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that school. He points out that the insight that Aristotle provides in "On the Soul" and "On the Generation of Animals" serves as...

In a report consisting of eight pages abortion is examined within the context of David Hume's utilitarian philosophy and Aristotle...

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

of the above arguments, however, is the right of the fetus to live. As has been noted above, many in U.S. society assume that the...

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

rules (Honderich, 1995). Act-consequentialism evaluates righteousness in respect to consequences. There is a significant different...

business ethics. The first, they maintain, was launched in the defense industry during the 1980s, when reports of military contrac...

Washington Medical Center, Seattle, and a clinical instructor, bio behavioral nursing and health systems, at the University of Was...

the expense of so many others? Indeed not, inasmuch as Sarahs mistake cannot be expected to cost one hundred innocent lives over ...

action should be judged in terms of whether or not that act brings the "greatest good" to the "greatest number" (Frost, 1962, p. 9...

to do with whether or not the act increased or decreased overall happiness or whether they have utility. Acts are evaluated based ...

direct encounter with value occurs in the experience of pleasure. Delight or felt satisfaction was, according to his official vie...

deem as acceptable. The concept of a rational society, in which the entire community is greatly influenced by principles its mem...

causes them to prefer intellectual pleasures over sensual ones. He continues in his thinking to assume that the principle of utili...

In six pages this paper considers relatives of people suffering from debilitative diseases such as Alzheimer's and concludes that ...

this principle, Kant directly addresses the topic of lying by posing the question: "When I am in distress, may I may a promise wit...

the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation" (Jeremy Bentham, 2006). This simple co...

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...

complements that of the utilitarian. The utilitarian focuses on the badness of the victims agony but cannot readily grasp the sign...

on special interests; further, in Tinders words, "[G]overnment comes to the aid of only the well organized and influential ... Pol...

up with perhaps the earliest fully developed system of utilitarianism, of which two prominent features are noteworthy ("Utilitari...

This 4 page paper gives an overview of rectificatory justice according to Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics. This paper includes dis...

1. the best in the moral philosophy of all ages and places; 2. the moral standards of Christendom; 3. the ethics of the Christian ...

* Extraverted Sensing (BSM Consulting, 2006). * Introverted Sensing (BSM Consulting, 2006). * Extraverted Intuition (BSM Consultin...

tied to either philosophic or religious thought. In developing a unique, personal system, questions emerge. Should a code be c...

are a small minority (we hope). It is important for scientists to not get so intent on proving one thing or another that they vi...

or not having the right to life" (Marquis 241). Therefore, Marquis, more or less, examines what it is that makes killing any human...

the fact that regardless of whether or not abortions are legal, women will still get abortions. These were, and are, referred to a...

pressures to reduce public spending and a general social trend for individual to increase their personal responsibility. The issu...

The case at hand concerns partial birth abortion. Abortion-though guaranteed as a right by the Constitution-is something that is s...