John Atta Mills

Jeremy Bentham is a teleological/consequential philosopher or consequentialist, one who focuses on the consequences and ends instead of intention and actions. Bentham’s focus carries more weight than that of Immanuel Kant or John Stuart Mill and their views. Jeremy Bentham’s philosophy focuses on measuring pain and pleasure for the greatest number of morally significant beings through their actions. Bentham presents guidelines that measure the intensity, duration, (un) certainty, propinquity, fecundity

their own and for their own reasons but come together to get it. "The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we don't deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it." (John Stuart Mill) Whether it is Huck wanting to run away from forceful civilization from Widow Douglas. Or Jim fearing that he was going to be sold again and losing the chance to be and to see his family anymore. On multiple occasions throughout the story they

John Stuart Mills “Harm principle” states that the only actions that can be prevented are ones that create harm. In other words, a person can do whatever he wants as long as his actions do not harm others. If a person's actions only affect himself, then society, which includes the government, should not be able to stop a person from doing what he wants. This even includes actions that a person may do that would harm the person himself. A example that I can provide to support this principle is murder

By not allowing speech that is racially bigoted or offensive on campus we are sending the message that that behavior and ideology is not accepted in the public sphere, we are not allowing it to become a norm, and are thus discouraging and alienating those that want to use that kind of harmful language. Delgado writes, “ When social pressures and rewards for racism are absent…. prejudiced persons may even refrain from discriminating behavior to escape social disapproval,” (148). We can see examples

been part of a process to attain true freedom. However, what is true freedom? John Stuart Mill and Georg Hegel tackle this notion of freedom. Mills states that freedom is when individuals have unlimited liberty, while Hegel says that is a false freedom. He states that freedom is when the individual’s morals align with external laws within the nation state. Despite what many say freedom is more similar in Hegel’s and Mills than different. We can see this through Hegel’s notion of absolute mind and Mill’s

As an individual, we often ask are self-question that stand out to us. Some question may relate to are love life, family, and are social environment. Most philosophers often call it self-knowledge or knowledge of your own mind. Is it that important too or is it like knowledge of a baseball batting averages like a trivial knowledge that isn’t of much use in the daily life. Image yourself having to take a big exam the next day but you forgot to study and you fail the exam. There still time to drop

justified? The harm principle, which seeks to introduce personal liberty and its coexistence with society, appears in John Stuart Mill's “On Liberty”, first published in 1859. However, the idea is not black and white - the harm principle can be criticized for its excessive paternalism, lack of clarity, and incomplete handling of certain situations. In this essay, I will argue that Mill thoroughly justifies his theory for the harm principle. To make this argument, I will examine the harm principle, evaluate

until that person conforms to the popular beliefs and values. John Stuart Mill starts off with an argument questioning to what extent “the nature and limits of the power which can legitimately [exercise] by society over the individual” (Mill, n.d., p. Chapter 1). So what if, the nature and limits of power of society know no bounds? This will lead us to the alternative world where liberty and conformity will be social norms. So then Mill goes on and argues that “If all mankind minus one, were of one

What are ethical issues in relation to the workplace and social media? The workplace is known to have ethical issues, some that many people may not even notice to be an issue. Ethical issues are those that may be faced when the question of “What is right and what is wrong?” comes about. In most cases, people tend to use their grown knowledge, meaning the knowledge that have grown to have from experiences and from the way they were raised, when in actuality a person should like logically and be subjective

Of all the important aspects of my life, transportation is something I never think about. We go through our lives driving cars and we don’t realize the ethical decisions we make while we drive. In the article called, “Whose Life Should Your Car Save?” it explains the impact of self-driving cars making decisions in serious situations using Utilitarian ethics to decide what to do. When designing these vehicles, they include functions such as GPS navigation and parallel parking. But they also have to