Utilitarianism

@thesotiris · 3 weeks ago

On voluntaryism: The voluntaryist moral position

What is voluntaryism? Voluntaryism is not a political system, a social solution, or a utopia. It doesn’t describe how things should or should not work. Voluntaryism is a moral position from which s...

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@thesotiris · 4 months ago

How To Prevent The Next War

Why The "War For Peace" Trope Is Dangerously Illogical... And What You Can Do About It As if I needed more black pills for my colossal disappointment in the human condition, I caught a tweet the othe...

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@thesotiris · 5 months ago

The Burden Of Principle: The True Meaning Of The Lord Of The Rings

Every timeless story has a call to adventure , hero’s journey , moral dilemma , and most importantly, a realization . Without a realization, the story doesn’t linger in your mind and soul. Few s...

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@xuanling11 · 1 year ago

Crypto Nation

What is crypto meaning to you? Well, for most of people, crypto means freedom, and particularly financial freedom. But CBDC is a type of crypto issued by the government. Does that mean the go...

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@xuanling11 · 1 year ago

What if you regret your crypto transaction

Defi hacking is a pandemic now. We lost $2.2B this year, which marked the worst year of the crypto losses despite the fact that we are at the bear market, in which the market capital has shrunk to $1...

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@thesotiris · 1 year ago

Negative economics vs. positive economics: A vital distinction between utilitarianism and deontology

Society is structured around Humean presumptions in the sense of getting a “should” from an “is”. Throughout most of history, societies were founded on negative economics, which uses threats of viole...

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@DrPsycho · 1 year ago

No Universal Right or Wrongs

Yesterday, I just got freed of my exams and I must say yesterday’s exam went well, not gonna speak for all the exams but most of them were well. Now, I will just be waiting for the exams while praying...

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@DrPsycho · 1 year ago

Contracting My Own statement part 2

In the last article, I had mentioned that I was trying to work on the second part of " Contradicting my own statement " but couldn't do so, So to get rid of this mind blockage, I shared my whole week'...

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@LifetoLife · 2 years ago

Learning takes a path from concrete to abstract over time

No matter what job you're considering or doing, over time you realize some serious things. These awarenesses are not only limited to the intricacies of your work, but also make themselves felt on diff...

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@zergar · 2 years ago

First English Essayist.

Hi everyone !! how are you friends ..now i am going to shear with you who is the first Essayist writer.. Francis Bacon is the first great English essayist who enjoys a glorious reputation and consid...

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@Codename_Chikakiku · 2 years ago

Politics despite of Calamity

Recently, my country Philippines got hit by a strong typhoon named Odette, it's so powerful that's its like bagyong Yolanda that was hit on this country last 2013, so many people are dead, properties...

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@Naturalist · 2 years ago

History of English Literature...

Introduction to English Literature Literature is the reflection of life. It mirrors the society in which it is generated. The word literature comes from the Latin word ‘litaritura’ meaning “writing o...

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@Bolivia · 2 years ago

Respect for everyone...

Respect for others means acknowledging each other, listening to other's opinions, their feelings, their time, and their personal space. It also means you should do unto others, as you would have them...

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@GreatWhiteSnark · 2 years ago

There's a Flock of Pernicious Incels Circling A Certain Fetish Site

For those who need to be brought up to speed, the below is my take on/response to a pile of horse manure dumped into/onto, then subsequently deleted from, the particular site to which I refer (which c...

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@Amoryarte · 2 years ago

A stranger with memories: The fear of losing friends

People are not meant to stay forever. They come and go. And as humans, a relationship is innate to us. When we are inside our mum's belly, a family relationship has already begun. We've built it at s...

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@RusTan · 2 years ago

Understanding The Six Paths of Pain

And now this world shall know Pain... To understand why his reasoning is the way it is and what influenced his mind and his actions, we need to know his backstory. Pain was not always known as Pain...

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@andrianlover · 2 years ago

Philosophical Thought of Natural Law, Positive Law, and Utilitarianism

Case study of Law Chairman of the Panel of Judges Saifuddin Zuhri at the Jakarta Corruption Court, on Wednesday, March 31, 2021, decided that the Director of PT Multicon Indrajaya Terminal (MIT) Hien...

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@McJulez · 2 years ago

New Experiences Come and Go

In life, new experiences come and go. There are also certain situations where we cannot defy them. We are torn between choices, wherein we can only have to choose one from the options. Here comes the...

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@VoluntaryJapan · 2 years ago

BTC vs BCH: The World Is Going Crazy, but Utility Remains Golden

In a world of spectacle, bread and circuses, and Hegelian dialectic power plays, what can really be trusted? Elon Musk oddly forgot that Bitcoin uses energy. A strange slip of memory. I wonder who...

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@Theosravson · 2 years ago

Utilitarianism and it’s use in the Governance

The utilitarian philosophy is based on the concept of the greatest happiness of the greatest number. The theory was proposed by thinkers such as Bentham and later on modified by JS Mill. They...

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@lstxkng · 3 years ago

unpopular opinions

I have many, and here they are: Human life and animal life are not equal . Human life is far more valuable. Basic moral intuition tells us this. This doesn’t mean animals should be mistreated or shou...

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@dark_spirit666 · 3 years ago

A Brief History of Moral Philosophy

Escape for a moment from writing a thesis that is full of rules. From writing techniques to how to quote everything as arranged as possible. Moreover, only a few of the many sentences can use their o...

4 likes · 0 comments · Philosophy (3a0d)

@Azrael · 3 years ago

The Philosophy of Utilitarianism

Utilitarianism is a kind of identification or classification of moral actions. It is a consequentialist moral theory that judges whether an action is moral or immoral depending on the results it...

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@JeremySagnes · 3 years ago

Citation

By Joy [I mean] a passion through which the soul passes to a greater perfection. For Sadness, a passion through which she passes to a lesser perfection Baruch Spinoza “Ethics” (1677), III, “On the o...

1 likes · 0 comments · Science of Living Things(SLT) (fa22)

@Audacity · 3 years ago

Justice.

Justice also means fairness and equality . It means giving each other person what they deserves and what is right . A lot of the time, justice is not at all about stuff. It is also about the punishme...

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@Vitalismo · 3 years ago

Summary of Hard Times by Charles Dickens (Social commentary without sjw shoehorning)

Character and structure in Hard Times Charles Dickens’s Hard Times was serialized in 1854. True to his normal form, Dickens novel is rich in social critique for Victorian England and concerns itse...

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@UsmanAusman · 3 years ago

Supposition of craftsmanship

Peruse until the last aspect of this post. I have something for you The workmanship is all-inclusive Writing has given key masterpieces. Among the most well-known ones being educated in school are...

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@Ms_Banana24 · 3 years ago

I am Blessed

According to John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism holds that an action is right if it leads to the most happiness for the greatest number of people. Every one of us have our own source of happiness. And...

1 likes · 0 comments · Open For All (cc80)

@MichMae99 · 3 years ago

Theory of Justice

A Theory of Justice takes up a problem that goes back to the Enlightenment: If rights inure to individual persons, what role can society really play in our lives? Key to this paradox, it is argued,...

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@Alsha · 3 years ago

The Meaning of Life

Many major historical figures in philosophy have provided an answer to the question of what, if anything, makes life meaningful, although they typically have not put it in these terms. Consider, for...

1 likes · 0 comments · Memories of friendship (fb30)