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Utilitarianism is the view that the action that one is morally compelled to take in any given situation can be characterised as that which produces the greatest total utility and the smallest total harm. ...

Proportionalism, like any normative ethic, seeks to provide moral agents with a guide to act in a moral way. However due to its emphasis on the notion of proportionate reason, it may be questioned as to w...

The analytic/synthetic distinction is the claim that all statements can be classified as either synthetic or analytic. An analytic statement’s truth value can be determined simply by knowing the meaning o...

First, you regroup all numbers which are not factors of x on one side of the equation:
4x = 1 - 3.5
so 4x = - 2.5
Then, you isolate x:
x = - 2.5/4
x = - 5/8 = - 0.625

first of all we need the resolve the diagonal force into its horizontal and vertical components. Using trigonometry you can deduce that the horizontal component equates to 8Cos30 and the vertical componen...