Hip-hop can be described as a culture or way of life for a society of people who admire and love rap‚ breakdancing‚ deejaying‚ and graffiti. During the seventies‚ hip-hop was mainly the act of the DJs showing off their turntable skills‚ but it wasn’t until the late seventies and early eighties when rap‚ breakdancing‚ and graffiti started to make a name for themselves. Hip-hop is not only one of the most popular genres of music‚ but it also focuses on the poor or working class by putting an emphasis
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The 17th century philosopher John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) is greatly known for his description and defense of the classical utilitarianism theory‚ following the teachings of his father‚ James Mill‚ and philosopher Jeremy Bentham. Bentham based his utilitarianism philosophy on the principle that the object of morality is the promotion of the greatest happiness of the maximum number of members of society. He then added on that the happiness of any individual consists in favorable balance of pleasures
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The 1970s in many ways were a continuation of the 60s‚ there were confusion‚ civil disorder‚ and growing violence. Many more Americans aligned themselves with the protesters against the ongoing war in Vietnam. The fight for equality for African Americans‚ Women‚ Native Americans‚ gays and lesbians continued. The criminal actions of President Richard Nixon significantly diminished the American citizen’s abiding faith in their government and political leaders. The multitude of social issues that relentlessly
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1. According to Kant‚ we should never treat anyone merely as a means. Therefore we should not lie to someone even if that means that we may prevent 5 other people from being used as mere means. This is because the categorical imperative is principle-based and not utilitarian. The categorical imperative states that you should “act only on the maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law”. Lying is bad and can never be universalized because if it were‚ there would
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strange and mysterious thing‚ something we still do not fully understand. Exploring these ideas given by Faulkner and De Beauvoir are essential to trying to understand the nature of humans and our relationship to not only self but others. I found the Ethics of Ambiguity to put into words some ideas that we have a hard time explaining. De Beauvoir does a great job explaining that ambiguity between an individual’s past
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which we addressed are Kantian Ethics‚ Utilitarianism‚ and Virtue Ethics. A strong argument could be made for each theory‚ but one sticks out as the best and most reasonable theory of ethics. Kantian Ethics is the best universal theory of ethics‚ as it allows for individual rights and is specific enough to follow. Kantian ethics stresses individual rights‚ reason‚ and motivation for actions. Immanuel Kant believed that each person
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The classical theories of morality are Aristotle’s perspective called Nicomachean Ethics‚ the Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant‚ and the Theory of Utilitarianism morality by John Stuart Mill. These classical theories create the basis of morality and moral argument. Utilitarianism is an ethical theory regarding the greater good. It rationalizes; the actions a person makes in their life and says they should be directed towards achieving the greatest happiness for
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experience and it insisted on the freedom and the autonomy of the individual” (Wolf). The philosophy of existentialism‚ and one of its greatest philosophers Jean Paul Sartre‚ were the motivation and inspiration to the arts and humanities during the 1940’s and 1950’s. First allow me to elaborate on the definition of existentialism and France at the start of 1940. Existentialism is a philosophical movement oriented toward two major themes‚ the analysis of human existence and the centrality of human choice
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During the Enlightenment‚ English Philosophers John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) and Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) were leading propers of Utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is the belief that a morally good action is the one that helps the greatest amount of people and produce the greatest amount of happiness‚ for the greatest amount of people. John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham were known as utilitarians‚ they believe “that actions are right in the proportion as they tend to promote happiness‚ wrong as they
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Industries were still standing in America; they were actually richer and more powerful than before World War I. So what was so different in the 1930’s? The Great Depression replaced those carefree years into ones of turmoil and despair. The decade after the First World War saw tremendous change. Progressivism was a leading factor of World War I and in the 1920’s the evidence can be seen. Industries were making their products at an increasing rate. Products that were not populous before World War I were
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