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Jeremy Bentham, 2006.
Summarizes the life and works of Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher and political thinker.
1,367 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 4 sources, APA, £ 31.95
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Jeremy Bentham, popular English jurist, philosopher and legal and social reformer, was born on February 15, 1748 to a wealthy Tory family. This paper summarizes the life and works of Jeremy Bentham, including his panopticon design for prisons, his theory of utilitarianism, "Writings of the Poor Laws" and his proposal of industry houses.
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"There were three obligations that Bentham laid out to the British government to attain Utilitarianism. The first was to provide the poor with enough to survive. This included giving them food, providing clothing and providing security for their livestock and other belongings. The second obligation was to encourage abundance, both wealth and of population. Bentham knew that the larger the population the wealth per capita would drop, but he also knew that you needed a large population for defense. The third and final obligation was equality of means. Bentham wanted taxation to be distributed differently but it must be done carefully or it could possibly decrease the general abundance of the population."
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Jeremy Bentham, 2006.
A review of the life, history and contributions of political economist, Jeremy Bentham.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, £ 36.95
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This paper reviews the life and work of Jeremy Bentham, the political economist who was born in 1748 and died in 1832. This paper discusses how Bentham was an important representative of this early prototypical class of political economists who are recognized today for their pioneering work. This paper further discusses the contributions he made to the political economy and as a jurist, a philosopher, and one of the period's foremost proponents of utilitarianism. Bentham was also known for his minor involvement with animal rights issues at time when that particular subject often received short shrift in comparison to some of the greater thematic issues of the day.
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The Ethics of Hanna Arendt and Jeremy Bentham, 2004.
An ethics essay looking at how Hanna Arendt and Jeremy Bentham would have handled certain situations from an ethics point of view.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 0 sources, APA, £ 21.95
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This paper discusses Hanna Arendt's moral philosophy and how it would be applied to the decision about who to serve in an intensive care unit and Jeremy Bentham's theory of utility and how it would be applied to the decision of torturing Iraqi prisoners in order to gain information on terrorist cells.
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"The determination of how to use the available beds in the intensive care unit if applied to Hannah Arendt's view of morality would encompass all of the following considerations on every given potential admission: first come first served, the most critical and life threatening, those who can afford to pay, the youngest the, oldest, those in the most pain, those who have the best chance to survive and those most valuable to the community."
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Jeremy Bloom and NCAA, 2005.
A discussion of the case of Jeremy Bloom, dealing with paid endorsements and college sports.
5,475 words (approx. 21.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 93.95
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Jeremy Bloom, a football player at the University of Colorado, was ruled ineligible to play for the team because he had accepted paid endorsements for professional skiing. The NCAA was the one that made the ruling, and they determined that anyone who is paid for endorsements is not allowed to play in college sports. This paper explains that there is some discussion and dissent as to whether this should be the ruling in cases like Bloom's, since the sport that he received paid endorsements for was distinctly and clearly separate from the sport that he played at the University of Colorado. It shows that there has been much discussion into this issue because there are those that are very serious about whether this ruling was accurate, and there are two sides to the argument, both of which are dealt with in this research.
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Introduction
Statement of the Problem
Significance of the Problem
Review of Related Literature
Discussion of Source Materials
Body of the Report
Summary and Conclusion
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"Naturally, this is very important to Jeremy Bloom but there are bigger considerations as well. The ruling that the NCAA has regarding this type of paid endorsement and all of the other rulings that the NCAA has regarding college athletes affect not only Bloom but thousands of individuals that attend college across the United States and play sports as well. Most of these individuals are not affected by this particular ruling because they are not competent in another sport to the point where they are being offered endorsement money for professional things."
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Jeremy Bentham, 2006.
This paper focuses on the life and contributions of English jurist, social reformist, political thinker and philosopher Jeremy Bentham.
1,092 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 6 sources, APA, £ 26.95
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This paper examines the impact of Jeremy Bentham on Britain's judicial system. This paper discusses the England's corrupt legal system during the 18th and 19th centuries which Bentham succeeded in considerably reforming. This paper analyzes the political thinker's approach to social reform. The writer of this paper delves into Bentham's insightful views and opinions pertaining to political liberty, hedonism and psychological egoism. This paper also examines Bentham's considerable impact on the British Parliament which upon Bentham's death passed the Reform Bill, which extricated political power from the ruling nobility and bestowed it upon British population.
