Pleasure versus Virtue Ethics in The Light of Aristotelians and the Utilitarianism of John Stuart Mills and Jeremy Bentham

The question of the end of morality is certainly as old as moral speculation itself. It is this question that prompted Aristotle speculating on moral or character virtue. Moral question is properly a human question since only human beings are expected to act in a given way and are subject to praise and reward or blame and punishment. We should remember that also God and angels are expected to act in a given way, but that would, strictly speaking, be the subject of moral theology and revelation, since without revelation depending only on reason, we cannot examine the acts of God and angels in order to determine how they should act. In short, it is only human beings who can be judged to act morally or immorally if we depend only on human reason, without the support of revelation. In the whole work, Stuart Mills and Jeremy Bentham stick on happiness, though each differ in approaches. Consequentialists are after the greatest happiness of the greatest number, by advocating on the struggle to that which may make man happy and avoid evil by all means. Aristotle on his side is on eudaimonism, where man is found to be happy but moral happy. Happiness for Aristotle should be reasonable, morally good and means should be maintained. This research is analytical by nature, where both qualitative and analytical methods have been implemented throughout the work. The work has been successful though some challenges could not be avoided. Finally, in doing or acting, man should observe virtue; and this is always doing good and avoiding evil.  

U-Learning ? the Design and Evaluation of Evocative Learning Based Method for Futuristic Ubiquitous Educational Learning Environment

Technology has travelled a long way from an analogue world to a digital age, where our interaction in the virtual world is leading us towards virtual reality. Ubiquitous learning can be considered as a pattern in erudition grounded on ubiquitous latest technologies usage through smart devices. Ubiquitous learning can also be explained as the learning setting aided by embedded computers, mobile and wireless networks in our day-to-day life. Aim is to provide interaction and content to learners anywhere, anytime and by any device. This technological revolution has not only taken forward the learning process but has also completely changed the mode of learning and knowledge sharing. At present, there exist other frameworks too, but they are centered towards different paradigms (restricted to mobile learning), and point of view pertaining to UL, hence requiring an innovation driven. As, existing frameworks are centered towards mobile learning environments hence there exists a need to add dimensions of permanency, accessibility, immediacy, interactivity, context awareness and adaptability. These have not been integrated together in existing research. The research will gage the level of awareness of UL and will analyze the contribution of various factors that are responsible for the rate of adoption of UL. The outcome of this research work will lead towards coming up with a framework which if applied in any academic setup will lead to the effective delivery of the futuristic ubiquitous educational learning environment.