Ahmed Demir (philosopher)

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Doctor

Ahmed Ali Khalid Demir
EducationDoctor of Philosophy
Alma materUniversity of Manchester
Notable work
Utilitarianism and Politics, On The Conditions of the Sharifistani Worker and A Commentary on John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism.
Spouse(s)Aisha Demir (m.1965), Afet Demir (m. 2018)
Partner(s)Ayeleen Demir (2017-)
AwardsPolitical Philosopher of the Year 2005 (Madinat Al-Islam University philosophy awards)
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionMiddle East
SchoolUtilitarianism
InstitutionsMadinat Al-Islam University, University College London
ThesisUtilitarianism and the Sharifistani Conscription System
Doctoral advisorDr. Vincent De Clifford
Notable studentsMuhammad Ali Khan
Main interests
Ethics, aesthetics and political philosophy
Notable ideas
Beauty in art is to promote a higher form of pleasure and "The Sharifistani Way is tyranny of the minority".
Influences
  • John Stuart Mill, Plato, Jeremy Benthamn, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Aristotle and Socrates.
Influenced
  • the Sharifistani Utilitarian Society, The Communist Party of Sharifistan

Ahmed Ali Khalid Demir is a Utilitarian philosopher from Sharifistan known for his application of John Stuart Mill's form of Utilitarianism to aesthetics, arguing the beauty is defined as promoting pleasure (especially the higher pleasures of the mind), and for his criticism of the Sharifistani government.

Early life

Born the in 1940 to an enginneer and his wife in the City of Industry, he grew up with intellectual curiousity and sensitivity to situations he percieved as unfair.