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Can a utilitarian be committed to promoting more than one objective?

Utilitarianism, as you remember, is the view, which says that the right thing to do maximises the overall amount of good. At first glance, there is nothing that would prevent a utilitarian from promoting ...

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Evaluate the claim that the aim of all ethical principles is to cultivate sympathy

'Evaluate': Assess the terms of the question and their implications'Sympathy': feeling pity for someone else.The claim that the aim of all ethical principles is to cultivate sympathy is a sweeping and ina...

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Describe the difference between Rationalism and Empiricism.

In Epistemology (philosophy of knowledge), philosophers debate the question of how dependent we are on our senses to obtain knowledge. Empiricists, like Locke and Hume, claim that our majority of knowledg...

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Evaluate the claims about experience in arguments for the existence of God, or the gods.

Introduction should explain the terms in the question, state your thesis and dissect the question into arguments supported by philosophers, such as Richard Swinburne, Richard Dawkins, A.J. Ayer and Willia...

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What is the significance of using 'if and only if' in Philosophy instead of simply 'if'?

Often in Philosophy (and Maths) we may come across the phrase 'if and only if', regularly abbreviated as 'iff' and denoted by an arrow pointing in both directions. <-> Logicians refer to this as a b...

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