Utilitarianism is a tradition of ethical philosophy that is associated with Jeremy Bentham (1747-1832) andJohn Stuart Mill(1806-1873), two British philosophers, economists, and political thinkers. Utilitarianism holds that an action is right if it tends to promote happiness and wrong if it tends ...
The Carmelite Extern Nun, written by Anne-Gabriel Meusnier de Querlon, and published one year earlier, in 1747, is another whopper. It is the “Amorous True Story [of Saint Nitouche], the Carmelite Extern Nun, Written by Herself, and Addressed to her Mother Superior.” It is anticlerical...
Free Essay: Adolf Hitler is well known for beginning the massive bloodshed that was world war 2, but few stop to think about the cost of war. Aside from...
“Unfortunately, and this is on me totally, that “stealth Trump supporter” post here with 160+ comments needs to be closed out. My fault. Not good at it or I just don’t have the time to moderate these chats about politics and (mainly) culture as I should. I am doing what I lov...
Global health institutions increasingly recognize that the right to health should guide the formulation of replacement goals for the Millennium Development Goals, which expire in 2015. However, the right to health’s contribution is undercut by the princ