Course Code: GNED 212-087
Techy, Society, Ethics and Environment
Name of Assignment: Philosophical Model
Prepared for: Professor Rosina Agyepong
Prepared by: Zubair Hashmi
Due Date: Oct 01, 2014

Introduction:
What is Philosophical Model? A model is considered to be a representation of some object, behaviour, or system that one wants to understand.
The Philosophical model is based on these theories of ethics, * Utilitarianism * Virtue Ethics * Deontology * Natural Law
Utilitarianism:
Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill are the most important utilitarians. Their theory has had an important impact on philosophical work in moral theory and on approaches to economic, political and social policy Utilitarianism is one of the best known and most influential moral theories. Like other form of Consequentialism, it core idea is that whether actions are morally right or wrong depends on their effects. More, specifically, the only effects of actions that are relevant are the good and bad results that they produce. A key point in utilitarianism concerns the distinction between individual actions and types of actions. Utilitarianism believe that the purpose of morality is to make life better by increasing the amount of good things, (such as pleasure and happiness) in the world and decreasing the amount of bad things (such as pain and unhappiness). Utilitarianism thinks that what makes a morality be true or justifiable is its positive contribution to human. The difference between Act utilitarianism and rule utilitarianism is that the Act utilitarianism stresses the specific context and the many individual feathers of the situations that pose moral problems, and it presents a single method for dealing with these individual cases. Rule utilitarianism stresses the recurrent features of human life and the ways in which similar needs and problems