50 Utilitaria Essays, Term Papers and Book Reports
A Women's Care
A Womens Care
"I like them to talk nonsense. That's man's one privilege over all creation. Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err!" (160) Dmitri Prokofitch Razumihin
The psychological realism apparent in the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky does not exclusively apply to men. T....
Address Unknown
Address Unknown is a riveting piece. It is hard to determine exactly how to feel as the story unfolds. Using pure emotions can make it difficult to make good decisions and judgments. If you use the ethical theories discussed by MacKinnon, it seems easier to make true ethical judgments.....
Boot Camps: Do They Work and What Are Alternatives
Boot Camps: Do They Work and What Are Alternatives?
The truth is that juveniles committ crimes just as adults committ crimes. The only
difference, is that juveniles often suffer less harsh punishments than adults. One
punishment that juveniles may have to go through is they may have ....
capital punishment
Capital Punishment
Capital punishment refers to sanctioned executions. The issue of capital punishment raises many different arguments and is questioned by the media, politicians and the public, upon the pros and cons of the death penalty.
The death penalty in Australia was abolished in 1984 a....
Capital Punishment and the perspectives of law
Capital punishment in regards to Canadian society is largely apart of our past but is also an ongoing controversial issue. It is connected to our society today through ethical, sociological, psychological and moral perspectives as well as legal concepts. Both sides of the issue are discussed in this....
Capital Punishment in Review
Capital Punishment in Review
Introduction
The issue of the death penalty and capital punishment has long been one of the most controversial issues debated in the history of the United States. It is an important issue because it deals with life, the value of life, and personal liberties. The death....
Center for Ethics and Business
Outline
1. Philosophical ethics
2. Teleological (results oriented) ethics
a. Jeremy Bentham: quantifying pleasure
b. John Stuart Mill: types of pleasure
3. Deontological (act oriented) ethics ....
Charles Dikens Hard Times
Charles Dickens
In many of Dickens novels, he shows concern about social issues and particularly about how poverty and lack of education affected children. As a child, Dickens had known what it was like to be poor. His father was imprisoned for debt when he was a young boy and he was forced t....
Corruption
Corruption itself is nothing but the façade or manifestation for bigger hidden problems and motivations. In order to commit the act of corruption, one should have a strong motivation, like any wrong act, you cannot do it if you didn't feel it is necessary and unavoidable. Here, it differs a great d....
Ethical Dilemas Concering Education
At the dawn of human consciousness, mankind was struck upon the head with a double edged sword. One half of the blade cursed us with having to make difficult choices, the other gracing us with the ability to distinguish what is morally correct. Every day people are faced with difficult choices to ma....
Ethical Systems
As members of any society, people must follow certain rules. These rules can be laws set forth by a court of law or they can be ethical as determined by the beliefs of society. Ethical systems were created to help determine right from wrong for society, but may not necessarily be determined by a cou....
Ethics and Slavery in the United States
An era of tension began in America ever since the newly formed cluster of states gained independence from Great Britain. Slavery was an integral part of the society and the economy in the United States up until the end of the Civil War, but it existed with great controversy. People back in that tim....
Ethics in negotiation: oil and water or good lubrication?
Most of the time parties do haggling in negotiation and sometime negotiation finish on a good note i.e. parties getting a better deal in their pocket or situation comes when party walk off and not able to sustain the relationship for future negotiation. This article put emphasis on the cost of uneth....
Euthanasia
Euthanasia is defined in the Chambers English Dictionary as the act or practice of putting someone painlessly, or as gently as possible, to death. There are various forms of Euthanasia, which I must explain before referring to the teachings of the different Christian denominations. The most common....
Euthanasia: Comparing Kantian And Utilitarian Ideas
Euthanasia: Comparing Kantian And Utilitarian Ideas
Two hundred years ago, to question the absolute worth of human life was an unforgivable offense. Individuals who attempted suicide were often punished in courts, and even sent to work camps. Those who were successful were often buried with s....
Five ethical theories
Business ethics is important to companies because they need to exhibit high moral standards when dealing in business practices. Before discussing business ethics one needs to fully understand the definition of ethics. Ethics first deals with individual character, including what it means to be a m....
