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

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...

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

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

closest to as it is hard to be objective in such a circumstance. State the specific circumstances involved with the case. To prov...

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

humans should be moral we often think of the works of those major philosophers who adamantly supported morality. We look to great...

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

significant proportion of the feelings associated with organ transplant are positive. Not all aspects of organ transplant are ass...

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...

a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...

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

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

facilitate a persons physical or moral good. In other words, laws should be formulated only in so far as one persons actions inter...

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

being antithetical to their interests, but rather looked upon government as an instrument for promoting and protecting the interes...

shoppers. What is proposed is a nuisance law, with a nuisance being defined as something that contributes nothing to the social go...

fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...

reasons why Mill make this assertion at the close of his argument lie within the work itself. In chapter III, Mill puts worth two ...

that they progress and improve. Mill writes, "The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activit...

The correlation between social and economic power and the perception of gender is something which has been addressed by various hi...

in which genetic information will be used by insurance companies and employers in order to discriminate. It is discrimination that...

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

the realm of reality as researchers in the United Kingdom produced a cloned sheep and others at the University of Tennessee cloned...

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...

altar, they represent Jesus human and divine natures. Believers are also called to be the light of the world. In the Smoking Flame...

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

behind such behavior it simply cannot be condoned, inasmuch as society cannot be defined as a scientific expression when it routin...