Christian hedonism

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…

1. Bentham believed that happiness is pleasure and pleasure is the highest good in life, and that an action is right if causes the greatest pleasure for somebody. I think Utilitarianism means whether or not an action will cause pleasure or pain. The best example that I can remembered it is to kill the fat man or save five lives? I will save the five people because I am going to minimized the pain of five families instead of one. I think he focused here in quantity of people that I am going to…

will attempt to make us perceive their own beliefs. In the play, Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, Shylock whom is a Venetian merchant made a deal with a Christian merchant named Antonio to fulfill the desires of his close friend “Bassanio”. Moreover, this Shakespearian play discusses the melancholic relationship between a Christian and Jewish in Elizabethan era. In Merchant of Venice, Shylock represents a character who mask reality due to three critical reasons.…

and even social media which say otherwise; they paint the ideal picture of what ‘Love’ is, in its many forms in popular culture. Fifty Shades of Grey is a renowned trilogy among the younger generation that explores a peculiar relationship between Christian Grey, a sex crazed Multimillionaire and Anastasia Steele, an inexperienced English literature college graduate. The start of their relationship is questionable on many grounds; does she understand the risk of this potential liaison and how it…

Learning to live a Christian life is one thing, but living out what we have learned is another story. As Christians, I think we have a greater responsibility because we know how the world should look, and we need to step up and lead the people around us. In order to share the gospel with others, we have to take a look at what God is calling us to do. Leading others consists of knowing what the Christian life looks like, sharing that with others, and staying faithful and truthful in what we say…

Colossians 3:8, “Anger, wrath, malice, slander.” (ESV Colossians 3:5) As Christian people, who intend to follow Christ, we sometimes do not really follow Christ. It is easy to say love your neighbor, meaning everyone. On the other hand, it is very hard to follow through with that. You really learn how much the Lord loves you when you try to love the person you really dislike. It is hard, and the Lord makes it look easy. Now as Christian people however, it should be easy for us too. But, after…