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Sep 11, 2024 · Life without Principle: Three Essays contains Thoreau’s "Civil Disobedience" (published 1849), his justification for refusing to pay certain taxes, on the grounds that he did not want to support the United States’ unprovoked 1846 invasion of Mexico.
Sep 8, 2024 · - Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle [Life without Principle evolved from the lecture "Life Misspent," also called "Misspent Lives," which was likely one of the lectures he delivered in Lowell in 1860.]
Sep 4, 2024 · However, analysis of Thoreau's personal life is decidedly at variance with these precepts which are found in "Life Without Principle." Even a casual observation of the author's relationship with Emerson indicates that Thoreau was definitely "indifferent to his means of earning a living, or, perhaps even preferred living at the expense of another.
Sep 9, 2024 · Utilitarianism, in normative ethics, a tradition stemming from the late 18th- and 19th-century English philosophers and economists Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill according to which an action is right if it tends to promote happiness and wrong if it tends to produce the reverse of happiness.
2 days ago · Altruism, as observed in populations of organisms, is when an individual performs an action at a cost to itself (in terms of e.g. pleasure and quality of life, time, probability of survival or reproduction) that benefits, directly or indirectly, another individual, without the expectation of reciprocity or compensation for that action.
Sep 13, 2024 · The idea of free will is one aspect of the mind–body problem, that is, consideration of the relation between mind (for example, consciousness, memory, and judgment) and body (for example, the human brain and nervous system). Philosophical models of mind are divided into physical and non-physical expositions.
Sep 14, 2024 · What is ethics? How is ethics different from morality? Why does ethics matter? Is ethics a social science? ethics, the discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad and morally right and wrong. The term is also applied to any system or theory of moral values or principles. (Read Britannica’s biography of this author, Peter Singer.)
