An act-utilitarian could endorse which of the following?

- Right actions are those that maximize good consequence

Which of the following ideas DOES NOT suppost the Catagorical Imperatives of immanuel Kant?

- As free rational beings, persons are directly responsible for the decisions they make

John Stuart Mill argues that it is better to be:

- Dissatisfied if you crave only low quality pleasures

“Act as though the maxim of your action were by your will to become a universal law of nature.”
This is is the principle of the ____________.

- Law of nature

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is
for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as what we shall do" is what Jermy Bentham
wants to emphasize in his hedonistic utlitarian principle. Which of the following ideas support this
claim from Jeremy Bentham!

- Pig principle

Social contract ethics given all the principles is also a form of _______________.

- Ethical egoism

The lying objection claims that utilitarianism is to be rejected because it leads to the counterintuitive
endorsement of lying when it serves the greater good.

- True

If Utilitarianism follows the principle of overridingness, Deontology follows the principle of

- Universalizability

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 Jeremy Bentham’s concept of utilitarianism is simply to maximize pleasure and:

- Minimizing suffering

Which type of ethics is sometimes referred to as consequentialism?

- Teleological ethics

You can normally foresee the long-term consequences of your actions, so a utilitarian can be
confident in knowing that an act has actual rightness.

- False

According to St.Thomas Aquinas, we have a special mental process called synderesis that gives us
general knowledge of moral goodness .This idea that humans have a natural faculty that gives us an
intuitive awareness of morality is called by what theoretical principle?

- Intuitionism

According to Raionalism, morality is founded entirely on the contingencies of human nature and
based on desire.

- False

a contract is said to binding if it has the following features, EXCEPT

- Enforced by law (?)

Which of the following ideas is an example of Deontology?

- Center of valua is act

What scheme or method did Jeremy Bentham invent to measure pleasure and pain, to assist in
making proper decisions?

- Hedonistic calculus

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 If Kant's Categorical imperative advocates the principle of universalizabiltiy, william D. Ross
advocates the principle of ______________

- Prima facie

One of the strengths of utilitarianism is:

- It tunes into a recognizable material core of helping people and alleviating suffering.

Contract involves cooperation according to Thomas Hobbes. This is is BESt explain by which ideas
in the options?

- When one is giving up a degree of freedom: one agrees to behave in certain ways, and agrees
not to behave in other ways.

Which of the following examples does not express a justice objection to rule-utilitarianism?

- The sheriff who frames an innocent tramp for a crime to head off a riot (?)

Which of the following ideas does not support the social contract theory?

- Rationality

William D. Ross, as a rule-intuitionist provided three components of his understanding of

- our intuitive duties are not absolute; every principle can be overridden by another in a
particular situation

eontologists believe that guilty people should be punished in proportion to the gravity of their crimes,
with no exception to the punishment.
-true

According to Thomas Hobbes, his principle of self - interest includes the following ideas, EXCEPT:

- state of nature

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 “If you want a good job, then get a good education,”. This statement is an example of Kant's
_______________.

- Hypothetical imperative

According to Immanuel Kant, pleasure and happiness are the only goods, and pain and unhappiness
the only evils – they concluded that actions are right in so far as they promote the greatest happiness
of the greatest number and wrong in so far as they diminish it.

- True

Deontological theory is a consequentialist ethics.

- False

Who is the utilitarian hedonist who tried explain pleasure by distinguishing between higher pleasures
of the mind and lower pleasures of the body . ( Full name)

- John stuart mill

Jeremy Bentham focuses on which of the following in determining the rightness or wrongness of
action?

- The quantity of pleasures and pains produced

millionaire makes a dying request for a man, a staunch supporter of Deontology, to donate
$5 million to the Yankees. What should the deontologist do?

- give the money to the Yankees as promised to the dying millionaire

the Principle of the law of nature includes the following idas, EXCEPT:

- universalizability

Accrording to immanuel Kant, morality is not contingent but ____________ because a moral
agent is not slave of his passions.

- Necessary

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 An act-utilitarian could endorse which of the following?

- Right actions are those that maximize good consequences.

it is our ability to use reason in universalizing the maxims of our actions that sets rational
beings apart from nonrational beings is true to Kant's _____________.

- Ci

What type of utilitarianism focuses on the set of rules that are most likely to bring about the
most good in a situation, rather than focusing on the consequences of particular actions?

- Rule-utilitarianism

which of the following ideas advocates Empiricism as a philosophical doctrine?

- Our minds are a tabula rasa, an empty slate, upon which experience writes her
lessons.

The hypothetical imperative states that each person has the ability to arrive at a moral code
by reason alone.

- False

John Stuart Mill transforms Bentham’s utilitarianism by:

- Emphasizing the nonhedonic aspects of good consequences (?)

Which of the following is not one of the traditional principles in soving dilemma?

- use of theoretical principles

Adding up the amounts of pleasure and pain for each possible act and then comparing the
scores would enable us to decide which act to perform summarizes the principle of Jeremy
Bentham called the _______________.

- Hedonic calculus

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 _________ is the type of utilitarianism that states that we ought to consider the consequences
of the act per- formed as a general practice.

- Act utilitarianism

Jeremy Bentham focuses on which of the following in determining the rightness or

- The quantity of pleasures and pains produced

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