YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Utilitarianism According to Philosophy Professor Bernard Williams
Essays 511 - 540
out, but that he would do his best to convey his thoughts on loving God in the hopes it can help others, focusing only on loving G...
this principle, Kant directly addresses the topic of lying by posing the question: "When I am in distress, may I may a promise wit...
In other words, the terrorist attacks and the anti-American sentiment that is exhibited by Islamic extremists is only partly roote...
the womens circumstances and the move to change those circumstances. Rochesters dismissal of Antoinette, her family and her commun...
he looked at the possibility that a woman, finding herself in a loveless marriage and living a life as an overprotected wife, was ...
He did not believe in intervention unless necessary and in that way, there is a similarity. Mills defense of social liberty, and...
as a morally acceptable act from a Utilitarian point of view. Many philosophical and sociological questions loom over this issue...
He explains: "Men lose their high aspirations as they lose their intellectual tastes, because they have not time or opportunity fo...
writers could persuade the majority of the population to support the Revolution. While critics believe that many historians treat ...
which Alpine realizes by the novels end, through Bobers example, can be the foundation of a meaningful life. Bober is unsuccessf...
hold onto an ends justify the means philosophy. Consequentialism is a relatively recent concept in utilitarianism that rejects ...
The idea of utilitarianism is one that addresses whether something is of utility, whether it can actually create something positiv...
is caused by eating an animal. As a utilitarian, Singer focuses more on the consequences of the act and not the consequences of f...
In three pages this book report includes text summary, critiques its use of sources, discusses how it may be ordered and any other...
were refusing to speak. They were not going to name any names of people who may have been, or were, communist sympathizers or comm...
with good and bad (Boeree). An example of this is when people ask one another for advice (Boeree). Egoism is another premise. It d...
the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation" (Jeremy Bentham, 2006). This simple co...
many women who watched this play and related well to Nora, though they were perhaps in a position where they would never speak out...
matters and this aspect of Benthams theory is called hedonistic utilitarianism ("Utilitarianism," 2005). Bentham (1988) further s...
beliefs and attitudes. Most of us have many different values and attitudes. Self-accountability is one value by which I try to liv...
humans, it is not necessarily the best thing to do. Kant also supports a categorical imperative principle which suggests that some...
plagiarism sometimes enters the picture. For example, after a certain number of years, a copyright is exhausted and writers can us...
the balloon, and certain gestures, were definite responses to the environment and evidence of consciousness, but the doctors disag...
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 ...
the general population are serviced. There should be no preference due to the fact that someone knows one of the workers, or becau...
in order to accomplish a number of goals, both those of the organization and those of individual participants" (p. 44). According...
their behaviors or lack thereof. Also, Georges wife, Mary, is not a decision maker but she no doubt has an influence on the decisi...
administration that is tied to a clandestine love affair. Forbes prints a small article regarding another type of conflict of inte...
perhaps for good reasons but with disastrous results over the long term. Community over self is more obvious and calls to m...
Long-term solutions carry "higher personal risks and an intangible measure of worth" (Schafer, 2002; p. 14). 2. Utilitarianism A....