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"The basis for Bentham's theory of government necessarily starts from his ethical propositions; both of these depend upon his principle of utility he called this the "greatest happiness" principle. Bentham identifies happiness with pleasure, and supposes that the rightness or wrongness of actions can only be accurately comprehended upon a scale of pleasure and pain, happiness and unhappiness. This makes him a hedonist, but he is a utilitarian hedonist in that he believes that human actions should be measured along these guidelines based upon their definitive outcomes. The outcome of purely moral actions spreads this principle throughout all of society: "It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."
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Intelligence and Creativity: Jeremy Bentham and Ludwig von Beethoven, 2002.
A discussion on whether genetics or environmental influence made Jeremy Bentham and Ludwig von Beethoven who they were.
3,025 words (approx. 12.1 pages), 17 sources, £ 77.95
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This paper looks at Bentham and Beethoven and examines the question of "nurture" vs. "nature". Heredity is looked at as well as environmental influence in terms of what made these two examples what they were.
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Jeremy Bentham?s ?Classical Utilitarianism?, 2004.
This paper discusses Jeremy Bentham?s ?Classical Utilitarianism?, the economies of pleasure and pain.
885 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 1 source, APA, £ 21.95
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This paper explains that utilitarianism is defined as the idea that individuals and government should attempt to do the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of people. The author points out that Bentham?s argument is based on individual rather than collective rights. The paper concludes that it is only the majority rule of individuals that determines what is right or wrong according to community dictates, and above all, the same process is applicable to pleasure and pain, in whatever shape they appear.
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"If a person fears pain, it is thus much worse if it is very intense, for a long duration, is close at hand, is certain, is apt to be given again, and will not be followed by pleasure. Perhaps an example might be, to take a relatively benign comparison. Who is in more pain of the following two students? A poor student, facing the SATs the next morning, who must take the test and is compelled to do so by his zealous parents, but feels he or she is doomed to failure versus a good student, offered the option of taking an extra credit quiz at some point in the semester, the time of which he or she may choose, of less than a half-hour?s time, followed by a pizza party? The individual in the most pain, in the scenarios, is intuitively obvious, even if one does not grade the two upon Bentham?s scales of intensities of pain and pleasure."
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"Jeremy", 2004.
An interpretation of this song by the group, "Pearl Jam", about teen suicide.
1,133 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 27.95
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This paper begins with a personal interpretation of the song "Jeremy", sung by Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam. It explains the musical and vocal techniques used by Vedder to get across his message about the alarmingly high incidence of teen suicide in America. The paper refers to an original newspaper article that describes what inspired Vedder to write the song.
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"Vedder starts off by just saying (de-emphasizing) the words, and his voice sounds very smooth and refined. However the next line, ?and the dead lay in pools of maroon below?, is emphasized with a lot of build up in the voice. The build up results in the explosion of Vedder?s voice with emotions which are very powerful and dramatic, at some parts even full of rage and hatred. Vedder seems to place the biggest emphasis on ?but we unleashed a lion? to state how angry Jeremy was and to justify Jeremy?s actions. At the climax of the song, where Vedder doesn?t really sing but just makes noises, his voice flows perfectly. This technique not only adds sad feelings to the context of the song, but also gives the listener time to arrive at his or her own conclusion about the song."
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"The End Of Work" ( Jeremy Rifkin ), 1999.
Critical review of this work on the effect of global market and technology on Americas workers and workplace.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, £ 32.95
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The theme of Jeremy Rifkin's The End of Work is that global culture is entering a new phase: one where fewer and fewer workers are needed to produce the goods and services for the global population (p. xvii). He maintains the world is entering a new age of global markets and automated production (p. 292). His analysis examines the technological innovations and market-directed forces he argues are moving us into a "near workerless world" and he explores this technological revolution in an attempt to address the problems he believes will accompany the transition (p. xvii).
