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In fifteen pages this paper examines the intention of philosophy from a historical perspective that includes consideration of phil...

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

In five pages this essay discusses Martin Luther King's 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' from John Stuart Mill's utilitarian philosop...

In five pages this paper considers 3 of Kant's formulations regarding a lone categorical imperative as presented in his philosophi...

In two pages this paper examines the style of prose employed by John Stuart Mill in a comparison with that of Carlyle and analyzed...

begin to know what is for the good of the majority when it comes to the living world as a whole, inasmuch as individuals perceive ...

In eight pages this paper discusses the views of Burke and Hobbes on government, man, and human nature with a comparison of their ...

This paper examines how in Amphiboly of the Concepts of Reflection, Immanuel Kant refutes Locke and Leibniz's theories in 5 pages....

offer the greatest good to the greatest number, in that the rights of the majority - the workforce - are protected. However, we al...

(Himma, 2003). Throughout their lifetime, individuals are presented with moral dilemmas and situations in which they must make a ...

This paper considers 2 Victorian Age writings, essayist John Stuart Mill's 'Speech in Favor of Capital Punishment' and John Henry ...

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

anti-discrimination legal issues and laws, equal rights protection, and the newer "discipline" of modern and critical race theory....

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

critics contending that dialogue apart from justice is nothing more than a veiled continuation of social domination. Distin...

himself, without mischief reaching at least to his near connexions, and often far beyond them"(Mills,9). John Stuart Mill seemed ...

He and a group of utilitarians formed a small Utilitarian Society based on many of the writings of Bentham. His many works appeare...

of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...

(1757) were published when he was only in his mid to late twenties. In the same time period, he married an Irish Catholic woman na...

the time, which was that an absolute monarchy was not an adequate form of governance because it contained no means by which indivi...

what the concept of rights truly meant to the populace as a whole, with his general consensus reflecting the respect for and appre...

in order to protect society. Mill does advocate freedom to a great extent, but not to the extent that it hurts other members of th...

should be used to silence the opinions of others makes the implied assumption that his opinions are infallible. Mill grants that i...

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

in his infamous work On Liberty, he relays that idea. Joplins idea is quite a philosophical, intangible view of freedom as it sug...

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

interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...

In six pages this paper discusses the strengths and weaknesses of various philosophical theories with the utilitarianism of John S...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the views of Immanuel Kant and John Locke on the concept of government as represen...

In five pages the philosophical concepts of John Stuart Mill are used to argue in support of U.S. marijuana legalization. Three s...