Does The End Justify The Means? by Mortimer J. Adler‚ Ph.D. Does the end justify the means? Can it sometimes be right to use a bad means to achieve a good end? Don’t the conditions of human life require some shadiness and deceit to achieve security and success? First‚ let’s try to understand the sense in which the word "justifies" is used in the familiar statement that "the end justifies the means." After that we can consider the problem you raise about whether it is all right to employ
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Machiavelli is known for coining the phrase‚ “Ends justifying the means” in his book The Prince. This quote leaves us with the question‚ “is it worth it to reach a goal no matter what you have to do to get there?” Machiavelli believed that wrong deeds can be justified simply by having a good purpose for those actions but his theory is flawed‚ because no matter the end goal one should not try to reach it through evil actions. People are only to be excused if the means used to reach a certain objective are
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Means are more important than end This is a well- known proverb that we have heard many times. The ends are our goals and the means are the specific actions are take to achieve these goals. This proverb is often misleading as it gives the idea that we can achieve this goal through any means. I don’t think that the means is less important than the end. We all have so many goals to achieve. We also have our own ways of accomplishing it. Getting the desired result by any means is not at all correct
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questionable‚ but being that the ends are so positive‚ it would be futile to look at it otherwise. Plain and simple‚ the means are irrelevant if the ends are positive enough to trump them. Machiavelli defends these conclusions using both explicit and implicit language. Machiavelli states‚ “Therefore‚ a prince must not worry about the reproach of cruelty when it is a matter of keeping his subjects united and loyal…”. There he is using “the ends justify the means”. He’s saying that it is okay to
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his American dream‚ through illegal means. Through the portrayal of characters such as Jay Gatsby and Myrtle Wilson‚ coupled with their eventual demise of these characters that sought to achieve the American Dream‚ we are able to see the fact that Fitzgerald does not subscribe to the saying that the ends justify the means. Fitzgerald’s opinion on the end not justifying the means is clearly reflected through the main protagonist of the novel Gatsby. Gatsby’s “end”‚ was to achieve his American Dream
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come‚ with no end in sight? These were the questions that the American government had to ask themselves during World War II‚ when deciding on whether or not to use the atomic bombs that they had at their disposal. The weapon was eventually used‚ and while controversial‚ it was done with a good end in mind. The ends do‚ in fact‚ justify the means of war if the goal is good‚ and if the action being taken is not so morally wrong that there is no coming back from it. The phrase “The end justifies the
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Capital Punishment: Does the End Justify the Means? If... he has committed murder‚ he must die. In this case‚ there is no substitute that will satisfy the legal requirements of legal justice.There is no sameness of kind between death and remaining alive even under the most miserable conditions‚ and consequently there is no equality between crime and the retribution unless the criminal is judicially condemned and put to death." Immanuel Kant. About 2000 men‚ women‚ and teenagers currently wait
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or justified questionable acts because we thought the outcome was for the best interest of all parties involved. This action can be summed up with the statement “the end justifies the means”. This statement or doctrine originated in the writings of Publius Ovidius Naso who wrote Heroides (Van Wyk‚ 2007). The ends justify the means can be defined as a good outcome excuses any wrongs committed to attain it (The American Heritage Idioms Dictionary‚ 1995). We can see this justification be used in
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University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill A Risk-Benefit Analysis of Pesticide Use: Do the Ends Justify the Means? Humberto Bringas Envr 600: Environmental Health Dr. Courtney Woods 23 February 2014 The use of pesticides in agriculture has long been a highly controversial issue with numerous economic‚ social‚ and environmental costs and benefits. While an abundance of both costs and benefits do indeed exist‚ this paper will
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