nessuh’s Weblog

Children should not be responsible for knowing the social contract because wisdom comes with age. They dont know at birth what is right and what is wrong. But people should be required to abide by the rules and what they are supposed to do. They have to go by whatever the rules are in place where [...]

Rationality and self-love, according to Kant, are connected in the sene that humans have the ability to reason. This ability allows humans to act in accordance to our beliefs on what is moral and what is immoral. In Kant’s view, morality should follow the concept of categorical imperative. He connects rationality and morality and says [...]

According to Kant, only act in accordance to your maxim. Your maxim would only be moral if it could become a universal law. Lets say if cheating on exams were made into a universal law. So everyone is cheating on their exams now and its ok. But then the professor thinks, Wait a second, what [...]

Happiness most definitley does have an intrinsic value. Many different actions or things can happen that can make a person happy but the value of happiness is so much greater than it is not dependent on external factors. Being happy has a much greater value than being sad because no one would ever chose to [...]

If I could sit down and have a conversation with John Stuart Mill, the first thing I would ask is..Do you honestly think that anyone would sit down and think about how their actions would affect the overall happiness of a large group of people? It is just extremely difficult to take into consideration everyone’s [...]

Expediency is said to allow too many white lies. But like in one of my previous blogs, there are lies that dont constitute as being bad lies. Although, the majority of people would say that lying is bad, in the case of the dying grandmother, would anyone really say that it was a poor choice [...]

The concept of utilitarianism definitely asks too much of everyday normal people. How could a person honestly stop and think about every action and whether or not it will increase or decrease the overall happiness of people? The world is too fast pace. There is absolutely no way to take into account everyone’s happiness. Everyone [...]

In the reading that was assigned to our group Mill stated that the objectors to Utilitarianism often state that it is “an immoral doctrine” and immediately compare it to expediency. I could put the paper that I wrote on the subject on here but to summarize it all up..Mill’s arguement that expediency is lying and that [...]