discovery dispute, we are providing the following supplemental responses and will further supplement if additional responsive information is obtained as discovery progresses. In further response and without waiving any of the previous objections, including objections as to attorney-client privilege and work product documents, Plaintiff provides the following and supplements its responses to Third-Party Defendant’s First Interrogatories and Requests for Production under separate cover.…
benevolently lying infringes the autonomy of the one who is deceived. Then, his lists out two possible objections of his claim. One of the objections is that an agent needs to lie in order to make the deceived one living autonomously. This objection implies that telling the truth can sometimes infringe others’ autonomy, so a benevolent lie is needed in these situations. I think that this objection successfully provides a reason to make benevolent lies permissible, since telling the truth can…
outcome, stimulating our sensory receptors with accomplishment, sense of worth, value, failure or guilt. It is ones search for happiness that is ever so indefinable, being the ever elusive feeling of content. Whether through hedonism, intuitive objections or consequentialism, the greatest happiness principle is useful in determining what I ought to do. First let’s examine hedonism. According to Professor Mulgan it is known that “utilitarians were all, in different ways, hedonists (61).…
example) does not possess the knowledge of what those symbols actually mean. The Chinese room argument has gained an incredible amount of traction in the philisopher community, and as such it has faced numerous objections. “The Systems Reply” is perhaps one of the strongest of these objections. What that reply suggests is that while it is correct that the…
argue that saving two lives at the cost of one has more utils than having two die to save the life of one. An utilitarian who isn’t in favor of this system would be considered an absolutist since it involves killing the innocent. Harris gives many objections…
case consciousness (Shoemaker D, 2016). In this essay I will argue that Locke’s original memory criterion is the correct account of personal identity. To do this I will refer to the merits of Locke’s criterion as well as to various objections with two main objections being that identity seems to persist through loss of memory…
/ Jeremy Bentham hedonistic value theory: Act Utilitarianism. I’m going to consider the objections to Act Utilitarianism commitment to neutrality and the equal consideration of interests. Arguing that these objections are sufficed in disregarding the nature of Act Utilitarianism viability as a moral theory. However I will induct a constructive alteration that emancipates Act Utilitarianism from these objections. Act Utilitarianism “Substantial part of your moral thinking is basically…
1. It is important, before looking at the argument of the badness of death, to understand the difference between intrinsic and relational features of something, as this plays a role in understanding Nagel’s account of death and the objections that can be made against it. Intrinsic features are “features of something that are independent of its relation to other things or events.” Relational features, on the contrary, are “features that something has in relation to some other thing or event.”…
He proposes that those things which were once seen as evidence of design and purpose can now be explained using evolution. His objections to these arguments are based on the claim that “genuine indisputable examples of design or purpose are needed” to “get the proof going” and that no such examples exist . Again, McCloskey is setting the bar unreasonably high by asking for indisputable…
belief that war would damage his soul for having to kill other men. Instead of claiming belief in a Supreme Being, Seeger cited philosophers such as Plato, and Aristotle. His statements were honest, sincere, and made in good faith, but because his objection was not a “belief in a relation to a Supreme Being,” his exemption was denied. Seeger refused…