Utilitarianism is one of the most widely debated moral theories. Although its principles, to some, are considered harsh, many actions and decisions we make on a daily basis contain some degree of utilitarian principles. Whether it is telling a white lie to spare another's feelings or punish cri...

Marx and Engel's conceptions about happiness refer mostly to labor and how you can achieve happiness through labor. As described on one of the Internet websites, "happiness involves expressing our species nature"[1] and this species nature', the thing that makes us different from other...

Philosophy of ethics is based on a couple of main theories that were found by the philosophers of the past several thousand years. Two of the main theories are the Virtue Theory found by Aristotle and the Theory of Utilitarianism found by the British philosopher John Stuart Mill. The two of them h...

Jeremy Bentham Jeremy Bentham was an English philosopher who founded the principle of utilitarianism. Under utilitarianism, everything is classified by its "utility" or usefulness. Utility is the object's ability to produce happiness. Bentham wanted to create happiness in his so...

Extreme global poverty is a problem that affects a large percentage of the world's population and will continue to spread until serious action is taken against it by the wealthier nations. However, the amount of obligation, if any, that countries feel they have to deal with such a problem is ...

Equality Is the pursuit of equality a worthy ethical goal? No it's not because in reality people don't think logically about detailed issues in life which Peter Singer brings up in the book. Singer is regarded as a rationalist. He supports a philosophical system based on reason rather th...