their own decisions from their inherently good instincts; economic freedom provided individuals with the protection of rights and promoted the ideology that Mill stood for most‚ Utilitarianism which highly influenced classical liberalism. The philosophy of John Stuart Mill has influenced mankind and classical liberalism throughout history. John Stuart Mill‚ a philosopher in the 1800s‚ was an atheist‚ which made an impact on his belief of the role of man. His belief system came from his father James
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Neo-liberalism Neo-liberalism is a political philosophy that proposes that human well-being can best be developed by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills within an institutional framework characterised by strong private property rights‚ free markets‚ free trade‚ economic liberalization‚ privatisation‚ deregulation. This theory also focuses on decreasing the size of the public sector‚ while increasing the role of the private sector in today’s society. (Harvey 2005) Neo-liberalism
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COMPARE UTILITARIAN AND DEONTOLOGICAL THEORIES Utilitarianism is the idea that the moral worth of an action is determined by its usefulness. In maximizing utility and minimizing negative utility‚ in short it can be defined as pleasure minus pain. Deontology means duty or obligation. This theory was founded by a German philosopher‚ Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). According to Kant‚ it is the only way of making moral decisions. Another definition for deontology is that it is an approach to the justification
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departure from the four pillars of the KWS during the neoliberal globalization era‚ through privatization of former crown (or state-owned) corporations‚ demonstrated a commitment of the neoliberal globalization era to classical liberalism and the KWS era to reform liberalism. One state-minimizing initiative the government of Canada engaged in during the time of the neoliberal globalization era was privatization and deregulation of former crown corporations. For example‚ under leadership of the Tories
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negative freedom include civil liberties‚ such as freedom of conscience‚ freedom of speech‚ freedom of movement and freedom of religious worship. Modern liberals‚ on the other hand‚ believed that the unrestrained freedom promoted by classical liberalism has brought about new forms of poverty and injustice. T.H. Green challenged the classical liberal notion of liberty. Negative freedom merely removes external constraints on the individual‚ giving the individual freedom of choice. He proposed the
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Utilitarianism: “Actions are right in the proportion as they tend to promote happiness‚ wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.” John Stuart Mill utilitarianism‚ 1863 Utilitarians founder Jeremy Bentham has a famous formulation that is know as the “greatest-happiness principle”. The definition of this is “the ethical principle that an action is right in so far as it promotes the greatest happiness of the greatest number of those affected”. Central Beliefs: There are seven
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For example‚ the privatisation of foster care in the United Kingdom‚ which is becoming increasingly popular (Steen and Smith‚ 2012) can be argued as a deontological approach from the government’s point of view. The deontological ethics theory focuses on the morality of the action and not the consequences of that action (Encyclopædia Britannica‚ 2015). Caring for vulnerable members in society is a duty‚ privatisation meets the increasing
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Liberalism has been created and molded through many time periods‚ with the assistance of various great thinkers and valid viewpoints. Depending on who is asked‚ liberalism may have many different levels to it for them. Factors that could have shaped their view of liberalism may be their heritage and where they live or have lived. Being specific to the quote‚ the first section of it more referring to welfare capitalism‚ while the second part is largely modern liberalism. There are two distinct principles
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first source is an excerpt taken from Freedom and the Welfare State. The views in the excerpt are supportive of left wing ideologies such as the welfare state‚ and are in favour of social programs. However‚ the source is not a complete rejection of liberalism since it maintains right wing ideologies such as capitalism and self interest. The source suggests that in order for society to thrive we must allow individuals to pursue their interest by granting government intervention in society to create a
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Paper #1 In A Critique of Utilitarianism‚ Bernard Williams argues that when following a Utilitarian approach for moral dilemmas‚ Utilitarianism might have us sacrifice or modify our moral integrity. Williams explains this argument with a hypothetical execution situation with protagonist Jim. Jim‚ who is a botanical expeditionary‚ accidentally wanders in the central square of a small South American town. There‚ he finds twenty Indians tied up in a row‚ with several armed soldiers standing in front
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