Essays about: "Consequentialism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 essays containing the word Consequentialism.

1. 1. Pipelines, provocateurs and pacifists

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Johanna Spetz; [2024]
   Keywords : Climate change; climate activism; violence; nonviolence; deontology; consequentialism; values; ethics.; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Would you fight climate change at any cost? In the modern day debate, opinions on the appropriate measures to draw attention to the climate crisis are divided. When conventional methods fall short, some activists resort to more assertive approaches. READ MORE

3. 2. Digital Surveillance in the name of National Security

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Jacob Kristiansson; [2023]
   Keywords : Normative Analysis; Deontology; Consequentialism; Paternalism; Edward Snowden; National Security Agency; Surveillance; Big Data; Intelligence; Disclosures.; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Surveillance has throughout history been a widely discussed phenomenon and the debate over the delicate balancing of state power vis-à-vis privacy in the pursuit of national security equally so. In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA had been conducting digital surveillance globally and it represents a tipping point in the history of surveillance. READ MORE

4. 3. Ethics after the Apocalypse : Teaching Right and Wrong through and Analysis of Cormac McCarthy's The Road

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

   Author : Rim Winssi; [2023]
   Keywords : Cormac McCarthy; The Road; Ethics; Consequentialism; Deontology; Virtue Ethics; Swedish National Agency of Education; English; Philosophy; Upper-secondary school;

   Abstract : In our world and our modern society, we have laws, ethics, morality, and religion that guide us, teaching us the basic principles of what is right and what is wrong, and what is good and what is bad. However, what would happen if all of these guides suddenly cease to exist? In Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, this is exactly what happens. READ MORE

5. 4. Moral Philosophies Mechanised in Fallout: New Vegas

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för speldesign

   Author : Sarah Norén; Elin Jägerbrand; Peter Mathiesen; [2022]
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   Abstract : This thesis is aimed at game designers and had the goal of investigating how moral philosophies exist within the role-playing game Fallout: New Vegas. By using close reading as a method the study analyses through a moral philosophical lens how Fallout: New Vegas mechanises moral philosophy and what advantages and disadvantages it holds. READ MORE

6. 5. The Consequentialist Strikes Back : A Discussion of Boonin’s Response to the Nonidentity Problem and Why a Consequentialist Approach is Preferable

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionen

   Author : Artemis Lumarker; [2021]
   Keywords : Nonidentity problem; Boonin; Parfit; Repugnant Conclusion; consequentialism;

   Abstract : The nonidentity problem is the issue of how to justify the belief that it is wrong to bring a person into existence if they would have a flawed life, though still worth living, instead of bringing another, nonidentical person into existence who would have a better life. To have an impaired life that is worth living seems to be a good existence, at least for the person in question. READ MORE