Western pleasure

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

arguing that a life of happiness is one of continuously high pleasure. Mill realistically says that happiness often only lasts for moments - with a few exceptions. Utilitarianism is focused on obtaining a life with few pains in-between many moments of various pleasure - a happy life, not an unobtainable perfect life. Another attack is that Utilitarianism removes self sacrifice, valued by our christian culture, because of the focus on pleasure and the avoidance of pain, which could be caused by self

A key example Theophilos uses is the idea of a pleasure suit. If the pleasure suit gives you an intense sense of pleasure and you can choose when to enter and when to exit, would you choose to? Even if that meant giving up a variety of aspects in your life including social life and a career? Theophilos argues that even if you choose

practical, real world scenario that Micheal Walzer posses. Utilitarianism is a famous and prominent moral approach. According to Merriam Webster’s Dictionary, Utilitarianism is “a theory that the aim of action should be the largest possible balance of pleasure over pain or the greatest happiness of the greatest number”. Jeremy Bentham is the founder of this belief and he began sharing

of greatest happiness" is based upon the utilitarian doctrine(textbook). This doctrine believes that one's actions are thought to be right when they promote great happiness or minimize pain. The utilitarian theory is the feeling of pleasure and freedom from pain which is the desired end. Basically this theory states a person's actions taken during a situation are considered to be correct if they maximize the feeling of happiness but also minimize those that cause pain.

For this week’s lecture we had five different readings. There were two chapters, chapter five and twelve, from “The Selfish Gene” by Richard Dawkins. The other readings were chapters five, six, and seven From “Yanomamo” by Napoleon A. Chagnon. In chapter five from “The Selfish Gene”, Dawkins discusses the idea that animals of the same species are more likely to be aggressive towards each other because they share more of the same resources. This makes a lot of sense because two animals that do not

In this paper, I would explain why it is wrong to lie to a person in a utilitarian’s point of view. One problem for this view is that it simply only looks at the amount of happiness of individuals as a group. It does not address the quantity of happiness each person would have in a certain situation. Moreover, I will also state how Mill would reply to this objection by stating that how happy a person is does not equate to the significance of how many people would be happy in response to a certain

“Bentham and Mill equated happiness with pleasure and the absence of pain.” (Sanchez 5). In other words, any actions that generates greatest amount of pleasure and enjoyment are deemed to be right. “Pleasure, in their view, is the one thing that is intrinsically good or worthwhile. Anything that is good is good only because it brings about pleasure (or happiness), directly or indirectly.” (Sanchez

Hedonism is a form of wellbeing theory about what is best in our interest and what is good for us. According to hedonism, wellbeing relies solely on pleasure experienced. Although there are some hedonist theories that values extrinsic pleasure, in this essay we will be looking at hedonism that values pleasure felt from inside, i.e., hedonism as a mental state theory of wellbeing. This theory has met quite a numbers of objections. We will focus on one such popular objection developed by Robert Nozick

greatest possible balance of pleasure over pain for everyone that are affected (Shaw et al. 2013 p67). According to Jeremy Bentham, an action is ethical if the action yield greater utility than alternatives (Shaw et al. 2013 p67). In addition, Bentham evaluate pleasure and pain by quantitative differences, which are intensity and duration (Shaw et al. 2013 p67). According to John Stuart Mills, definition of pleasure is incline intrinsically towards intellectual pleasure and imagination, and stated