Foundations of Utilitarianism
In retrospect we must decide what is right or wrong in making moral decisions .In order to do so, there are Ethical theories set in place as guilder lines for decision making. These standards are used to evaluate actions and policies. In effect such theories define what it means to act morally, an....
Global Communications Gap Analysis
GAP ANALYSIS: GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS
Gap Analysis: Global Communications
Davin Ramsaroop
University of Phoenix
Gap Analysis: Global Communications
In an increasingly global economy, superior leaders demonstrate the ability to communicate clearly by reducing barriers to com....
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
In what ways and how effectively, does Dickens represent the child as a victim of opposition in Victorian education between the wisdom of the Head and the wisdom of the Heart and how far in the novel is this tension resolved?
This essay will discuss why the children within the novel Hard ....
hedonism
Ethics
Hedonism
Hedonism means "pleasure" + âismâ. The hedonistic view focuses on increasing pleasure. There seems to be no common ground on what actually constitutes pleasurable or painful activities. The hedonistic philosophy usually has a sexual or libidinal connotation.
The basic ....
Higher Than Human
Peter Singer is a controversial Utilitarian philosopher who has written many books and currently teaches at Princeton University. He bases all of his philosophies on the Utilitarian principle: what ever action creates the most happiness for the most people is the correct action. In his books, Singer....
Human Rights
Human Rights are fundamental to a healthy society, but they can be seen as conditional in which other rights will restrict or override them . This can be seen in the case of the freedom of Expression and the recent enactment of hate speech laws in the majority of Democracies. Democracies that implem....
Individualism
INDIVIDUALISM
Individualism was a unique concept that developed in the late eighteenth century Europe, which placed the individual on the highest pedestal, and considered the State to be merely a tool of protection from internal and external aggression so as to allow individuals to attain the pea....
Is refusing to employ a smoker ethical?
Is Refusing to Employ a Smoker Ethical?
I believe that it is not okay to implement a law that would prohibit an employee from smoking tobacco on the job, and especially in the employees free time away from work. Montgomery County, Pennsylvania is trying to implement a new proposal to only allow....
Jeremy Bentham
If Jeremy Bentham were alive today, he would be a very happy man. He was a very forward thinking man who led
the country to challenge their view point on a variety of issues such as individual and economic freedom, the
separation of church and state, freedom of expression equal rights for wome....
Kant and Mill's Theories
In July of 1994, Paul J. Hill, a former Presbyterian minister and later a pro-life activist, was prosecuted for killing Dr. John Britton, an abortion performing doctor, and James Barrett, a volunteer, outside a clinic in Pensacola, Florida. Prior to this, Hill commented on the murder of Dr. David....
Kantianism - Ethics in Business
In Kantianism reason is the sole authority for determining what is ethical and what is ethical must be based on a principle or rule that that must apply to every human being universally, without exception. The rule is based on what Kant calls the Categorical Imperative- they base morality on uni....
Laws and Ethics in Nursing
Law and Ethics in Nursing
In every nurse's career, the nurse is faced with many legal or ethical dilemmas. One of the professional competencies for nursing states that nurses should " integrate knowledge of ethical and legal aspects of health care and professional values into nursing practice....
Poverty
Poverty: Is there an escape?
Growing up, we were poor. I remember months at a time where we would have pinto beans for dinner, and what we hoped was that my mom had enough money to make some cornbread and enough to put some sort of pork in the beans so that tasted okay. My mom was a waitress,....
Proof is simply beyond the capacity
Certain individuals who commit crimes do so at their own free will, and many have no qualms as to the consequences of their actions. To some, it matters not the possibility that if they are caught, there is the chance they may be executed. Sometimes the crimes committed by certain persons are done....
Social Responsibilities
Introduction
There is no doubt that a successful organization has to have proper strategies, marketing and effective management. However, there are more different responsibilities that organizations have to face in order to become the leader in today¡¦s competitive business world. This paper ....
STEM CELL RESEARCH
Stem Cell research is one of the most controversial issues going on in the world today.
