Morality and Social Responsibility: Mills, Kant, and Aristotle

MORALITY AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
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Institution Introduction
Morality can be defined as the ideal characteristics people are required to conduct themselves in a particular society or culture. Social responsibility is the way a person or an entity carries themselves for the benefit of the whole community. Three theories brought forward by Mills, Immanuel Kant, and Aristotle feature issues that reflect the society and culture at large. This essay is going to look how this theory reflects current cultures.
Mills moral and political philosophy is mainly concerned with five topics, that is, Utilitarianism, Liberalism, liberal democracy, and sexual equality (Brink, 2014). Mills principle of utility argues that only happiness is desirable, thus, an agent ultimate desire is to improve his interest or pleasure (Brink, 2014). Regarding happiness and higher pleasures, Mills points out that they come in different qualities, thus making some pleasures more quality than others. Thus for this reasons he concludes that better or higher pleasures are more useful or valuable than the lower pleasures, but discontinuous in availability. Utilitarianism holds that moral action is the one that maximizes utility. The utility does not only include quantity, but the quality of pleasure and it focuses on rules (Brink, 2014). Kant's theory suggests that understanding and sensibility are two different things (Johnson, 2014). Understanding makes human hold on to an open society while sensitivity gives humans a sensible society. He defines mathematics and physics as the perceptions after which reason might survive freely of all experience.
Aristotle theory under pheinomena and endoxic method, begins with the conviction that our perceptual and cognitive faculties are dependable (Kraut, 2014). An endoxa is an opinion people spontaneously regard as reputable and worthy of respect. Aristostle calls logic the correct reasoning that the basic components of argument are given regarding inclusion and exclusion relations. He says that science arguments are more than mere d...