Utility

Frankie Martinez Professor Mittendorf Philosophy 191 3 November 2017 This paper is about Gender Neutral Bathrooms and how Utilitarianism views it. I feel like Utilitarianism would say that the happiness of the people who struggle with which bathrooms to use and the new changes that will come along with this fight will be better over the content feelings for the separate bathrooms. In this paper I will argue that the ethical theory Utilitarianism would back up the idea of Gender Neutral…

Friendship is an easy thing to get, but it is not an easy thing to maintain. In book VIII of Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle explains the meanings and purpose of friendships by breaking it down into three categories. The categories are utility, pleasure, and moral character which arise through perceived or actual good. All types of friendships are determined by mutual feelings of goodwill towards each other. Once those feelings disappear then there is no longer any connection between the two…

My Work Paper SImply speaking, my work looks like a combination of material consideration, modern iterations of historical motifs, utility, and original inspiration. My objects are made, predominantly, out of wood with occasional use of metal and plastic. Traditionally speaking my objects are a product of a fluid process. I have an idea in mind when I start, I look at images or have a moment of imagination that is the impetus, then I make sketches. As I work, the limitations of the material,…

diminishing marginal utility. The law of diminishing marginal utility states that, “at some point, as one continues to consume a good, the satisfaction obtained from that good will always start to decrease” (O’Sullivan, Sheffrin, & Perez, 2008). Miranda has been consuming chocolate ice cream for about two weeks, and the satisfaction she originally obtained from the ice cream has been slowly increasing at a decreasing rate. One could say that Miranda has reached maximum marginal utility, or…

Marginal utility, which is the idea of consuming only just what satisfies a consumer’s needs and no more, is at its surface level accessible but whose implications are far more alarming (“Marginal Utility”). This principle is initially articulated in Singer’s critiques of the lack of giving to charity on the individual level. He believes that the individual…

hours) may have some positive effect(1110, 1111). 5. Self-help groups and 12-step-oriented treatments The effectiveness of AA, per se, has not been evaluated in randomized studies. However, other sources of information provide growing support for the utility of AA and 12-step-oriented treatments (259, 261, 956, 958, 959) as well as the efficacy of professional therapies such as TSF that are aimed at motivating patients to participate in AA (43, 219, 265, 267, 269). In addition, a large number…

al., 2013). There are two assumptions crucial to the utility of this model. Firstly, patients who are less severe will respond better to treatment, and secondly, these treatments will be milder (McGorry, Hickie, Yung, Pantelis & Jackson, 2006). If this model can be applied to schizophrenia, it suggests we can increase the benefits of receiving a diagnosis will be significantly improved. For the clinical staging model to provide increased utility than the DSM-5, the effectiveness of early…

A battlefield mercy killing is where a soldier kills someone because they are suffering, likely to die, or unlikely to have a high quality of life while they are on the battlefield. Battlefield mercy killings are illegal in almost every society and condemned as murder. Despite the illegality, evidence suggests that they happen and with some regularity but go unreported. In antiquity, abdominal injuries were fatal, even well into the 20th century abdominal injuries were fatal unless treated…

In John Stuart Mill’s book Utilitarianism, he explores what exactly it means to reach an end and how that end results in pleasure. Mill explains the importance and advantages of utilitarianism while also responding to misunderstandings about it. He believes in the greatest happiness principle and that if a society benefits from the impairment or disappointment of another because of a lack in obtaining a higher faculty, then this is okay because it is hedonic, in that it maximizes pleasure. Mill…

heuristic? (7) Is the theory useful in practice? As with Walsh’s qualities, any theory that does not generate a desired response to all of Knefelkamp’s questions for utility when evaluated, will have limited utility. For example, a theory that is based on a population of white men of a high socioeconomic status, then the model may have low utility for a population of racially minoritized women of a low socioeconomic status, due to the different experiences and social contexts between the two…