Essays on Egalitarianism

In Tom Regan's article “The Case for Animal Rights,” he makes the case for the rights of animals on the basis of equal treatment of all living things that possess inherent value. He argues that morality should be centered on the equal treatment of all living entities, rather than the reduction of suffering and the amplification of pleasure. Consequently, Regan's involvement in the animal rights movement is based on three issues: the elimination of all commercial forms of animal testing, animal agriculture and animal hunting. Ultimately, Regan's argument stands as a sound defense for animal rights on the grounds ...

PHIL 434 Medical Ethics

Short answers 3 point seach What is medical tourism? Medical tourism is “where patients travel overseas for operations and various invasive therapies.” (Connell 2006, p. 1093).

What are 3 reasons people choose surgeries/procedures in other countries?

1. Economics – Even with health insurance, many procedures can be performed for a fraction of the cost overseas. 2. Quality of care – quality of care is increasing around the world to the near equivalent of Western countries. 3. More options- Even with health insurance, many patients find their health insurance companies limit the kinds of procedures they are able to receive.

What is the commoditization of care?

Turning health care into a commodity that is undifferentiated from other competing ...

Introduction

Many philosophers have identified various branches of egalitarianism. One such branch is the luck egalitarianism philosophy, which recognizes distinctive interpretations and critiques. Elizabeth Anderson formulates a distinctive branch of egalitarianism that opposes luck egalitarianism, namely the democratic equality philosophy. This essay will first delineate the main points of Anderson’s opposition to luck egalitarianism and democratic equality. After this review, there will be applied an insightful analysis of the presented principles, which will be opposed. For a balanced presentation, there will also be provided a response to the identified objections.

Section 1

Elizabeth Anderson is one of the major critics of ...

Hitler: First of all, the philosophy of fascism is based on the ideas of nationalism and a strict system of social division. In the philosophy of fascism every person has its own role in the society as well as its own function. Overall, fascism is a political and nationalistic set of views and ideas. Stalin: everything is quite to the contrary with communism. The first serious divergence consists in the fact that communism is rather an economic philosophy than a political one. The core economic idea of it is that all people should be equal, everything should be possessed ...

Henry is a strong supporter of Egalitarianism, who argues that all human beings are equal and hence deserve equal chances. However from this excerpt, Henry is in support of elitism when it comes to shaping the American education system which he argues to have failed. Of most importance to note is the fact that elitism completely contradicts the main principles of egalitarianism. Henry argues that the American education system should be restructured so that only a few remain to offer degree and diploma programs. The rest (the majority of the community colleges) he thinks should be used to provide ...

The leadership all over the globe is the influence of the person to accomplish their objectives. This memorandum is written to discuss the factors of the effectiveness of leadership. Further, this memo discusses how different country’s cultures effects the leadership principles.

Concept Of Leadership

Leadership requires a number of abilities and willpower in a person to accomplish its desired goals. A good leader is required to have a habit of conducting a continuous process of self-study, training, and gaining experiences. It is the ability of a person through which it could gather workers in to theta. A person is not a leader since birth ...

One of the people who are referred to as heroes is certainly Rosa Parks, whose name is equaled with African American plight for egalitarianism. Her calm and peaceful persona allowed her to accept all the unfairness African Americans were subjected to, but one time she had to step up and remain seated on a bus. This proved to be the catalyst of the already ongoing plight for equality, and after Rosa Parks’ ordeal, the African American community became even more fervent in their struggle for freedom.

True heroes are those who do not hurt others in their endeavor, who persevere ...

Introduction

This study revolves around distributive justice, which explains the nature of a socially and fair distribution of goods in a social organization (Thomas and Werhane, 223). A society in which subsidiary disparity in outcome does not arise would be considered a society guided by the principles of distributive justice.

Each society consists of economic structures that define them in terms of its laws, institutions, policies, which form an integral part of these structures. These frameworks continually vary from one society to another (Thomas and Werhane, 223). Thus the arguments as to which of the societal structures are a more acceptable result of what ...

2-1. Food Foragers, Hunting and Gathering, and ‘Insulting the Meat’ and Egalitarianism

Food Foragers Food foragers are essentially ‘in tune’ with their environment such that they have developed the senses and the skills to forage for food. Foragers survive by fishing, hunting, and gathering edible plants in their surroundings. Since foraging not only requires skill but also shared efforts among people in the community. For this reason, foragers were the ones that put together the fabric of ‘community’. “It was as foragers that we became truly human, acquiring the basic habits of dealing with one another and with the world around us that still guide the behaviour of individuals, communities, ...

The relationship between rich and poor, and the examination of class issues, in literature and art is always a fascinating proposition. Many works, through their structuring, messaging plot and characters, can be read through a Marxist lens – namely, the literary perspective which aligns with the philosophies and teachings of socialist writer and thinker Karl Marx. In Marxist criticism, works are viewed as lenses through which to view the sociopolitical worlds in which they were created (or are being viewed) (Eagleton, 1976). Art is political, particularly in a Marxist lens, and the works The Kite Runner and King Lear are no exception. Both ...