Many people are against, but a lot of society today is fighting for it. You cannot open a
magazine anymore without a story covering the research or lack thereof. There are many
Pro-lifers activates th....
Stem Cell Research
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), stem cells are (1) "Cells with the ability to divide for indefinite periods in culture and to give rise to specialized cells." Stem cells are basically unspecialized cells that can, with proper physiologic or experimental conditions, b....
Stirling Bridges Unloading of Surplus Tools Dilemma
Stirling Bridges Unloading of Surplus Tools Dilemma
Everyday businesses are forced to make decisions that are going to help benefit their industry. Unfortunately, businesses are amoral, and the decisions they make may have nothing to do with right or wrong, but simply if the....
The Abstraction of Beasts
Carl Sagan. The Abstractions of Beasts
Tom Regan. The Case for Animal Rights
Introduction
This week we will be taking up two essays on the topic of animal rights: The Abstractions of Beasts, published in 1977 by Carl Sagan, and The Case for Animal Rights published in 1985 by....
The study of Walmart
"In 1962, four new retailers were born. One called Kmart was started in Garden City, Michigan, another called Target was started in Minneapolis, another from Woolworth, the big name in retailing at the time, called Woolco was started, and the final one in rural Rogers, Arkansas, called Walmart. Thir....
Utalitarian View of Punishment vs. Kantian View of Punishment
The Utilitarian argues that punishing a person is justified if and only if doing so has or is likely to have better consequences than not doing so. And by incapacitating the offender, therefore preventing him from engaging in further undesirable behavior, others may be dissuaded from committing the ....
Utilitarianisim
Utilitarianism
Happiness is something that everyone in this world tried their hardest to achieve in their lifetime. It is something that we are constantly seeking. Happiness is what drives us to continue to work, succeed, and press on through life. For many of us, our mission in life is to disco....
Utilitarianism
In his work, Utilitarianism, John Stuart Mill states that, happiness is desirable, and the only thing desirable, as an end; all other things being only desirable as means to that end (Mill) and that pleasure and the absence and avoidance of pain are the only two things that area desirable as end....
Utilitarianism - The most serious objection. Can it be overcome?
The angle which I am going to adopt, in answering the above question is that which Australian philosopher J.J.C. Smart might take. I am going to defending Utilitarianism as a theory that is based on logic and not on the often irrational emotions of the majority of humans. The general feelings of the....
Utilitarianism and decisions about violence
Utilitarianism is the moral theory that decisions should be made in order to produce the most happiness, or the least amount of unhappiness. This theory has three main components: First, only the consequences of actions are to be judged. Second, the consequences are to be assessed by the amount of ....
Utilitarianism and Kantianism Evaluated through Reflection on J.M. Coetzees Disgrace
Utilitarianism is a theory based on the promotion of good consequences and judgment of actions according to the results. Kantianism is another theory of ethics, which believes that a human life cannot be measured by quantity. This paper will present several aspects of these two theories and illustra....
Wal-Mart
"In 1962, four new retailers were born. One called Kmart was started in Garden City, Michigan, another called Target was started in Minneapolis, another from Woolworth, the big name in retailing at the time, called Woolco was started, and the final one in rural Rogers, Arkansas, called Walmart. Thir....
Wal-Mart
"In 1962, four new retailers were born. One called Kmart was started in Garden City, Michigan, another called Target was started in Minneapolis, another from Woolworth, the big name in retailing at the time, called Woolco was started, and the final one in rural Rogers, Arkansas, called Walmart. Thir....
What is Happiness?
Utilitarianism is a system of ethics according to which the rightness or wrongness of an action should be judged by its consequences. The goal of utilitarian ethics is to promote the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people. According to Mills, "the creed which accepts as the foundation ....
who guards the guardians? judicial control of administration
Administrative law encompasses laws and legal principles governing the administration and regulation of government agencies (both Federal and state). Such agencies are delegated power by Congress (or in the case of a state agency, the state legislature) to act as agents for the executive. Generally,....
Yahoo! in China: Victim of Law or Partner in Crime
Victim of Law
Or
Partner in Crime?
Introduction:
âAnd of course, the information societyâs very life blood is freedom. It is freedom that enables citizens everywhere to be....
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