Utility

The costs savings and additional revenue generated from a positive customer relationship have proven to be a valuable resource. These loyal customers can offer a business a constant customer base, more frequent purchases, higher profit margins, and a group of peer-trusted supporters who voluntarily market the firm to prospective customers (Reichheld and Sasser, 1990). Additionally, evidence shows it costs much more to attract a new customer to a business than to get a current one to purchase…

Aristotle’s point of view on friendship we can infer that a child-parent relationship may fall in the category of a virtuous friendship because of Cordelia’s choices and self-values; while in contrast, is her sisters’ relationship with her father as utility relationships. Niko Kolodny, author of “Which Relationships Justify Partiality? The Case of Parents and Children”, says that a child’s responsibility will only take place if the parent has met their responsibility (60). When…

A mixed dimensional-categorical approach will be necessary to account for individual differences on the symptoms when a disorder is present. This new approach increases clinical utility by engaging higher diagnostic reliability and validity and has gained much support in the mental health and research community (Andrews et al., 2009; Jones, 2012; Krueger, Skodol, Livesley, Shrout, & Huang, 2007; McEvoy, Watson, Watkins, & Nathan…

Moral rule is not a determining factor for the rightness or wrongness of an action, but the consequence of the action is. As Bentham says, “By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question: or, what is the same thing in other…

intrinsic value to humanity. Importantly, its supporters believe that everyone's happiness matters equally, regardless of social status, wealth, or other superficial values, and in fact, people should always act to maximize overall happiness, or utility, for everyone (Gaskill, 2005). Furthermore, utilitarianism falls under the category of consequentialism, as a decision must always depend on its consequences to determine whether it was right or wrong. Indeed, it is only right if it brings about…

Law is a system of rules that are enforced through social institutions to govern behaviour. Its main purpose is to protect the rights of individuals. Philosophers play a key role in law because they represent ancient, historical, and contemporary attitudes, and influenced jurisprudence and contemporary legal thought worldwide. Four of the many philosophers who influenced law are Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jeremy Bentham, and John Stuart Mill. This paper will discuss the similarities and…

that actions are morally good in so far as they promote utility” (Restrepo, 09.05). In other words, utilitarianism produces optimistic or the greater good. Every day we all make personal moral decisions that make us utilitarian; hence it also allows us to promote the greatest happiness for our peers. Another way to understand utilitarianism is to understand that “Utilitarian’s determine morally good actions by appealing to the principle of utility”, which is a principle of promoting the…

I will argue that Utilitarianism will never be seen as the correct moral philosophy and with good reason. Throughout this paper, I will be talking about the Trolley Problem developed by British philosophy Philippa Foot in 1967. This problem, in its simplest form, is deciding whether it is more morally correct to passively kill five people or actively kill one person. For the purposes of my depiction of it, the notion of actively versus passively killing someone will not be relevant for the…

already in school for nine months, some students use their summer to work, make money, and enjoy life. The school would have rising cost, electricity bills, the schools budget, etc. Also for the schools sake, what about rising costs, electricity bill, utilities, or even running out of money for the whole year. My second to last point is that what about scheduling options, babysitters, day care, and parents can’t just drop everything to watch their kids, they have jobs too. My last major…

To start off this major critical reflection journal, I will start out defining “our community” as the city of Rochester in the state of Minnesota just to narrow done the topic in order to reflect on what is happening. Two of the topics that I can remember being discussed in class during Module 2 is homelessness and housing. How housing is really expensive in Rochester and how the homelessness problem may not be as visible to people living in Rochester but there are homelessness people all around…