Table of Contents
What is utilitarianism?
Deontological Theory
Human Person’s Views
Human Rights and the Contrast
What is utilitarianism?
Utilitarianism or consequentialism is an approach to human behavior that focuses on its consequences. Theorists following utilitarianism hold that people should …
In the twentieth-century, a refined gentleman is one who is kind and affable. Confucius, while he had the same definition of a refine man, he nonetheless emphasized that a gentleman is someone who keeps his word. Chichung Huang interprets Confucius’ …
In Rene? Descartes asserts in Meditations of First Philosophy that the senses cannot be relied upon to accurately explain the world. Descartes says that he is beginning to doubt his own ideas. He concludes that these ideas are based on …
Moral Relativism and Utalitarianism
Moral values differ greatly from one culture to the next. It is this diversity that gives our world its charm and allows us the opportunity to consider and evaluate different opinions and methodologies. Typically, cultural factors …
Individuals can today make decisions that have an impact on their families, employers, coworkers and the world at large. Life reflects our character. If we decide to use personal ethics. Personal ethics are unique to each individual, but people generally …
Diotima delivers the final word in Plato’s Symposium. She is a mysterious, brilliant woman who has the ability to even stop a disease. She is a mysterious figure, a brilliant woman with the power to stop a plague. She has …
John Campbell in his book Questioning Racinian Tragedy criticizes those who analyze Phaedra as a “troubled amalgamation of tragedy, theology, and biography”. Campbell argues that the Jansenist reading, which sees Phaedra as a play that is unambiguously religious in nature, …
The study of epistemology is to examine the nature of knowledge. It is concerned with the methods of acquiring knowledge and the ways to distinguish between truthful knowledge and false knowledge. Modern epistemology is concerned with the debate of rationalism …
What does being human mean? The most important tools for the evolution of humans are those that allow us to be “decision-making animals capable to overrule [their] instincts.” Rhetoric was this tool for thousands years. Rhetoric can be used to …
Two very different portrayals of Socrates and his beliefs about the Athens gods are presented in the Apology, as well as Clouds. In the Apology a Socrates appears who seems less concerned about the gods but more interested in promoting …