Cohen and Socialism I: Justice and Personal Behavior

- Who is G. A. Cohen? Gerald Allan (G.A.) "Jerry" Cohen (1941-2009) was raised in a communist family in Montreal, Canada. He later obtained his political philosophy there and then a doctorate in England. As professor at a university in Oxford, England, Cohen held analytic philosophical, Marxist, and egalitarian views. His notable ideas concern egalitarian ethos and strict difference principle. Some of Cohen’s works include a defense of Marxism, egalitarianism, justice, equality, socialism, as well as, other topics on moral and political philosophy. His political philosophical works, or refutations of others’ works, has been widely read, commented, critiqued and praised. Before ...

Abstract

The scientific project deals with leadership styles, their types, and influence on workplace attitudes and behavior. There are two major categories of styles, such as leader-centered and follower-centered styles. The first category includes authoritative, aka autocratic, transactional, and charismatic styles where leader’s personality is the focal one. The second category includes participative, servant, and transformational styles that cultivate employees as the most valuable organizational assets. Such additional styles as laissez-faire, quiet leader, and coercive one are given scientific scrutiny. The influence of each style on working attitudes and employees’ behavior are also considered based on the opinions of ...

Pragmatism

Around 1870 in the United States, the philosophical tradition of pragmatism began, with the most notable early pragmatists being John Dewey, William James, and Charles Sanders Pierce. The core of the philosophy was the pragmatist maxim, which was tracing the hypotheses and their contents back to their ‘practical consequences.’ Dewey, a leader in the field of the study of education, looks at the pragmatic situation as having a pattern of inquiry which he equates to a practical method of solving problems. This system involves checking one’s surroundings, using his scientific method of inquiry to solve problems, and when first faced with a ...

Book Review - The Concept of Jacksonian Democracy: New York as a Test Case

In The Concept of Jacksonian Democracy: New York as a Test Case, Lee Benson performs a unique and progressive study of the political culture of New York State in the 19th century. Through his work, Benson presents his central thesis: there was no true "Jacksonian" democracy; the author finds the idea "sterile and deceptive" (Benson, 1961). Benson distrusted the prevailing narrative regarding Jacksonian democracy, in which economic status was the indicator of partisanship, in favor of a much more complex focus on ethnicity and religious affiliation. In short, Benson seeks to correct what he feels is a grievous error with regards to how ...

On broad perspective, biocentrism is a word which is derived from the words ‘bio’ and ‘central’, which mean life and being the centre of focus respectively. Biocentrism is a theory that was posited by Robert Lanza, an American doctor back in 2007. The main hypothesis of the theory is that biology is the central of everything on earth. As such, it can be applied in understanding all the other aspects of life. He argues that physics is the branch of science which helps in understanding the physical nature of the world while chemistry helps in the understanding of life. However, he ...

Introduction

Toulouse, France is the location of the headquarters of Airbus SAS. This is a multinational aviation company, the ownership of which is shared by Aeronautic Defence and Space Company N.V. (EADS). In this work, we will study the issues of cross-cultural communication which were responsible for a delay in the Globe’s project’s cluster of business cultures. The delay of A380 and subsequent losses of Airbus can be explained with the help of the Globe project, to which we will turn to. In this essay, we will try to find a connection between cross-cultural communication and the technical deficiencies of Airbus ...

This assignment has been formulated such that a detailed study can be provided to the readers with respect to Cross Cultural Management. In the following assignment, Cross – Cultural Issues faced by the Airbus Consortium have been discussed, along with the various efforts they took to try and manage them. Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) Project has also been discussed about in the following assignment, which helps to provide a better understanding so as to where exactly Airbus went wrong such that it had to face the various issues. Thus, in turn, provides a better understanding on how to tackle the ...

Abstract

The following essay analyzes this particular poem from the perspective of history and the tumultuous times of the middle 19th century America. In this time of great unrest and fight for civil rights, as well as for the basic rights of every human being, Walt Whitman chose to address this highly relevant issue in the development of America and its treatment of its citizens by writing a long poem in free verse in which he expressed his, what were considered radical democratic viewpoints. His belief was simple: treat others like you would like to be treated. He believed in egalitarianism, ...

Introduction:

This paper analyzes and explains how the social class play influences social inequality in Australia, as well as how the myth of egalitarianism was created and how it is maintained. It also shows how inequality has influenced transformations in political, familial and industrial relations and how it has to be taken into account when endeavoring to come to grip with all kinds of inequalities. Due to changes in the societies, the is need to recollect the ideas of different classes, ethnical backgrounds, gender inequalities, political class, and embed them in the self, body and politics.

There is a long history ...