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    In the Ethical Life‚ Russ Shafer-Landau talks about John Stuart Mill and his theory on Utilitarianism. Mill states that Utilitarianism is the most influential presentation of doctrine and agrees with the Utilitarian belief of which is ethical decisions should be based on the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people. But if this is true‚ then would people not act out of personal interest? Utilitarianism‚ as previously stated‚ is the belief of which ethical decisions should be based on

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    John Stuart Mills promotes a moral theory in his essay titled‚ ‘Utilitarianism‚’ by stating the best choice of action to take‚ when there are multiple options to choose from‚ is the action that produces the highest overall sum of happiness within a society. By applying this theory to the domain of war‚ one might instantly believe war is always the morally wrong choice. Utilitarianism focuses on the actual consequences of an action‚ and war brings about death‚ suffering‚ and multiple other negative

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    What Is Utilitarianism?

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    utilitarianism principle focuses on the happiness of the greatest number of people as a WHOLE. Happiness is a result that carries essential value and the absence of pain or the prevention thereof as a result is more desirable in the end according to John Stuart Mill. [1] Happiness‚ how is happiness defined in this context? Happiness is well-defined as the absence of pain with a desirable end of final good and vice versa. [2] The option to act out which produces a higher pleasure is most likely the preferred

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    need help‚ I believe that if one day when we need the help they will help us back. The example beneficence that we can act that is generous gift-giving‚ uncompensated public service‚ forgiving another’s costly error‚ and etc. In Utilitarianism‚ John Stuart Mill argues that “moral philosophers have left a train of unconvincing and incompatible theories that can be coherently unified by a single standard of beneficence that allows us to decide objectively what is right and wrong.” The principle of utility

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    John Stuart Mill’s notion of “higher pleasures” addresses the second objection to utilitarianism - that it reduces all values to a single scale (Sandel‚ 2009‚ p. 52). In the book it was mentioned that Mill tries to show utilitarians that they can distinguish

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    "good" consequences of the action.[1] It is thus a form of consequentialism‚ meaning that the moral worth of an action is determined by its resulting outcome. The most influential contributors to this theory are considered to be Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. Utilitarianism was described by Bentham as "the greatest happiness or greatest felicity principle".[2] Utilitarianism can be characterised as a quantitative and reductionist approach to ethics. It is a type of naturalism.[3] It can be contrasted

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    When Oliver North was asked to explain why he lied to congressional committees about his role in the Iran-Contra affair‚ he replied‚ "Lying does not come easily to me. But we all had to weigh in the balance the difference between lies and lives." Elsewhere in his testimony‚ North was asked about the false chronology of events he fabricated when preparing a summary of the government’s involvement in arms sales to Iran: Questioner: . . . You have indicated that. . . in your own mind . . . it was a

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    Why do athletes take performance enhancing drugs? There are many reasons. These range from the athlete being driven by the craving for success and the rewards that come with it‚ to the sheer desire to reach the goal that they set when they first started out in their sport e.g. win Olympic gold. The athlete may not be good enough to achieve these targets through the professional athlete lifestyle alone‚ and so turn to performance enhancing drugs in order to do so. From a philosophical point of view

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    seeing intentions‚ virtues or the fulfillment of rules as ethically important. Classical utilitarianism the two most influential contributors are Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. ‚ who receive happiness as the measure for utility‚ says‚ “Is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of good and evil” John Stuart Mill defines happiness as pleasure and absence of pain.

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    happiness is important and why people should value it. I believe that everyone should do what makes them happy. By this I mean that people should not do things because they want to please other people‚ but because that’s what they want to do. John Stuart Mill believes in the Greatest Happiness Principle‚ in which he says that our actions should be based on what will make the highest number of people happy. In his article‚ ‘Utilitarianism’ Mill writes‚ “But it is no means an indispensable condition

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