Hedonism

The two moral theories we really took inspiration from is Ethical Egoism, and Utilitarianism. Ethical Egoism is serving your own self interests, and to be moral in this theory is to act in our own self interests, and is immoral not too. Utilitarianism is a theory that focuses on maximizing pleasure for the most amount of people, and minimizing pain for the most amount of people. The way Utilitarianism does this is by looking at the consequences for the action you are going to do. One was the…

The conclusion to Kant’s Aesthetics revolves around his conception behind the sublime. Kant proposes that all experiences of sublimity evoke the experience of pleasure within the individual experience the sublime. The pleasure derives from a negative liking within the person as they experience displeasure at the awareness of the limitations of their imagination, yet this results in pleasure at knowing the ability of our human reason (Kant, 1987). Kant’s characterisation of the sublime presents a…

What is realism? According to Peter Brooks, realism can take up various forms: realism as the visual, or realism as the ordinary aspects of life, or realism as the ugliest aspects of life, as long the message is conveyed. Which message? That of reality. What is reality then? “We have a thirst for reality, which is curious, since we have too much reality, more than we can bear.” (Brooks, 1). Do we in fact crave reality that much? But then as he explains, what we crave is not actually reality.…

The case of Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California elicits the concept of duty. Tatiana Tarasoff, a young, single woman is unaware that she is being stalked by her aggressive ex-lover. The ex-boyfriend Prosenjit Poddar, has been seeing a psychologist to deal with his grief from the break-up, and during a therapy session he makes an indication that he wants to teach his former lover a violent lesson. His psychologist becomes torn between preserving his patient’s confidentiality and…

Utilitarianism has quite few kinds of branches. Among them, the two types are the main branches, quantitative hedonistic utilitarianism and qualitative hedonistic utilitarianism. Each branche were founded by Jeremy Bentham and his student, John Stuart Mill. And I think Mill’s qualitative hedonistic utilitarianism is more reasonable than the others. Qualitative hedonistic utilitarianism is mainly about higher level of pleasure. He sorts out the pleasures by the level of feeling. As the basic of…

A Potential Answer For Every Situation (Draft) Critics against the utilitarianism are arguing that applying the principle of utilitarianism to the situation requires too much time, some outcomes by applying it are morally arguable, it urges violating of personal integrity, it allows being injustice to someone, and it’s no publicity that is very much disputing the moral principles. Louis P. Pojman, in the paper “Strengths And Weaknesses Of Utilitarianism,” clarifies the fundamental…

Utilitarianism seems to be most consistent with my own personal moral framework and perspective. One would think this particular theory would be one most medical professionals could relate too, especially nurses. Nurses being that we are always or should always be thriving to do the greatest good, the largest number of people within a community (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2014). The theory dates back to the early 19th century, and was founded by an English philosopher and social…

In act utilitarianism, you must perform acts that will create the highest overall amount of utility. Furthermore, in rule utilitarianism, one must follow the rules that will produce the greatest overall amount of utility. The position, called act utilitarianism is the first and most common version of utilitarianism and says that we should look at the consequences of each individual action when attempting to determine its moral worth. In contrast, rule utilitarianism lies in the fact that…

The elemental idea of Utilitarianism is that actions are morally right only if and because they produce the greatest good. The greatest good in this case pertains to taking in all the effects of the action, be they long or immediate, and taking in to account everyone that will be affected. The net effect of the action is then formulated by subtracting the sum of bad effects from the good. Furthermore, Utilitarianism is a doctrine that all actions should be judged in terms of their utility in…

Utilitarianism is a moral theory in which a “good action” takes into account the greatest overall happiness for the greatest number of people. The most essential feature of utilitarianism is that it is “a goal-oriented moral theory because it places all of its emphasis on the actual consequences of moral rules and principles, and insists that they be justified only by appeal to how happy they make us”. To further explain, utilitarianism justifies the actions and decisions made by focusing on the…