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    Being in the military I have been around many different types of people. There are several major groups of ethical theories such as consequentialist (teleological)‚ nonconsequentialist (deontological)‚ and virtue theories. After thinking about past interactions with people I have worked with and pondering about my family members I will discuss to an extent I believe they use consequential‚ nonconsequential‚ and virtue theories. An old acquaintance of mine‚ Thomas uses consequential theory. He is

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    Utilitarianism is an ethical theory that states that the right course of action would maximises the most utility. An action is right if the sum total of utilities produced by that act is greater than the sum total utilities produced by any other. Utility is defined in various ways so there are some misunderstandings of using utilitarianism. Utilitarianism states that an action is right when the action produces the most utility for all persons affected by the action so we should compare the utility

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    Utilitarianism Vs Hedonism

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    pleasure‚ while for utilitarianism philosophers the ultimate goal in life is to find happiness. Both‚ which seem reasonable goals to live by each day. But what does hedonism and utilitarianism mean‚ what is happiness‚ would either approve of Nozick’s Experience Machine in order to achieve happieness or pleasure? In this paper‚ I will explain how utilitarianism and hedonism works‚ what are their philosophies and will argue if either one would approve

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    most amount of people that are in need of the pleasure. With these measurements of pleasure and pain‚ utilitarianism can create the maximum amount of happiness. For utilitarians‚ the utility of happiness is the ultimate purpose to human life. The most important thing for everyone is to incorporate happiness and maximize it whenever necessary and for the most people in all of society. Utilitarianism is not an egoist theory. They do not intend on creating contentment for an individual‚ but rather the

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    This relates to the tension between Deontology and Utilitarianism because both have not approached the general level of acceptance in moral philosophy. 5.  From the reading in the book in Section 6‚ how does rule utilitarianism answer the problem of “hanging the innocent man”?  The rule of utilitarianism answers the people because act utilitarianism comes into action. A moral decision to maximize the best outcome of all persons are considerable verse

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    Utilitarianism and libertinism are debatable philosophies to decide what is just. Utilitarian main principle is maximizing society happiness. From Utilitarian point of view‚ the best action is the action produce happiness for the greatest amount of people. Even though minority of people will suffer for the majority’s happiness. Moreover‚ utilitarianism measures the cost and benefit in single scale which is happiness. From this view‚ any other things than happiness are not valuable. On the other hand

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    Kant Vs Utilitarianism

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    Utilitarianism and Kant’s respective have different ways for demonstrating whether an act we do is right or wrong. Corresponding to Kant‚ we should look at our maxims‚ intentions‚ of a particular action. Kantians believe “If we are rational‚ we will each agree to curb our self-interest and cooperate with one another” (Shafer-Landau‚ Russ 194). In other words‚ humans are rational beings capable of rational behavior and should not be used purely for self-interest. On the other hand‚ Utilitarian’s believe

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    3) Can Deontological Egoism avoid all the problems that confront unconstrained ethical egoism? In this essay I will argue that Deontological Egoism can rescue Unconstrained Ethical Egoism from a large number of its problems and that DE offers a more plausible and attractive Egoism theory Understanding Moral theories The goal of a moral theory is to meet certain moral principles. Various principles are argued for to be included as moral principles within a workable moral theory. We therefore can analyze

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    Utilitarianism and deontology are two moral theories that can often pull us in different direction. Utilitarianism is the ethical doctrine that virtue is based on utility‚ and that conduct should be directed toward promoting the greatest happiness of the greatest number of persons. This can be viewed as a contingent right. Contingent means something that could happen or come up depending on other occurrences. An example of a contingent right is the unexpected need for a bandage on a hike. The bandage

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    a person takes rather than a person’s character. Overall‚ modern ethics gives us two “act base theories” the Kantianism and Utilitarianism‚ both define ethics in a form of action. In this paper I will be discussing the beliefs of Kantianism. In the 18th century‚ Philosopher Immanuel Kant a proponent for Kantianism ethics opposed the utilitarianism theory. Kant’s deontological principal looks at the source of the action; if someone is acting on a good

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