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"Jeremy Rifkin's "The End of Work"
The theme of Jeremy Rifkin's The End of Work is that global culture is entering a new phase: one where fewer and fewer workers are needed to produce the goods and services for the global population (p. xvii). He maintains the world is entering a new age of global markets and automated production (p. 292). His analysis examines the technological innovations and market-directed forces he argues are moving us into a "near workerless world" and he explores this technological revolution in an attempt to address the problems he believes will accompany the transition (p. xvii).
Rifkin concludes it is still within our power to harness this revolution in a direction beneficial to a majority of American workers. Many analysts have covered the material he covers in this ..."
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A Review of Jeremy Rifkin's Book "The Biotech Century", 2000.
A critical look at Rifkin's book on genetic engineering.
1,540 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 1 source, £ 34.95
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"The birth of the world?s most famous sheep, the genetically cloned Dolly, sparked turbulent ethical, scientific, and religious debate, taking Genetic Engineering from the laboratories and thrusting it onto the front pages of the world. The living proof of what was once considered no more than science fiction prompted an entirely new range of dangers and possibilities. Jeremy Rifkin?s The Biotech Century warns of the dangers of genetic engineering and takes a rather alarmist stance in revealing the outcomes of current and future genetic research."
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Bible & Jeremy Bentham On Killing, 1996.
Examines views of Biblical authors & utilitarian philosopher on morality of killing a human being.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 7 sources, £ 32.95
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"Is it morally wrong in every case to kill another human being, or are there instances in which taking another human being's life is justified? Moral philosophers have wrestled with this issue for centuries. The issue may be couched as directly as it is above--that killing is morally wrong--or it may center on specific instances which some believe alter the moral equation, such as in war, for purposes of euthanasia, or most recently, with reference to the issue of abortion. Of course, the latter involves the further question of when human life begins so that the killing of a fetus can be considered the killing of a human being. The Bible addresses the issue and does not produce as complete or direct an answer as one might think, and the utilitarian Jeremy Bentham also offers a somewhat clouded picture with different interpretations possible. Clearly, the.."
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"Beyond Beef" ( Jeremy Rifkin ), 1999.
Summary and review of this work on the adverse role of cattle production and consumption in history and its destructive impact on ecology.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, £ 32.95
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"This research paper consists of a summary and review of Jeremy Rifkin's book Beyond Beef.
Rifkin traces the changing but nonetheless central role of cattle as civilization evolved. In ancient cultures, such as that of Egypt, and in the later Roman Mithran cult, the bull was revered as a god and as a symbol of fertility and martial/masculine prowess. The great nomadic tribes of Central Asia valued cattle as possessions, as well as a blood sacrifice to the gods. As the European economies developed and their populations cultivated a taste for beef, cattle became a commodity and an important source of wealth and power. First introduced into the New World by the Spanish, cattle ranching dominated the societies of many Central and South American..."
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Locke's Property Argument, 2005.
An examination of John Locke's property argument in light of Jeremy Rifkin's critique.
1,015 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 24.95
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This paper attempts to analyze, in light of Jeremy Rifkin's arguments about the age of access, the plausibility of John Locke's arguments as models for understanding ownership and exchange in the contemporary world.
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"Over the past decades, capitalism has undergone a revolution. That revolution, spearheaded by unprecedented technological innovation, has engendered an academic effort towards the redefinition of capitalism, and the reformulation of its infrastructural base. As Joyce Rothschild and Raymond Russell (1986) contend, information technology has struck at the very base of capitalism, rendering previously sacrosanct rules governing market relations and interpersonal economic exchanges, not to mention relationships between property and individual, obsolete (308-310). There is probable justification for the stated declaration yet, the authors have taken the issue a couple of steps further than is warranted."
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Do Not Resusciate Decisions, 2002.
Uses the examples of John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham to demonstrate that utilitarianims supports the ethical and moral "do not resuscitate" decision.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, £ 30.95
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This essay discusses how do not resuscitate (DNR) decisions from a patient standpoint can be proven morally and ethically upon examination through the principles of utilitarianism. The examples of John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham epitomize this reality.
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