Paradox of hedonism

Term Paper: Self-Examination Throughout the duration of this course, I have been given the opportunity to reflect and evaluate my life from a series of areas humanities has presented to me. Given that every angle one can approach the world from has its own value and significance when looking at our lives and the world we in, one subject has appealed most to me: the meaning of life. Life has a different meaning for everyone. Reading various works on what life means have engaged me to introspect…

The preferred action that I have chosen is the most morally justified because it does not involve the sacrificing of an individual in the anticipation of benefiting another individual. It also shows the rights of the patient being exercised, her ability to use her autonomy and make an informed decision. Dr. Brown is assuming that he understands Anna’s situation, and using that assumption to assert his values and perceptions onto her. The main argument for act Utilitarianism is happiness being an…

The main principle of Mill’s utilitarianism is the greatest happiness principle, which is defined as: actions are right insofar as they maximize general utility, which Mill recognizes as happiness (Cahn & Markie, 2009). He argues that happiness is the only source of morality and that people never desire anything but happiness (Cahn & Markie, 2009). Mill supports this claim by displaying that all other objects of people’s desire are either means to happiness, or included in the definition of…

Christopher Nolan, the genius behind the movie idea “Inception” created plot that blew people’s mind. Inception was the kind of movie that got people thinking and trying to unravel its complex twist while yet entertained and thrilled. The movie was to showcase a dream within a dream within a dream. Using the term “inception” itself is to place an idea into a characters subconscious while he’s dreaming. Basically the movie was the placement of a simple idea in someone’s head leading them to…

Dennis Prager, In the short paper “Equating Happiness with fun” discusses an essay he wrote arguing that happiness should not be equated with fun. Author mentions “as a friend once told me, I always assumed that if I could just accumulate enough fun experiences, I’d be happy,” He says that “most people believe happiness and fun are identical.” But they’re not the same because we all have a different definition of what happiness and fun is for example he uses “imagine a scene of happy people”…

If I had only five minutes to get to a job interview and I had to choose to press the button “Door Open” or “Door Close” for the two men thirty feet away pushing a large cart, I ought to press “Door Open.” According to Mill’s utilitarianism is “the creed which accepts as the foundation of morals “utility” of the “greatest happiness principle” holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness” (Cahn,114).Ethical…

Growing up, we have all experienced the pressures of utility. According to Jeremy Benthem, utility is defined as, “the property in any object, whereby it tends to produce benefits, advantage, pleasure, good or happiness, to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil, or unhappiness to the party whose interests is considered.” Today in more modern terms, we could call it people pleasing. It is from this principle where we get utilitarianism, a property that is characterized by the principle…

Mayor Immanuel Hope have the biggest desire to continue Joyland’s tradition in helping the children of Sorrowville and allowing homosexual couples to adopt will greatly improve the lives of the aboriginal children in need. In this essay, I will discuss why Mayor Hope should allow the adopting process using the theory of utilitarianism, kathian ethics and self-interest. One of Jeremy Bentham’s motivation for Hedonistic Utilitarianism was the ability to improve very poor living conditions of the…

Summer is Good, School is Bad Naturally, the human population glorifies the idea of a simple and defined struggle between one easily adored front and one easily hated opposition. “The war of good and evil is mightiest in mightiest souls, and even in the darkest time the heart will maintain its right against the hardest creed”(Froude 13), yet beyond the darkness around the heart lies a depth and complexity previously unexplored, and behind this creed is a motive unbeknownst to the heart and it’s…

For John Stewart Mill, the resolution of the case study considers the outcome of the moral decision and involves the weight of pain against pleasure, calculus, and a consideration to higher, elite pleasures. Mill’s utilitarianism is supported and influenced by Jeremy Bentham’s philosophy, both of which call for the weighing of the pleasures of an action against the pains of those actions. Furthermore, in making a moral decision, one should use calculus by simply taking a vote of the polis and…