Intrinsic cognitive load

there are two general kinds of values; instrumental value or intrinsic value. In John Mill’s argument, he argues that things having intrinsic value should be what we pursue in life to live a good one. In particular Mill’s term happiness as being the only intrinsically value. Mill’s defines happiness being intrinsically valuable, because it is valuable within itself and not for its use; which matches the definition for something to hold intrinsic value. I will outline Mill’s argument of the…

Utilitarianism is a branch of metaethics that focuses on the ideas of consequences, self interest, and unbiasedness. Instead of determining if an action is moral through the immediate effects, Utilitarianism skimps over the short term and instead focuses on the long term effects of actions. Actions are no longer based on intention but, rather the overall effects from those actions determines if the parent event was morally good or bad. Utilitarianism also emphasizes the idea that an individual’s…

Nicomachean Ethics: Why Friendship is Essential and Not Fickle In book VIII of Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle expounds upon the concept of friendship. In order to understand all that Aristotle means by friendship one must first know that there are three categories of friendship: friendship of utility, friendship of pleasure, and the perfect friendship. After analyzing the paradigms of each of these relationships he comes to the conclusion that friendship is crucial to life. He declares: “For…

“Things Have Changed” –Panic! At the Disco Many people believe your worldview stays very close to what you were raised with. Parents are definitely huge sponsors when it comes to forming your worldview, but many other people and occurancesthings can act as sponsors and change your views. Curiosity is a wonderful thing when it comes to expanding your worldview and I’ve always been very curious. If I see an article title that sounds even remotely interesting, I absolutely have tomust click on it.…

Mill tells us in his Autobiography that the “little work with the name” Utilitarianism arose from unpublished material, the greater part of which he completed in the final years of his marriage to Harriet Taylor, that is, before 1858. For its publication he brought old manuscripts into form and added some new material. The work first appeared in 1861 as a series of three articles for Fraser’s Magazine, a journal that, though directed at an educated audience, was by no means a philosophical…

Using the ethical theories of utilitarianism and Kant’s categorical imperative, analyze the ethics of Abercrombie & Fitch in restricting hiring of sales personnel primarily to attractive white people. Fr discussion purposes, assume that they actually were practicing racial discrimination. In the video we watched pertaining to Abercrombie & Fitch there is a hiring process and which searchers for an All-American image in a way that can be seen for practicing racial discrimination. While…

in Default Hedonism to measure net worth of pleasure and pain. These two units are hedons and dolors. As previously mentioned, a hedon is one unit of pleasure, and a dolor is one unit of pain. So when one experiences an episode of pleasure, the intrinsic value of that episode is equal to the number of hedons in that episode. The same can be applied to an episode of pain. To further break down this claim, Feldman says that experiencing more intense pleasures is better than experiencing less…

Going through this survey I did not think that there would be very many cases where I would consider myself unethical, but there was one and I want to discuss it first. It was the one about the car insurance. This has actually happened to me before and I claimed the maximum amount even though I did not even plan to repair my vehicle. It was a small dent on my vehicle and some repair shop estimated it to be around $1000 to fix. I being a college student immediately thought that this could really…

Immanuel Kant is most notably known as the man whose ideas on morality have greatly shaped the landscape of Ethics. Perhaps most important is his concept of rational humans having inherent dignity, but is this philosophy still true today and if so is it still relevant in a society that has so many more facets in a world far more complex than the time he lived. By introducing and explaining Kant’s concept of inherent dignity and showing how some people or groups of people have been at the both a…

Christian Cruz ERWC Mr. Cagley 28 October 2015 .The Value of Life Everyone has their own unique way of viewing life, some may cherish it and others may want to dispose of it because it has no meaning to them. The ones who do not see any value in life are ones who have not yet discovered his/her true calling or purpose. Those people tend to be pessimistic, negative, and hopeless when dealing with everyday life and the situations in life. On the other hand, ones who do see the value in life are…