Finally, following Foot's lead, one might adopt a sort of consequentialism that argues that virtuous activity ultimately produces the best consequences.

In his article, " From the Imaginary Signifier: Identification, Mirror ," Christian Metz argues that viewing film is only possible through scopophilia ( pleasure from looking, related to voyeurism ), which is best exemplified in silent film.

Dworkin argues that law is an ' interpretive ' concept, that requires judges to find the best fitting and most just solution to a legal dispute, given their constitutional traditions.

** Welfarism, which argues that the best action is the one that most increases economic well-being or welfare.

Instead Waltz argues that it would probably be the best possible outcome, as it would restore stability to the Middle East by balancing Israel's regional monopoly on nuclear weapons.

He argues that the Church and the State are a single corrupt institution which does not act in the best interests of the people — both must be radically altered:

Graulich argues that the Toltec era is best considered the fourth of the Five Aztec mythical " Suns " or ages, the one immediately preceding the fifth sun of the Aztec people, presided over by Quetzalcoatl.

It argues for the existence of mathematical entities as the best explanation for experience, thus stripping mathematics of being distinct from the other sciences.

Tariq Modood argues that in the early years of the 21st Century, multiculturalism " is most timely and necessary, and [...] we need more not less ", since it is " the form of integration " that ( 1 ) best fits the ideal of egalitarianism, ( 2 ) has " the best chance of succeeding " in the " post-9 / 11, post 7 / 7 " world, and ( 3 ) has remained " moderate pragmatic ".

Cheek argues that Calhoun is best understood as a representative of the South Atlantic tradition of agrarian republicanism.

The best summary of David Jones ' attitude to art and religion is contained in his essay, " Art and Sacrament " ( included in Epoch and Artist ), which explores the meaning of signs and symbols in everyday life, relates them to Roman Catholic teachings such as the dogma of transubstantiation, and argues that human beings are the only animals which create " gratuitous " works, thus making them creators analogous to God.

The musicologist Hugh Macdonald argues that Bizet's best orchestral music is found in the suites that he derived respectively from the piano work Jeux d ' enfants and the incidental music for L ' Arlésienne.

Nevertheless, he argues Ephialtes was the one who revealed this trail because " the deputies of the Greeks, the Pylagorae, who must have had the best means for ascertaining the truth, did not offer the reward on the heads of Onetas and Corydallus, but for that of Ephialtes of Trachis.

" In Letters to a Young Conservative, written as an introduction to conservative ideas for youth, D ' Souza argues that it is a blend of classical liberalism and ancient virtue, in particular, " the belief that there are moral standards in the universe and that living up to them is the best way to have a full and happy life.

Countering the response that the best way to ensure that progressive forces, not reactionary ones, dominate post-occupation Iraq would be for progressives to take the lead in fighting the occupation, Ketabchi argues that this is not possible due to the present situation in Iraq.

The young brain contains many more neurons than will ultimately survive to maturity and Edelman argues that this great redundant capacity is needed because neurons are the only cells in the body that cannot be renewed and because only those cells and networks best adapted to their ultimate purpose will be selected as they organise into neuronal groups.

In 1792 she published the work for which she is best remembered, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in the spirit of rationalism extending Price's arguments about equality to women: Tomalin argues that just as the Dissenters were " excluded as a class from education and civil rights by a lazy-minded majority ", so too were women, and the " character defects of both groups " could be attributed to this discrimination.

This, Paine argues, is the best balance between government and society.

In the third section Paine examines the hostilities between England and the American colonies and argues that the best course of action is independence.

Music reviewer George Graham argues that the “ so-called ‘ smooth jazz ’ sound of people like Kenny G has none of the fire and creativity that marked the best of the fusion scene during its heyday in the 1970s ”.

" The best modern architecture ," he argues, " doesn't hold a mirror up to nature, though it may borrow a pleasing shape or expressive line from nature's copybook.

