Quick Quiz

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Quick Quiz

• Ethical Theories

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Utilitarianism

• For a utilitarian, actions are right as they
• Produce the best consequences
• Produce the most consequences
• Tend to produce the best consequences
• Tend to limit the most harm
• Follow the correct rules of morality

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Utilitarianism

• Bentham uses his Hedonic Calculus to
• Measure how many hedons are present in pleasure.
• Establish the relative values of different
  pleasures.
• Help us reach our personal goals.
• Justify the mathematical nature of morality.
• Complicate the simplicity of ordinary ethics.

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Utilitarianism

• Utilitarianism is a demanding theory because
• it is difficult to calculate what to do.
• no one can figure out how to cause pleasure.
• there will be conflicts between our duties and
  our interests.
• Bentham and Mill were bossy people.
• self-improvement is its first goal.

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Utilitarianism

• Getting a relaxing massage is superior to
  drinking a case of Special Export because it
  isnt followed by great pain. It is superior in
  terms of
• Fecundity
• Purity
• Certainty
• Propinquity
• Extent

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Utilitarianism

• Every Mozart tune is good, while Nickelbacks
  written some real dogs. Mozart excels over
  Nickelback in terms of
• Fecundity
• Purity
• Certainty
• Propinquity
• Extent

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Utilitarianism

• When utilitarianism tells the doctor to knock you
  out and take your organs for those needy Nobel
  Prize wieners, it seems weak regarding
• Justice
• Friendliness
• Individual rights
• Fecundity
• Deontology

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Utilitarianism

• When utilitarianism tells Marshall Dillon to let
  the bank robbing murderer go for the sake of
  increasing happiness, it seems weak regarding
• Justice
• Friendliness
• Individual rights
• Fecundity
• Deontology

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Utilitarianism

• Bentham and Mill agree that the word good
  should be understood to mean
• Right
• The highest value
• Obligatory
• Pleasure, and happiness
• Highly evolved

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Deontology

• For Kant, the only thing good unconditionally is
• pleasure
• courage
• virtue
• a good will
• a good time

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Deontology

• For Kant, an action has moral worth only if it is
  done
• in accordance with duty
• from a sense of duty
• with a measure of good will
• through a motive of love
• to cause the most pleasure possible

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Deontology

• The contradictions in Kants ethics
• have plagued Kant scholars for decades
• are strange, but since he rejects reason, they
  are not problematic
• yield perfect and imperfect duties
• make his theory unacceptable until they are
  resolved
• a and d

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Deontology

• Kant tries to show that morality is based on
• Duty
• Rationality
• Love
• Transcendental philosophy
• Apperception

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Deontology

• If you want to do something, but reflection shows
  you wouldnt like it if everyone else acted that
  way, you have
• A perfect duty to refrain
• An imperfect duty to refrain
• Continence
• Incontinence
• Viciousness

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Deontology

• Kants theory answers the question, Why be
  moral?, by
• suggesting you are unloving otherwise
• suggesting you are mean otherwise
• suggesting you are stupid otherwise
• suggesting you are incorrigible otherwise
• suggesting you are irrational otherwise

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Deontology

• A problem for Kants theory is
• how an action should be described before testing
  it with the categorical imperative
• why anyone should think being consistent is part
  of being moral
• contradictions usually show theories are bad
• A and B
• A and C

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Answers

1. C
2. B
3. C
4. A
5. C
6. C
7. A
8. D
9. D
10. B
11. C
12. B
13. B
14. E
15. D