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Philosophy and Ethics
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What are the main differences between Bentham and Mill's utilitarianism and which theory is better?

Both thought that the moral value of an act was determined by the pleasure it produced.

Bentham considered only quantity of pleasure, but

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Outline one criticism of Natural Moral law.

Natural Moral Law despite it's stregnths has been critiqued for commiting the 'naturalistic fallacy'. This is a logical fallacy explained by Hume in his famous fork analog. It argues a person has turned a...

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Discuss J S Mill's notion that to deprive society of an opinion is to assume infallibility

Mill’s ideas about fallibility expound his notion that we can never be sure of what the truth is, because in order to be so we would have to accept the proposition that we are infallible, which is a false...

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Why are most Catholics pro-life?

The Catholic church is an institution that has absolute rules on moral issues. One of these is abortion. They use Biblical passages such as Jeremiah 1:5 'Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you' and G...

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What are two of Aristotle's virtues?

One of Aristotle's key virtues is the virtue of being indignant. He teaches that a virtuous person would be justified in being upset if an individual does well when they should not have. For example, if a...

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