Deviance

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This paper examines the opinions of Plato, Aristotle, Michael Foucault and John Stuart Mill on the issues of deviance. It discusses how deviant behavior is defined as that behavior which strays from what is deemed normative in a society and that formal and informal social controls attempt to minimize deviance.

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"Aristotle wrote the seminal philosophical work on ethics entitled just that: Nicomachean Ethics. It is the bible of ethicists and the bane of many college freshmen. The principal idea with which Aristotle begins is that there are differences of opinion about what is best for humans, and that prior to making further philosophical inquiry, we must first establish the answer to the question, "what is ethics?" Aristotle insists that ethics is not merely a theoretical disciple. Rather, he explains that it has great practical application. It is then that he states that the search for the good is a search for the highest good."

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