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This 5 page paper considers the issue of terrorism, first by relating how a terrorist might defend their actions using the arguments of Kant and the Utilitarian perspective of John Stuart Mill, then considers who a both a Kantian and Utilitarian opponent to terrorism might relate to this issue. This paper utilizes the text of Kant's Political Writings and arguments from Mill's Utilitarianism. No additional sources cited.
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of these reflections have been invaluable in defining discourse on specific components of political interaction. Philosophers like Kant and the Utilitarians, including John Stuart Mill, have considered whether the
"end justifies the means" in regards to specific actions and their desired political outcomes. The views of Kant and Mill relative to the issue of terrorism provide an interesting
insight into the issue of political action and whether this "end" justifies the "means" in creating political change. Terrorism can be described as seemingly random acts of violence
enacted by an individual or collective for the means of shaping political change or maintaining the current political status in the midst of political change. The central notion of
terrorism is that violence defines power and that control can be determined by the use of acts of force and destruction to gain a specific desired political reaction. A
terrorist might defend their actions utilizing the political and philosophical premises presented by Kant and Mill by arguing first that their political cause necessitated the terrorist actions. Kant believed
that the highest task that nature defines for mankind is that of establishing a "society in which freedom under external laws would be combined to the greatest possible extent with
irresistible force" and the result would be the establishment of the perfect civil constitution (Kant 45-46). Mans complicity in the development of the central notion of a world order
is defined not only by humanity, but by the development of a perfect moral condition, and that more often than not, man is forced into conditions where he must "endure
the hardest of evils under the guise of outward prosperity" (Kant 49). Challenge, then, for Kant, would come from the inherent process that man experiences as he moves
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