper considers the views of Professor Bernard Williams, who is Cambridge University's Knightbridge Professor of...

Similarities and Differences Between Arts and Crafts

us. With those thoughts in mind we shall proceed. A place to start There is a multitude of definitions, and yet no one is willin...

Methicillin Susceptible and Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus

hospital and longterm health care settings. Of those who have acquired the infection, most are methicillin resistant ((MMWR, 2001...

Inability to Ever Justify Cheating

to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...

Limited Liability and Justifying It Philosophically

Rawlsian justice is concerned with the idea of justice being fair and good, and it has a hope that social institutions do not give...

Abortion According to Utilitarianism and Kantian Ethics

(Larue, 1998). This value determination was given a moral rationalization and basis through interpretations of scripture and relig...

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 ...

Abstract and Concrete Language in Poetry

own anguish, illustrating the poets "mastery of weaving spontaneously narrative, meditative, and descriptive elements into a seemi...

The Philosophy of Utilitariansim

on actions, then the argument would end there. Utilitarianism, therefore, is their effect on society and the world at large. Actio...

Capitalism Ideas of Karl Marx

other businesses, had been taking place which would eventually result in the workers favor. Transfer of ownership of these busine...

United States, Japan, and Flexibility of Labor

can make the new technological developments as well as embrace them. The reason for this success has been the adoption of ...

Nursing Applications and the Ethics of Stem Cell Research

of stem cell research far outweigh the negativities. Because of these benefits stem cell research can be ethically defended utili...

4 Questions on Organizational Theory Answered

Theories Senges book, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, largely restates many of the...

Interrogations and Interviews

naively bring forth any reliable confessions, it was aimed to give the Judicial system a way of determining when a confession was ...

Thematic Comparison of 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'Othello'A Comparison of Themes in Othello and Romeo and Juliet

a marvelos contrast in dark and light, which is aptly used in a good deal of his plays. Both in Romeo and Juliet and in Othello, t...

Ethics According to John Stuart Mill and Mo Tzu

did not invent the principle of utility (which goes back to Plato) however, he was the first to devise a comprehensive theory base...

Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and Social Class

a man who liked to demonstrate his position as more than it honestly was, socially speaking. "He hid his debt well. He wore daintl...

Values, Their Role and Influence in Psychological Research

i.e. the primary assumptions about the origins and nature of psychology which affect the conduct of the research, the methodology ...

Various Age Groups and Developmental Psychology

indicative -- but not always characteristic -- of juvenile offenders, as demonstrated by results from a study that showed thirteen...

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 ...

Philosophy of the Pro Choice Argument

reason (Anonymous, 2001, April 16). Utilitarianism Utilitarianism, on the other hand, is an approach to morality that was devel...

Moral Reasoning and Utilitarianism

This 8 page paper responds to the question of whether a utilitarian approach to moral reasoning is adequate. The writer first desc...

Comparative Analysis of Utilitarianism and Natural Law Moral Theories

In twenty one pages this paper contrasts and compares natural law and utilitarianism in a consideration of their similarities and ...

Queen Anne Chairs with Curves

In six pages this report discusses Queen Anne's chair characteristics and notes the distinctions between those constructed in Phil...

Creationism v. Evolution and Different WWW Information Presentations

In six pages the differences in the way the World Wide Web presents information must be considered for a research standpoint with ...

J. Baird Callicott and Environmental Ethics

necessity must be maintained by man but are not included in the overall schema of environmental ethics. This holds true because d...

2 Philosophical Questions Examined

the belief that God created all plants and animals, as well as the universe itself, as recounted in the Old Testament. Evolutioni...

Attention Deficit Disorder and Parental Inteview

This is a research paper of seven pages that includes commentary, an interview with a parent, and an observation of a child suffer...

Memory's Precategorical and Categorical Distinctions

McNamara, 1996). Healy and McNamara outline the modal model of memory which was developed by James in 1890, but which was asserte...

Human Intelligence versus Computer Intelligence

In an essay consisting of three pages an article that discusses human and computer intelligence distinctions is analyzed with the ...