Some people seem to thrive on figuring out the unknown‚ and I’m one of them. That‚ perhaps‚ is why I fell so immediately in love with Arthur Conan Doyle’s universe of Sherlock Holmes. Opening my first Holmes book‚ A Study in Scarlet‚ and becoming enthralled with the characters‚ the language‚ and the mystery‚ was a turning point in my life. “The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes‚” Holmes said in The Hound of the Baskervilles. The quote might seem condescending
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The tv episode “A Study in Pink” with Sherlock Holmes is a great mystery story for the people that enjoy mysteries. Benedict Cumberbatch does a magnificent job of playing the role of Sherlock Holmes. As well as Martin Freeman also does a great job of playing Dr. Watson. The show itself was well played and directed by Paul McGuigan. Overall the tv show was amazing and keeps your attention at all times. In the episode “A Study in Pink” Dr. Watson is introduced to Sherlock Holmes before the third
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John Stuart Mill begins his argument for utilitarianism by convincing us that‚ without a measure for determining moral value‚ we cannot accurately hold ourselves responsible as our own moral agents. In response to this concern‚ he outlines a moral code based on the principle of utility. As a promoter of the highest presence of pleasure and lowest presence of pain‚ Mill continues on to argue that the ultimate end is happiness‚ with all other actions and intentions having value only so far as being
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Act and Rule Utilitarianism There are a lot of differences and similarities between act and rule utilitarianism. Act utilitarian supports the principle of utility must be applied to each individual situation. The rightness or wrongness of an action is determined by its usefulness. This was Bentham’s idea when he established that pleasure and pain was important qualities for determining what was morally right or wrong. With Act Utilitarianism‚ you must decide what action will bring the greatest
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Calculating Consequences: A Student Refutation of Utilitarianism Erik Z. Hallworth San Francisco State University Utilitarianism is a consequentialist theory holding that moral actions are based on the maximization of overall happiness‚ defined as the Utility Principle. Mill and Bentham ’s utilitarianism makes a plausible and convincing argument‚ though not everyone agrees with it. Bernard Williams writes Utilitarianism: For and Against the theory
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John Stuart Mill would agree that the United States should institute a socialized health care system. He championed the idea of Utilitarianism where society should provide the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people. Health is what allows a person to operate and be a functional member of society. It is also within the best interest of the US to give more people the ability to work in supporting one another. Utilitarianisms main idea is the wellness of all people. Access to healthcare
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John Stuart Mill‚ in his autobiography‚ “A Crisis in My Mental History: One Stage Onward” (1909-14)‚ argues that happiness can only be obtained by focusing on something other than your own happiness and to not expect something bigger than what you could actually get. He supports his claim by first describing his previous thoughts that just not thinking about your own happiness will make you happy‚ then showing how his thoughts changed‚ then describing why he changed his thoughts‚ and finally explaining
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Bentham’s panoptic paradigm is mostly overlooked in the field of surveillance since this idea is principally understood through the lenses of Michel Foucault’s “Panopticism”. In the 1970s‚ the latter wrote a book titled “Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison”. Built on Bentham’s Prison Panopticon‚ he reconstructed the architecture of a Panopticon into a social theory that depicts an all-seeing party/organization that has the capacity to observe anyone‚ anytime (Foucault‚ 1977). He then extended
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In this paper‚ I will argue for the truth of utilitarianism. In my opinion‚ the most interesting version of utilitarianism is hedonistic utilitarianism. It is the most interesting because it defies logic and rationale in favor of impulsion decision making. Hedonistic utilitarianism is the most interesting version because it is tied more intrinsically into the wellbeing of an organism‚ specifically humans‚ than any other alternatives of utilitarianism. Other forms of utilitarianism are wide-ranging
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An analysis of the Importance of Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics on Contrast to Mill’s Pleasure Principles in Utilitarian Philosophy This philosophy paper will discuss the importance of Aristotle’s argument for virtue ethics in contrast to Mill’s Utilitarian theory on the happiness of the individual. Mill’s theory of happiness is dependent on the happiness of the individual‚ as long as that individual does not harm other people in society. For example‚ the happiness of an individual is perfectly acceptable
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