Utilitarianism

Part I of Essay
The basic underlying philosophical idea of upholds the belief that the action that creates the highest aggregate happiness is the morally right thing to do. Furthermore, if an action were to lower the aggregate of happiness then that action would not be morally justifiabl ....

Part II of Essay
.... let alone the situations where it can be advantageous to society, the slave, or both. The society in which we are living in today is one of many ideas that are not original to any individual person. Many of the ideas and "facts" that people live with in today's world are given to us by society. Through a very informal experiment conducted by myself as a precursor to the writing of this tutorial I found that a majority of people associate the word slavery only with the horrible condition and treatment that slaves of the confederate states ....