John Greavu Professor Joan Tronto POL 1201 11 November 2013 Plato and John Stuart Mill: Valuations of Individual Well-Being with Regards to Social Standing In response to prompt #1: Mill and Plato share a belief in something like “higher pleasures.” As a result‚ despite their great differences‚ both are really trying to do the same thing. Both advocate for a society that allows elites to pursue their own interests‚ at the expense of others. The result is that both are trying to create a society
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having different thoughts on that‚ and they are going to come up with myriads of reasons to why they’ve come up with that answer. And for John Stuart Mill‚ everyone’s opinion matters‚ especially the ones with the unpopular opinion. John Stuart Mill was someone who believed that everyone‚ rich or poor‚ was entitled to their very own opinions. John Stuart Mill also believed that freedom of expression is valuable for two main reasons. The first reason would be
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Karl Marx was communism’s most zealous intellectual advocate. His comprehensive writings on the subject laid the foundation for later political leaders‚ notably V. I. Lenin and Mao Tse-tung‚ to impose communism on more than twenty countries. Marx was born in Trier‚ Prussia (now Germany)‚ in 1818. He studied philosophy at universities in Bonn and Berlin‚ earning his doctorate in Jena at the age of twenty-three. His early radicalism‚ first as a member of the Young Hegelians‚ then as editor of a newspaper
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written by John Stuart Mill‚ Mill presents the claim that happiness is the only thing that is good. Meaning that all happiness leads to pleasure through out our lives and can be noticed by the absence of pain. In this essay I will further explain Mill’s view on happiness and how it is connected to the Utilitarianism view. I will then define my own objection of Mill’s arguments and why it is a compelling objection to think about. II. Mill’s Arguments Through out “Utilitarianism” Mill‚ argues that
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The Harm Principle of John Stuart Mill For John Stuart Mill‚ he was a strong believer in utilitarianism. As he says in his essay‚ “...Liberty consists in doing what one desires.” (393). He believed that whatever may make somebody happy is what they should be allowed to do‚ as long as it did not infringe on anybody else’s rights in the process of practicing. This is the harm principle. Mill came up with a principle that states that a person should be lawfully allowed to do literally anything
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Principle”‚ is an ethical system that is heavily focused on by John Stuart Mill in his essay appropriately titled‚ “Utilitarianism”. In the essay‚ Mill adequately lays out the curriculum for utilitarianism and explains that the actions of being in the right are directly proportional to how much happiness is produced‚ and the actions of being in the wrong are directly proportional to how much they produce the reverse of happiness (Mill). Happiness produces pleasure while the reverse of happiness produces
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At the time when The Subjection of Women was written by John Stuart Mill (1869)‚ women rights were few‚ almost inexistent as the concept of woman was related to meekness‚ submissiveness‚ always in the place of pleasing the man and the community she belonged to. The essay brings arguments in favour of genders equality‚ exposing the mechanism of the system of an upon-agreed society which marginalizes everything that deviates from the norms of it‚ deconstructing the vision of the time regarding woman’s
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The essay titled “The Subjection of Women” is co-authored by John Stuart Mill and his wife Harriet Taylor Mill in 1869. The main argument in the essay is advocating for equality between the male and female genders. During the publication of this essay‚ it was regarded as an affront to the traditional European traditional values and norms that dictated the status of both men and women in the society (Mill 30). In the first chapter‚ Mill starts by enumerating the challenges he faced in pursuing
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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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used in reality. The English economist and political philosopher John Stuart Mill theorized about government and its role in protecting liberty under the framework of utilitarianism. He makes a persuasive argument that the method to achieve the greatest utility for society to achieve the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people is through not restricting but instead promoting the liberty of individuals. John Stuart Mill makes a convincing
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