Stuart Price

Utilitarianism A form of hedonist ethics known as Utilitarianism is the ethical system that follows the idea to pursue the greatest happiness for the greatest amount of people. This hedonist ethical system is a state of overall well-being and focuses on the intellectual, spiritual, and social aspects of happiness (Wilkens, 1995). Since the term utilitarianism derives from the idea of usefulness, so an action is deemed morally right if it succeeds or is useful in bringing about happiness.…

as one of the world’s most influential political manuscripts. Indeed, The Communist Manifesto was an attempt at explaining the underlying goals of communism, an ideology that contrasts heavily with the utilitarian views of English philosopher John Stuart Mill, who in 1859, published On Liberty, an application of utilitarianism to society and state. Evidently, Marx’s and Mill’s views leaned towards different ends of the political spectrum, although their opposing viewpoints did hold underlying…

This paper will endeavor to apply John Stuart Mill’s model of free speech to a situation brought to the forefront in an episode of TVO’s The Agenda, titled What is Wrong with Mark Steyn? The episode explores the issue of Maclean’s magazine refusing to publish a response to a series of articles by Steyn that were being viewed as hateful, as well as potentially harmful, to Muslim people in Canada. It will be argued that Mill would advocate for Maclean’s to publish a response to Steyn’s hateful…

The campus carry law refers to policies that allow appropriately licensed students and faculty to carry a handgun on campus as long as the gun is hidden from sight. Several states, including Texas, have passed a bill allowing campus carry; as a result, polarizing debates have ensued over the effectiveness of the law, or more specifically, whether campus carry is truly effective in decreasing gun violence on campus. In the article “How Guns Could Censor College Classrooms” the author, Firmin…

even if their views of feminism are slightly inaccurate. However, they likely do not know about many significant feminists in history. Three influential people that affected liberal feminism in their own ways are Mary Wollstonecraft as well as John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill. Before there can be an accurate understanding of how Wollstonecraft and the Mills contributed to liberal feminism, there needs to be a clear…

In the essay I am writing today I will be comparing utilitarianism; also called consequentialism, and Kantian ethical theories. The attitude towards what is right or wrong is what constitutes the basic difference between the two theories. Utilitarianism says an act is justified if the end result is happiness for all. The Kantian theory states that end does not justify means, and whatever we do inside our obligations is morally good. The dilemma I used for this essay was under the Paradigm #4…

Utilitarianism Utilitarianism is based on the idea that our moral worth of our actions is only determined by its involvement to overall utility in maximizing happiness or pleasure in society. It is, then, the total utility of individuals which is important here, the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people. “Utility, after which the doctrine is named, is a measure in economics of the relative satisfaction from, or desirability of, the consumption of goods.” (mustin, 2008) It seems…

Utilitarianism, on the other hand, states that actions are morally right or wrong depending on their consequences (Matti, 1994). Mill said: “Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness”. Ideally, if gene editing follows the rules of utilitarianism, it should be a technique that leads to the greatest happiness for the greatest amount of people (Matti 1994). The happiness such as: couples will no longer have to anxious about the possible genetic diseases. This positive motive…

LIBERTY This essay is a written accord of the theory of libertarianism, is liberty present in the current state of society, is it necessary to achieve peace or to reach a more enlightened society. How as liberty changed since its first conception, is freedom and liberty correlated or they 2 different concepts with similar ideals. What is liberty? What is freedom? What is independence? Then I ask you, are these necessary for peace, are there necessary for enlightenment. If you never had…

In the article, Why Smiles Generate Leniency, researchers Marianne LaFrance and Marvin A. Hecht, explore the smile-leniency effect. Their first objective is to see if different types of smiles affect the degree of leniency that is shown. The researchers define the smile leniency effect as the phenomena when "smiling can attenuate judgments of possible wrongdoing." They present some background research by Forgas supporting this effect which found that teachers were more lenient with students who…