Examination of Mill and Dworkin Looking at the legal status of drugs‚ and one’s own liberty for that matter‚ I examined the works of Mills and Dworkin. There are many different views‚ and in the end‚ as in all philosophical issues‚ there is no one answer. It then boils down to which one‚ if either‚ of these two different points of view is correct. Each of the works is presented in the book Contemporary Moral Problems by James White. After careful examination of both views‚ I will discuss each and
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Mill - Dworkin debate 1. Mill’s utilitarian argument against paternalism "I forego any advantage which could be derived to my argument from the idea of abstract right as a thing independent of utility. I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical questions; but it must be utility in the largest sense‚ grounded on the permanent interests of man as a progressive being". Mill does not argue that liberty is a right but rather that giving people liberty has beneficial consequences. Mill thinks
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to be completely credible in her sometimes audacious statements about equality‚ the nature of men‚ and sexism‚ Andrea Dworkin herself comes out as a victim of rape. While that was guaranteed to be a touchy subject it definitely gave her the power to affect an audience of 500 men and maintained a level of Ethos in her argument. When bringing up instances about rape and abuse‚ Dworkin by no means sugar-coats anything. She is biased. She is harsh in her use of language. And quite honestly she does a
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MacKinnon ’s that it promotes the inequality in the sexes by discriminating women showing them as subordinates of men. MacKinnon wants to see pornography banned in order to help women ’s position in the social spheres of society. Her opponent is Ronald Dworkin who stands for negative liberty in all its forms‚ believes that the banning of pornography is not the answer to help women ’s status. Censorship to him is an infringement on one ’s freedom and he does not advocate any sort of chains on freedom in
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1. Gerald Mahoney’s attitude and performance dramatically changed after a few months on the job. What type of training should Mahoney have immediately received from John Timmson that might have avoided this? Gerald should have received some type of on-the-job training that goes over ever piece of detail that needs to be attended to. John left everything up to Gerald then eventually got upset when business was not being taken care of. The reason for on-the-job training‚ is because John can use
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Gerald Durrell is a master of many things – a naturalist‚ zookeeper‚ conservationist‚ author and television presenter...but is perhaps best remembered for writing a number of books including Fillets of Plaice. Durrell was born in India in 1925 and said that his first visit to a zoo in India was the start of his love affair with animals. The family moved to England after the death of his father in 1928‚ but later moved to the Greek Island of Corfu in 1935. It was in Corfu where Durrell began to
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these parents since they are willing to do anything in their power to save their precious only daughter. They know for a fact that their daughter should have a long life ahead of her with a lot of potential. The author of “Life’s Dominions‚” Robert Dworkin best describes the frustrating dilemma on hand: “If you believe that the natural investment in a human life is transcendently important‚ that the gift of life itself is infinitely more significant than anything the person whose life it is may do for
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Gerald of Wales was a medieval clergyman who in 1184 became a diplomatic negotiator of King Henry II(pg 12). The following year Henry II had Gerald of Wales accompany his son John on an expedition to Ireland. After Gerald’s expedition to Ireland he produced Topographia Hibernica (Topography of Ireland) as a gift for Henry II (pg30). Due to his religious point of view and generally critical attitude to the manners and morals of the Irish he uses his book to shed light on Ireland and their need for
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A Nozick and Dworkin comparison Philosophy of Love and Sex Introduction This paper compares and contrasts the philosophical views of two thinkers: Robert Nozick and Andrea Dworkin on the subject of Romantic Love (Eros / Being in Love). By romantic love‚ Nozick and Dworkin are referring to the possibility of two individuals sharing a single identity: in other words‚ what Nozick calls love’s bond and Dworkin calls communion. Where Nozick and Dworkin differ is over the value
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