J.E.B. Stuart

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…

heart. According to Bentham, the definitive moral standard is that of “utility,” requiring us to consider the consequences of an act (or a social policy) for all those affected by it. One of Bentham’s followers, nineteenth-century philosopher John Stuart Mill, would become the best-known proponent of this ethical approach (Ingulli, H. pg.…

There different ethical theories when it comes to ethics in healthcare. Three of those ethical theories would be consequentialism, non-consequentialism, and virtue ethics. First of all, consequential theory means that doing a morally right action is some type of action that will lead to the maximum balance of a good over something bad or evil. This theory can be judged by our actions and the consequences those actions may bring. The theory revolves around the idea that the rightness or wrongness…

Holden Gilbertson Philosophy 101 Dr. Fletcher RAP Assignment Kant Vs. Mill Mill believe that the consequences of actions determine its moral worth. While Both Philosophers have a good argument on the process of making decisions. Mill believes in utilitarianism and thinks that actions are based off of happiness. He believes the best action is the one that brings happiness to the most people. Kant believes that to perform an action it needs to be morally right and not just the most beneficial to…

situation? The conditions represented in the story demonstrate a drawback of utilitarianism. The basic idea of utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill lies on the principle that one must choose the course of action…

According to Ethics of Care, human life would be impossible without the care and support humans offer one another. Rather than focusing on rights and rules like most ethical theories, it merely suggests what should be done to achieve a positive outcome for everyone. Egoism is the view that each of us ought to pursue our own self-interest, regardless of the impact it will have on others. Egoism is at a similar level to Virtue Ethics in that it provides a self-centered conception of ethics because…

utility/ benefits than other acts. Under Utilitarianism, individuals do not merely look to their own pleasure, but are concerned with maximizing pleasure for all [“greatest happiness for the greatest number” principle] including future generations. John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), Bentham’s disciple, modified the theory by recognizing different human characteristics rather than placing equal values on ‘pleasures’ as goals. The basic idea of Utilitarianism is “actions are right in proportion as they…

Utilitarianism Bentham’s moral theory was founded on the assumption that it is the consequences of human actions that count their merit, and that the kind of consequence that counts for human happiness is just the achievement of pleasure and avoidance of pain. He argued that there is an easy way of calculating human actions, and it is done by considering how intensely pleasure is felt, how long it lasts, how quickly it follows upon the action, and how likely it is to avoid harm. Utilitarianism…

This paper discusses the harm principle and the sovereignty principle. It questions the harm principle validity on the grounds that some harm seems to be allowable, even though the principle denies man the right to harm another and then criticizes the sovereignty principle for being too broad. This paper concludes that the harm principle is the better of the two principles to base a legal system on, as it allows for more liberty than the sovereignty principle. The Harm Principle Mill claims…