philosophers
He advocated that we should do what's best for the most amount of people.
Who is Bentham?
In this philosophy, you do what's best for the most people, so you would eat the ill cabin boy.
What is utilitarianism?
He wears plain clothes and strives to give up material desires.
What is a monk?
The musican who visited a patient in a hospital following a concert, perhaps for categorical reasons, perhaps for hypothetical reasons.
Who is Grande?
This philosopher advocated for limited government, natural rights, (life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness), and state rights.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
For this philosopher, individual rights are most important.
Who is Nozick?
The government can't tell you to wear a selt belt, or not drink a Big Gulp, or limit your sexuality, or even not sell your kidney according to this philosophy.
What is libertarianism?
The religion that is most often associated with serving as a monk.
What is Buddhism?
The ethics involved in the design of this product could be considered the most applicable to the ethics of the trolley problem.
What are self-driving cars, or AI cars?
Existentialist Soren Kierkegaard claimed that people do not BLANK as much as they BLANK.
What is "think" and "speak"?
Who is Kant?
In Kant's view, you should not use this type of thinking, in which you're always considering the outcome.
What is hypothetical?
Floyd Landis turned in this person because he felt as if the telos of U.S. Cycling did not involve using illegal performance enhancing drugs.
Who is Armstrong?
According to Robert Nozick, this is a type of theft committed by the government.
What are taxes?
(specifically, taxes that are redistributed to help those less fortunate)
Nietzsche claimed that suffering inherently leads to BLANK.
What is "strength"?
This philosopher suggested we should be careful that shadows aren't more important to us than reality.
Who is Plato?
What is telos?
In the extreme version of this economic philosophy, children are allowed to work in factories, and companies can pollute the rivers, if they offer a cheaper product.
What is capitalism?
This artist wrote a song about the illusion of Nike.
Who is Macklemore?
Like Socrates, this philosopher mathematician was murdered for expressing her views.
Who is Hypatia?
In the 19th century, he advocated for sharing wealth, and warned against job loss, and loss of enjoyment of work, due to improved technology.
Who is Marx?
The two main aspects of this thinking - which Kant supports, are universal law (do what you want everyone to do), and humanity as ends (treat each human the same, regardless of their position in life or capacity to help you).
What is categorical?
This philosopher developed a thought experiment that posited that people would want less of an income gap if they were starting a new society, and had no idea where they would end up.
Who is Rawls?
What is Omelas?
Philosopher Benedict Anderson said: “In an age when it is so common for progressive, cosmopolitan intellectuals to insist on the near-pathological character of BLANK, its roots in fear and hatred of the Other, and its affinities with racism, it is useful to remind ourselves that BLANK inspire love, and often profoundly self-sacrificing love.”
What is "nationalism" and "nations"?