Utilitarian’s know little of love, but that does not mean they cannot sustain relationships. In C.S Lewis’s, “The Four Love’s”, he expresses, storge, philia, eros, and agape. Storge may be seen mostly as affection. This type of love does not require equality. It is the love that children have for their parents or an owner for his/her dog. Is it not true that utilitarian’s have parents and thus love them? Sadly, it is possible for someone not to love their parents; however it is not possible that every utilitarian’s alive not to love their parents. It is also possible for a utilitarian’s to deny the love of their pet, but again it is not possible for all utilitarian’s to deny love for their pet. Utilitarian’s however, may use their parents or
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This type of love requires equality. Friendship can be made through associations such as students who attend the same school, or work the same job. These types of friendships are not really friendships and may consist of people who are utilitarian’s because in many cases they do not go out of their way to make friends but rather befriend those who are of use to them. A student may befriend another student in order to help them study for a better grade in a class. An office worker may befriend another person at their job because it is convenient. However, in each of these situations, the friendship will most likely end once the students no longer have that class together, or once one worker gets a new job. These friendships are friendships of utilitarianism. The second kind of friendship involves a sort of intimacy. People who have these kinds of friendships experience the life with great happiness and often times find themselves feeling happy with life. In most cases those who follow the ways of Kant’s categorical imperative may experience this type of friendship with others because they do not see them as a means for their own pleasure, but instead see them as an end within itself. It is not possible for a utilitarian’s to have this type of friendship because that would mean that they are no longer a utilitarian’s and do not use people for their own means. It is possible however, for one person in a friendship to be a utilitarian’s and the other not to
This type of love requires equality. Friendship can be made through associations such as students who attend the same school, or work the same job. These types of friendships are not really friendships and may consist of people who are utilitarian’s because in many cases they do not go out of their way to make friends but rather befriend those who are of use to them. A student may befriend another student in order to help them study for a better grade in a class. An office worker may befriend another person at their job because it is convenient. However, in each of these situations, the friendship will most likely end once the students no longer have that class together, or once one worker gets a new job. These friendships are friendships of utilitarianism. The second kind of friendship involves a sort of intimacy. People who have these kinds of friendships experience the life with great happiness and often times find themselves feeling happy with life. In most cases those who follow the ways of Kant’s categorical imperative may experience this type of friendship with others because they do not see them as a means for their own pleasure, but instead see them as an end within itself. It is not possible for a utilitarian’s to have this type of friendship because that would mean that they are no longer a utilitarian’s and do not use people for their own means. It is possible however, for one person in a friendship to be a utilitarian’s and the other not to