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John Stuart Mill’s “On Liberty” -- Skepticism or Toleration?
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This 5 page report discusses the 19th century philosopher, John Stuart Mill who was certain that the highest normative principle is that, “actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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John Stuart Mill, the “Subjection of Women,” and the Family
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This 5 page report discusses 19th century philosopher, John Stuart Mill and his assertion that the highest normative principle is that, “actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.” His views on women and the family are considered in the context of his ideals related to the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Mill was certain that the differences between the sexes are essentially accidental. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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John Stuart Mill/On Liberty
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A 5 page essay that analyzes John Stuart Mill's famous work On Liberty. The writer examines Mill's concluding paragraph and then discusses how he arrived at these conclusions. No additional sources cited.
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John Stuart Mill: Freedom of Speech and Tolerating the Intolerable
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A 3 page discussion of Mills views on the importance of Freedom of Speech. Uses Supreme Court cases to reinforce Mills view of negative freedom and tolerating the intolerable in order to provide the greatest benefit to the greatest number of people. Suggests that Mill is correct and that even speech which could be construed as hate speech should be protected under the freedom of speech guarantee of the Constitution. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: PPmillSp.doc

John Stuart Mills: Utilitarianism.
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(5 pp) Utilitarianism is an ethical theory developed in the modern period by Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and John Stuart Mill (1806-73) to promote fairness in British legislation during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when the interests of the upper classes tended to prevail and the sufferings of the lower classes were neglected. Utilitarianism is an ethical theory that calls for putting benevolence into action. Mill interprets the term utilitarianism as signifying any moral theory (the terms ethical and moral are used synonymously by Bentham and Mill, ) in which acts are judged on the basis of their utility. Mill further specifies that there is no one conception of what constitutes utility and there is no implication of a sect. The author expresses dissention with "The Ultimate Sanction of the Principle of Utility." Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: BBjsmill.doc

John Tyndall's "Belfast Address":
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This 6 page paper discusses the biography of John Tyndall and the important of his Belfast Address. This paper underlines the impact this controversial address had on a great many people and the impact which it contninues to have today. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: GSBelfas.rtf

Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" Book IV: Reason And Value
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5 pages in length. Eighteenth century philosophy especially tended to pride itself on having developed to the highest degree the renaissance faith in reason as the distinctive quality of man. Author Jonathan Swift's attitude to his era's view of reason as the sole criterion of value is what ultimately transpired in Book IV of "Gulliver's Travels." That Gulliver had had an interesting – albeit at times strange – journey thus far in the tale did not prepare him for the discovery of his true self, an image he had not only loathed in himself but had previously condemned in others. No additional sources cited.
Filename: TLCgulli.doc

Joseph Butler’s Concept of Benevolence
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A 6 page paper discussing two views of Bishop Butler’s pronouncements of the worth of self love. Joseph Butler (1692-1752) is a pre-utilitarianism, pre-Freud minister who took note of the concept of self-love as not only being morally acceptable, but as constituting a primary impetus for “good works” and benevolence. One of the authors discussed agrees; the other does not wholly disagree but fails to disprove Butler’s position philosophically. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: KSphiloButlerBen.rtf

Jostein Gaarder's Novel, "Sophie's World" and Proving Goethe's Assertion That, "He Who Cannot Draw on Three Thousand Years, Is Living From Hand to Mouth"
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A 5 page persuasive essay which defends the assertion made by German philosophical novelist Johann von Goethe, "He who cannot draw on three thousand years, is living from hand to mouth" by primarily relying upon Jostein Gaarder's novel, "Sophie's World." No additional sources are used.
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Journalism Ethics
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Reporting Terrorism and Retaliation: A 12 page paper discussing the news media's treatment of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the anthrax scare and subsequent action in Afghanistan in terms of the philosophies of Kant and Mill. The paper's focus is a discussion of the ethics of the media's cooperation with government officials in their efforts to report the news as it occurred. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: KSethicMedia.rtf