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    Peter Albert David Singer is an Australian moral philosopher who was born in 1946‚ one of his main goals is to end world poverty by donating to charities and convincing others to do the same‚ and he believes that affluent people should donate all disposable income to charity. Nel Noddings is an American philosopher born in 1929‚ and her view on ethics focuses on a natural sense of caring and a flexibility of principles‚ she rejects Singer’s argument saying that we have obligations to those around

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    monsters is very interesting to people. This sensation is because “monsters can stand as symbols of human vulnerability and crisis‚ and such they play imaginative foils for thinking about our own responses to menace” (Asma‚ 2016). The movie “ Dawn of the Dead” is a good example of how a group of people coexisting within a mall tries to deal with each other’s personalities and behaviors‚ and how they fight against the zombies in order to survive. Also‚ this movie is a reflection of how people would react

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    exhaustion caught up with her and her mind couldn’t think any longer‚ her uneasy stomach could no keep her up. She didn’t wake until the sun was bright. She sat up and looked around again as she hugged her knees. Which way should she walk? She decided walking in any direction was better than sitting here. So she crawled out‚ stood and headed back the way she had come. Sunlight streaked through the roof of the forest in beautiful beams of light. Sarah did enjoy the woods‚ she loved

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    to solving ethical problems within utilitarianism. Kantian theory follows the same principle but with greater emphasis on the respect for all things involved with ethical quandaries. Both have their critiques yet both ideas are conceived in an effort to understand and conceptualize some of the biggest controversies and questions that evolve around ethics. This paper will be an attempt to delineate the key components that fabricate each theory‚ first utilitarianism and then Kantian theory and through

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    of the topic raised is utilitarianism as the principle that holds inequality and distributive justice by Jeremy Betham (1748-1832). The idea is that the distribution of goods is just if and only if it maximizes aggregate utility (Reiss‚ 2013 p.256). Some critics were later discovered whether utilitarianism sustains the concept of distributive justice. Reiss for instance argued that utilitarianism ignores people’s right (p.261). Other conceptual difficulties of utilitarianism are that 1) the impracticality

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    Second Writing Assignment‚ PHILO 120 Professor Shelley‚ Tue/Thur 230pm Mill is an heir of an intellectual movement in England known as Utilitarianism; utilitarianism is concerned with the acquisition of pleasure and elimination of pain. John Stuart Mill follows the guidelines of utilitarianism in order to decide if certain actions are moral. Utilitarianism states that a person should perform the action that produces the most pleasurable outcome for every person involved. In order to accurately

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    classification of one’s actions. In Mill’s Utilitarianism‚ he examines what determines an action to be considered right or wrong‚ his own version of the hedonistic utilitarianism argument. He claims that these qualities‚ including the quantity‚ are an important factor in determining‚ when included in the consequences‚ the criteria of an action. The consequences are significant in determining the results of one’s actions. In the argument of utilitarianism‚ if the consequences of an action are good

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    “Shaun of The Dead” “Shaun of The Dead” is a zom-rom-com film directed by Edgar Wright and is set in a city in London. “Shaun of The Dead” is a ‘spoof’ of “Dawn of The Dead”. Wright uses lots of different techniques to make it humorous‚ such as stereotypical gags‚ classic British satires‚ subtle humour and many more. Edgar Wright conveys a sense of humour through the characters. The main character‚ Shaun‚ is not the typical character you would expect to try and save the world. Shaun

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    Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) developed his ethical system of utilitarianism around the idea of pleasure. John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) later furthered and many believe he improved Bentham’s theory (Mill is often linked to Rule Utilitarianism) but still followed many of his original ideas. The theory is based on ancient hedonism‚ which pursued physical pleasure and avoided physical pain. Hedonism saw human beings as “Under the governance of two sovereign masters of pain and pleasure.” So a key concept

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    Examine the key ideas of utilitarianism Utilitarianism is a relativist‚ consequentialist and teleological system of ethics based on the idea of ‘utility’. This means usefulness and utilitarian suggest that everyone should be the most useful thing. The theory was devised by Jeremy Bentham who said “an action is right if it produces the greatest good for the greatest number”. He believed human beings are motivated by pleasure and pain. Bentham lived in an era of great social and scientific change

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