Rule utilitarianism

Ethics is the study of morality, judgment and their relations. Within Ethics there are many ethical theories including Kantianism and Utilitarianism. Immanuel Kant believes in Kantianism, which is where the name comes from and theorists like Bentham and Mill believe in Utilitarianism. Moral theorists use their ways of thinking to aid everyday actions and situations; they even use their theories to take their side on moral issues. Kantianism is the theory began by Immanuel Kant. According to…

Mill tells us in his Autobiography that the “little work with the name” Utilitarianism arose from unpublished material, the greater part of which he completed in the final years of his marriage to Harriet Taylor, that is, before 1858.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…

Besides, cultivating the philosophical ethics and treating others as we want to be treated (golden rule) can aid to minimize the complexity of this issue (Wattles, 1997). For example, if we consider ourselves in the situation of a customer, would we like our information to be leaked out and our privacy interrupted? The architecture of the database and…

Temperance and Transcendence Temperance is a terminology used to refer to character that manifests self-constraint and self-regulation in the control and management of one. Temperance is a virtue that is generally associated with protective traits. The virtue of transcendence is associated with strengths of meaning which allow one to connect to the larger universe. The meaning of life can be derived from virtue. Together, these transcendent virtues aid people in control of emotions and impulses…

Subjective relativism is the moral perspective implying that if an individual approves of an action, it is then directed to be moral. For example, an individual can say “X is right,” and someone else can assert that “X is wrong”. When applying subjective relativism to the situation, it justifies that action X is both right and wrong. Suggesting that it can be right for a particular person but wrong for another. Thus, when deciphering whether something is moral or not, it is correlated to…

Whilst psychology investigates the growth of different types of character, ethics considers the relative value of such types and the virtues which constitute them. The problem of the true moral ideal is a question of the relative value of different types of character. The effect on the person’s character of a particular form of conduct is a universally accepted as a test of its moral quality. Different systems of ethics emphasize different virtues in constituting the ideal moral character. With…

1. Do you agree with Alice’s recommendations about what Wilson needed to work on? Why or why not? - I agree about what Alice’s recommend to Wilson because this could help him go out in his comfort zone and communicate with others. In order to get what Wilson want he needs to help himself to overcome this kind of situation. He will not stay in his comfort zone forever so he needs this recommendation. 2. What are Wilson’s strengths and weaknesses based on his current performance? - His strengths…

2.1.2 Submission - Speaker 2 The honourable chairman, I speaks as the second speaker for the motion of Man-made law are more superior to Divine law. Therefore, I would stand on the position that Divine law are superior to Man-made laws. The first submission is that man-made laws are made with personal desire of the maker or enacter. Man made laws may be implemented in an unjust manner by corrupted person, Lord Acton had once stated “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.…

1) What is the definition of " opportunity cost”? Give an example (2 points). Opportunity cost is the best alternative someone gives up after making a choice. An example of this can be skipping breakfast to get some extra minutes of sleep. Rather than waking up a couple of minutes before to get breakfast and avoid starving, I decided to sleep in. Breakfast was the opportunity cost of my choice. Another example can be saving money for university. Rather than saving that money for the future,…

This essay will set out to prove that Mill’s belief that our moral imperative is to maximize net happiness without accounting for equal distribution, regardless of certain individuals’ happiness, is incorrect. It will be shown that Mill’s argument system for deciding this is flawed, and that it lacks vital definitions that determine the basis of the argument. This essay concludes that without these proper definitions for happiness or pleasure, and without a way of quantifying these, it is…