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Phil 202
Philosophers through the years have
studied and tried to document and assert their own brand of morality or ethics.
Mill and Bentham created Utilitarianism based on the crux of the greatest good
for the greatest number which became a consequential ethical philosophy. On the
other hand we have Immanuel Kant who had his own branch of ethics which became
Kantian ethics, a combination of Locke’s natural rights with the “eye for an
eye” principle from Exodus looking at both the intent as well as the action.
Both theories attempt to be the utmost in moral direction and offer a way for a
person to see if the decision they are making is consistent with beliefs. It is
a personal belief to which one will subscribe and accept as the absolute, but I
will show that no system of ethics can be applied to every situation, and that
there can be a situation which you may find yourself forced to go against your
beliefs.
John Stuart Mill wrote in What Utilitarianism Is, “The creed which accepts as the foundation
of morals “utility” or ….
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