Explain Utilitarian Ethics (25 marks) Utilitarian ethics is an expansive field of normative ethics that believes that the action that you take should be that which maximises utility‚ that is to say prospering and maximizing happiness whilst mitigating suffering or sadness as much as possible. Whilst it was once often considered a hedonistic field‚ there being one that argues pleasure being the only true‚ intrinsic good or aim‚ it is now more commonly referred to that of a consequentiality field‚
Free Utilitarianism
the political influence declared by the nobility and projected that all humans were liberated to act in whatever way they choose. Human beings act as free agents to make contracts with other humans to fulfill their civic and social duties. The utilitarian approach asserts that humans are principally driven by the idea to maximize their pleasure and diminish pain. The basic principle of the classist school of thought claims that human beings are free in their will to take up criminal activities on
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10/10/12 Test Period 3 The assessment was created to measure your ability to analyze how the author’s use of words created an angry and vengeful tone with an intense‚ scary and eerie mood. With his use of words he was able to make an angry tone which put a scary mood or feeling when a person reads the author’s abhor words. The author uses metaphors to show the tones and moods shown in his writing. A metaphor that shows mood is “The bow of God’s wrath is bent‚ and the
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As opposed to the utilitarian’s view‚ the morality of the action is not relevant if there is a good outcome‚ meaning what gives moral worth to an action are the consequences. There are some disadvantages and advantages to both Kant’s view and utilitarians’ views. Nonetheless‚ I think Kant’s views are preferable and more reasonable. One of the reasons I consider Kant’s view more reasonable is because actions are things we can control‚ we can decide to either do something good or bad‚ moral or immoral
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Deontological Theory of Ethics Introduction When ethics is explored‚ and an inquiry into its origin and sources are explored to find definition and clarity around ethics‚ one initial discovery will be that two main views on ethical behavior emerge. One of those theories is the deontological theory of ethics. Ethics and ethical decisions surround themselves around what is the goodness or badness of any particular choice or decision. When exploring ethics‚ it is necessary to explore what
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Immaneul Kant is an 18th century German philosopher who presented the modern deontological ethics with his theory of the categorical imperative. This theory argues that a moral action should not be tied to any condition and must be applicable by any reasonable being‚ so this action will be considered as a principle and a universal law
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The topic of abortion is a very controversial one and displays a moral dilemma that can be argued in various ways. Abortion involves the termination of an unborn fetus. Some reasoning behind getting an abortion procedure include: a mother being very young or feels that she is ill-equipped to take care of a new child; the embryo having a birth defect that will cause complications for the child’s life or for the delivery of the baby; the pregnant woman has been raped and does not want to deliver her
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September 23 2013 Brown Book Review Part One: What They Don’t Tell You A Survivor’s Guide to Biblical Studies by Michael Joseph Brown and published by Westminster John Know Press is a book that provides basic information about biblical criticism. Ultimately‚ it tries to motivate students to engage with the biblical text and contemporary biblical studies by illustrating how to approach academic biblical studies in a different way than which one would
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