chapter discusses the biological perspective on addiction. When looking at this perspective it is important to understand the biological causes of addiction‚ tolerance and withdrawal. The chapter discusses the different ways drugs can be administered and absorbed. Further it talks about the different ways drugs are metabolised and excreted and how drugs affect the central nervous system. Lastly it examines tolerance and withdrawal as understood from the biological perspective. There are many different
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Utilitarianism Utilitarianism is a philosophical theory that believes that right thing to do comes from a measurement of the amount of pleasure over the amount of pain‚ and decides that the right thing to do results in what will be the greatest pleasure for the majority of the group. In other words by calculating happiness you will be able to decide what the right thing to do is as long as it is right for the majority of the people. This seems as if it will only help the people that agree on the
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Per. 4 Eli Whitney Eli Whitney was known as one of great inventor; Whitney was born in the town Westborough in Worcester County‚ on December 8‚ 1765‚ the eldest child of Eli Whitney Sr.‚ a prosperous farmer‚ and his wife Elizabeth Fay of the same place‚ so he decided to get into doing machine work and technology. For instance‚ during the Revolutionary War‚ he became an expert at making nails from a device of his own invention‚ and later he crafted canes
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Utilitarianism Utilitarianism the ethical doctrine of the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the criterion of the virtue of action. The principle that utilitarianism use in making moral decisions is a form of moral hedonism; that people should seek pleasure and avoid pain. Utilitarianism seeks to produce the greatest good for the greatest number. But‚ the problem is in determining what the greatest good is. Utilitarian define the “good” as good is what equates pleasure and reduces
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In this essay I will discuss Utilitarianism by first explaining how Utilitarians are consequentialists who base their actions on the pleasure of pain of their consequences. Secondly‚ Jeremy Bentham will be discussed as the propagator of the Principle of Utility which determines human self-interest and voluntary action to achieve the greatest good or greatest pleasure. Thirdly‚ I will discuss John Stuart Mills and his more complex version of Utilitarianism. To clarify the Utilitarian theory I will
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Utilitarianism as an ethical theory Utilitarianism is the view that an act is right if it equals the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people. Utilitarians describe moral actions as actions that boost something good and lessen something that is bad. Virtue‚ knowledge‚ and goodwill are all good but they are only good if they give people a pleasurable existence. Pain is the only thing that is intrinsically bad. Utilitarians focus on the result of an act instead of the inherent
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are granted "school suffrage‚" the right to vote in school board elections. July 13‚ 1848: Lucretia Mott‚ Martha C. Wright‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mary Ann McClintock are invited to tea at the home of Jane Hunt in Waterloo‚ New York. They decide to call a two-day meeting of women at the Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Seneca Falls to discuss women’s rights. July 19 and 20‚ 1848: Three hundred people attend the first convention held to discuss women’s rights‚ in Seneca Falls‚ New York. 68 women
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Utilitarianism‚ by John Stuart Mill‚ is an essay written to provide support for the value of utilitarianism as a moral theory‚ and to respond to misconceptions about it. Mill defines utilitarianism as a theory based on the principle that "actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness‚ wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." Mill defines happiness as pleasure and the absence of pain. He argues that pleasure can differ in quality and quantity‚ and that pleasures
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Utilitarianism Classical Utilitarianism is a moral philosophy‚ which was developed in 19th century England by Jeremy Bentham‚ John Stuart Mill and Henry Sidgwick. The essential feature a utilitarian reside in‚ is the notion that an action is right if it produces the most amount of happiness well limiting suffering. Utilitarianism focuses solely on the consequences of the action‚ in an attempt to bring about the most happiness from each situation‚ well ensuring everybody’s happiness is equally
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As Simply as You Can? One of the world’s greatest scientists to have ever lived‚ Albert Einstein‚ won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921. Already famous and a household name‚ he wrote a letter replying to a sixth-grade student named Phyllis Wright in January of 1936. This context made Albert Einstein the speaker‚ Phyllis Wright the audience‚ and the question and the answer to it‚ the subject. She had originially asked him if scientists pray and if they do‚ what for. Einstein responded saying‚ that
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