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    PFC Ashe‚ Thomas Charlie 447 Signal Battalion Fort Gordon‚ GA February 1st‚ 2014 Importance Of Following Orders In order to be successful in any career one must be able to listen and take to heart the importance of what they are learning and doing throughout their lives; this has significance in both the military and civilian life. In order to do that you must follow whatever your superiors say‚ like when you are at your civilian job and your boss tells you to clean the

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    of the topic raised is utilitarianism as the principle that holds inequality and distributive justice by Jeremy Betham (1748-1832). The idea is that the distribution of goods is just if and only if it maximizes aggregate utility (Reiss‚ 2013 p.256). Some critics were later discovered whether utilitarianism sustains the concept of distributive justice. Reiss for instance argued that utilitarianism ignores people’s right (p.261). Other conceptual difficulties of utilitarianism are that 1) the impracticality

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    in their daily lives. These theories set out guidelines which help to determine the rightness or wrongness of any given action and can therefore illuminate which choice would be morally beneficial. And while many of these theories differ substantially‚ most have at least one common underlying principle‚ namely that humans deserve to be treated with a certain level of respect. This idea comes from the belief that all humans have interests which are significant enough to be considered‚ hence no one should

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    The primary objective of utilitarianism is to provide the greatest amount of happiness‚ or utility‚ for the most sentient beings possible (Boss 234). Additionally in utilitarianism‚ the morality of an action is determined only by its consequences. In other words‚ intentions are meaningless (Boss 234). Personally‚ I do not agree with the utilitarian notion that intentions don’t matter because no one can predict the consequences of their actions 100 percent of the time. For instance‚ most people would

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    harming us and destroying all insects. by micro waves which are beaming down from the sat lites .  and specially the cell phone which we are using all over the day. the sadvantages of electronic media is that .it is harming us and destroying all insects. specia the disadvantages of electronic media is that .it is harming us and destroying all insects. by micro waves which are beaming down from the sat lites .  and specially the cell phone which we are using all over the day. the sadvantages of

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    Utilitarianism versus Egoism Taken from the ideals of normative ethics‚ traditions stemming from the late 18th and 19th centuries‚ John Stewart Mill and Jeremey Bentham conclude that an action is right if it in turn promotes happiness and an action is bad or wrong if it produces the opposite effect of happiness. They both conclude that the actions of these individuals will affect not just the individual themselves but it will affect that of everyone involved by the decision made. Utilitarianism

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    CASE ANALYSIS The case primarily deals with the current Indian political scenario and it describes how the Indian democracy is undergoing a period of crisis and renewal. New forms of protest movements have started taking form .The recent rise of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)‚its surprising success in the Delhi Assembly elections of December 2013 ‚ and the short-lived but dramatic episode of Arvind Kejriwal acting as Delhi’s Chief Minister have some of its roots in the earlier anti-corruption protest

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    PRETEXT WORK 1. Read the Personal Note to answer the following questions: ✓ What do you know about le Mari de France? ✓ When was the given story written? ✓ What do you know about the literature of that period? 2. Read the following text: "It is not known whether it is a work of imagination but it is probable that love topics were discussed in social gatherings at the courts of great ladies in the medieval epoch. The following rules called Art of Courtly Love were set fourth and

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    from the Qur’an and hadith‚ as is also the case with a second type of knowledge‚ that of general Islamic ethical principles to do good‚ avoid evil‚ cooperate with others in good works‚ and so forth. Every Muslim can take these general principles‚ which form the largest and most important part of his religion‚ from the Qur’an and hadith. The third type of knowledge is that of the specific understanding of particular divine commands and prohibitions that make up the shari’a. Here‚ because of both

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