Thus is the case with Nancy Smith and the pharmaceutical company. Nancy Smith was as an employee at will, and under that definition an employer has "the right to promote, demote, and fire whomever and whenever they please." ... Under John Stuart Mill's "principle of utility" actions are just in their tendency to promote happiness. ...
Along with Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill developed the nineteenth century English philosophy known as Utilitarianism, which was the contention that man should judge everything in life based upon its ability to promote the greatest individual happiness (Titus and Smith 122). While Bentham is acknowledged as the philosophy's founder, it was Johm Stuart Mill who further qualified it through logic (Titus and Smith 124). ... Once man has ascended to this highest intellectual level, he desires to stay there, never descending to the lowly level of existence from which he began (Titus and Smit...
Aristotle and Friends We are all social creatures whom by our nature surround ourselves with other human beings who we call our friends. We are constantly trying to broaden our own circle of friends. Aristotle understood the importance of friendship, books VIII and IX of the Nicomachean Ethics d...
Smith (2008, p1) describes the most competent youth worker as someone "who respects, accepts, listens and cares about them." ... Two theorists whose writings are intrinsic when working with children and young people are Emmanuel Kant and John Rawls. ... However, John Rawls (1999, p.72) disagrees with this course of action and believes that "social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are to the greatest expected benefit of the least advantaged" which can be simplified as rules should be changed to benefit the most disadvantaged young people. ...
