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John Stuart Mill verses Immanuel Kants
Title: John Stuart Mill verses Immanuel Kants
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1179 | Pages: 5.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
John Stuart Mill verses Immanuel Kants
John Stuart Mill verses Immanuel Kants ethical theories;
Which makes a better societal order?
John Stuart Mill believed in an ethical theory known as utilitarianism. There are many formulation of this theory. One such is, "Everyone should act in such a way to bring the largest possible balance of good over evil for everyone involved." However, good is a relative term. What is good? Utilitarians disagreed on this subject. Mill made a distinction between happiness …showed first 75 words of 1179 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1179 total…both receiving the same sentence. In my personal opinion, Kant may go as far as to say to the starving nation "Starve equally." And then, the nation slowly starves equally when they could have killed 1000 people to save themselves. Therefore, in my humble and limited opinion, which is merely based on the limited scope of my perception and that which I draw out of that limited scope, Mill's theories would make a better societal order.
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