Mill feels that the best way to maximize all around happiness is to concentrate on maximizing the happiness of those people whose needs, goals, and ambitions you understand the most. These needs, goals, and ambitions include your own, and those people closest to you which include family members, and friends. ...
He could "see more things than most people, but he could see none of them too distinctly", since his vision is obscured by ambition and greed. ... He convinces everyone around him that they own a share of the Syndicate, and as such, are part of something much greater. ... Heller likewise pokes fun at the gullibility and shallowness of American society, revealing that "the sweetest part of the whole deal was that there was no need to reimburse the government at all" (259), showing that society is more inclined to gain profit than uphold its own moral standards. ...
While traditional hedonism is concerned only with one's personal pleasure, utilitarianism is concerned with pleasure in general- both one's own pleasure and the pleasure of other people.2 The phrase "the greatest good for the greatest number" is used to summarise the utilitarian theory revolving around a desire to return morality to the search for a individually satisfying or pleasurable life while often sacrificing short term pleasures for more lasting or "greater" pleasures. ... His complete separation of the concept of morality and duty and our personal desire...
A good example of this is the description Conrad gives of Stevie's reaction to an injured animal: "The dramas of fallen horses, whose pathos and violence induced him sometimes to shriek piercingly in a crowd, which disliked to be disturbed by sounds of distress in its quiet enjoyment of a national spectacle" (Conrad: p49) In this case it is obvious that Conrad's irony, although appearing to mock Stevie, is instead turned against the crowd, thus revealing to us a degree of fellow feeling in Stevie and our own natures. ... His moralistic behaviour seems to arise from a keen sens...
Kant's moral theory consists of two imperatives the first one is hypothetical imperative where a person works towards their goals and ambitions where they have personal choice for their desires. ... According to Kant, a person who takes the liberty to take control of their own or another individuals life acts in violation to the moral law, Kant argued that euthanasia is an unnatural act. ... According to John Stuart, "Individuals are ultimately the best judges and guardians of their own interests" [Sin03]. ... Kant's biggest principle is that every individual should be pro...
I will not be developing a moral theory of my own, but creating an account of some, but not necessarily all, key characteristics that would, arguably, be necessary for a moral theory to possess in order to not fall to contradiction or other such fallacy while still refraining from contradicting general intuition about the vast majority of subjects, cases, and dilemmas. ... It must of course, be noted that having humanitarian and altruistic agenda for the whole, does not necessarily mean focusing ones own ambitions to benefit the whole. ...