Although Milton recognizes individual right, he is not completely libertarian in Areopagitica as he argues that the status quo ante worked best.

He argues that a dispute is best characterized as " verbal " when it concerns some sentence S which contains a term T such that ( i ) the parties to the dispute disagree over the meaning of T, and ( ii ) the dispute arises solely because of this disagreement.

Anthropologist Dean Snow stated that though Franklin's Albany Plan may have drawn some inspiration from the Iroquois League, there is little evidence that either the Plan or the Constitution drew substantially from this source and argues that "... such claims muddle and denigrate the subtle and remarkable features of Iroquois government.

These proposals, however, are not seen as favorable by the U. S. federal government, which argues Guam does not have the financial stability or self sufficiency to warrant such status.

It argues that people should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice.

Although Rousseau argues that sovereignty ( or the power to make the laws ) should be in the hands of the people, he also makes a sharp distinction between the sovereign and the government.

Koo argues that it was massive fiscal stimulus ( borrowing and spending by the government ) that offset this decline and enabled Japan to maintain its level of GDP.

Paul Rahe, for instance, argues that the classical republics had a form of government with few links to those in any modern country.

Doug Stokes argues that it was not until the early part of the 1980s that the Colombian government attempted to move away from the counterinsurgency strategy represented by Plan Lazo and Yarborough's 1962 recommendations.

Fridell argues that scholars call the period 1868-1945 the " State Shinto period " because, " during these decades, Shinto elements came under a great deal of overt state influence and control as the Japanese government systematically utilized shrine worship as a major force for mobilizing imperial loyalties on behalf of modern nation-building.

Frank argues that Gandhi's assumption of emergency powers in 1975 resulted in the weakening of the " legitimate and impartial machinery of government ", and her increasing " paranoia " of opposing political groups led her to instigate a " despotic policy of playing castes, religions and political groups against each other for political advantage ".

Stateless capitalism argues that taxes are theft, that government and the business community complicit in governance is organized crime and is equivalent to the criminal underworld, and that defense of life and property is just another industry, which must be privatized.

He is sometimes considered to be the founding father of the laissez-faire economic theory, but in fact argues for some degree of government control in order to maintain equity.

Lysander Spooner, a 19th century lawyer and staunch supporter of a right of contract between individuals, in his essay No Treason, argues that a supposed social contract cannot be used to justify governmental actions such as taxation, because government will initiate force against anyone who does not wish to enter into such a contract.

Garland S. Tucker, in a 2010 book, argues that the election marked the " high tide of American conservatism ," as both major candidates campaigned for limited government, reduced taxes, and less regulation.

This is because argues Schakel ( 2008 ) " it is difficult to tell whether the expenditure is coming from conditional or unconditional grants, whether the central government is determining how the money should be spent, whether it is setting the framework legislation within which subnational governments implement, or whether − indeed − subnational governments are spending the money autonomously ".

Thus, Trotsky argues, because a majority of the branches of industry in Russia were originated under the direct influence of government measures — sometimes with the help of government subsidies — the capitalist class was again tied to the ruling elite.

Lusztig ( 1995 ) argues that his actions were sensible when considered in the context of his concern for preserving aristocratic government and a limited franchise in the face of threats from popular unrest.

Alan Greenspan argues that the very existence of antitrust laws discourages businessmen from some activities that might be socially useful out of fear that their business actions will be determined illegal and dismantled by government.

In the book, Fukuyama argues that the advent of Western liberal democracy may signal the end point of humanity's sociocultural evolution and the final form of human government.

The office of the Solicitor General argues on behalf of the government in virtually every case in which the United States is a party, and also argues in most of the cases in which the government has filed an amicus brief.

It now argues that reunification is possible only after the CCP regime in mainland China collapses and / or transitions to a democracy ( either as a new democratic government or with the re-establishment of Sun Yat-sen's Chinese Nationalist Party ( Kuomintang, KMT ) government which fled to the Taiwan Area after the Chinese Civil War ).