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Utilitarianism:Kant, Mill, Bentham

Date Submitted: 12/20/2003 20:42:14
Category: / History
Length: 5 pages (1355 words)
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If life were one big dartboard, with happiness the bulls-eye, then morality would be the feathers on the dart that we shoot. This analogy, if it were known in the 1700's and 1800's, would not only have spared Bentham and Mill a lot of time, but spared the world a lot of trees. For them, happiness in life is only a dart throw away…..Hit the bulls-eye, you win…..Let's play again….. "But enough of …

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…be asked if either of the disciplines, Teleology and Deontology, are truly desirable and applicable to modern life. "No man is an island…entire of itself," hence we form our standpoints solely on the world around us. We can use thinkers from the past such as Kant, Bentham and Mill, as a platform ! to jump from; nevertheless, we must change our focus to the new breed, the new thinkers, in our ever-changing world. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**

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