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Utilitarianism is a relativistic moral theory, for it recognizes that what is good in some circumstances is not always good in others |
False |
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What has value because people value it has intrinsic value |
False |
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The reason that Mill believes pleasure is the only intrinsic good is because he believes it is the only thing that everyone desires for its own sake |
True |
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According to utilitarian moral theory, happiness is an instrumental good. |
False |
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Utilitarianism is an egoistic moral theory |
False |
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Utilitarianism is a moral theory that holds that we ought to promote utility and not pleasure |
True |
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According to utilitarianism, an act that makes some people happy and others unhappy can never be morally right |
False |
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Both Bentham and Mill hold that some pleasures are better in kind than others |
False |
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According to act utilitarianism, if it produces more net utility or pleasure to give money that I had promised to return to a friend to famine relief instead, then I ought to give it to the relief fund |
True |
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The following is an example of the reasoning of a rule utilitarian: "If the practice of lying is bad, then one ought not to lie now, even if in this case to lie would actually bring out better consequences." |
True |
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According to Bentham, some pleasures may be more valuable than others but only in so far as they are of greater intensity or duration. |
True |
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In his Utilitarianism, Mill answers those who say that his theory is a crass pleasure theory fit only for beast by noting that though it is a pleasure theory, it acknowledges a wide variety of pleasures including those that only humans can experience. |
True |
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According to Mill, the only way to prove that something is desirable in itself (as an end) is to notice that people do desire it. |
True |
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In the reading from Utilitarianism Mill writes that we have learned by experience that murder and theft are wrong because they are generally injurious to human happiness |
True |
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In his work, Utilitarianism, Mill’s test or basis for distinguishing higher from lower pleasures is the preference of those who have experience of both |
True |
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The trolley problem is used to illustrate which of the following? |
The complexity of calculating morality using a cost benefit anlysis |
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According to the text, approximately how many people have leaped to their death from the Golden Gate Bridge? |
1400 |
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Which of the following was not one of the founders of utilitarianism? |
Rene Descartes |
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Which of the following is not included in calculating the amount of happiness? |
Cost |
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According to utilitarianism which of the following is useful for evaluating the morality of an action? |
The result |
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According to utilitarianism which of the following is an intrinsic good? |
Pleasure |
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Which of the following is not necessary to act morally according to utilitarianism? |
To act as the majority wishes |
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Rule Utilitarianism asks that we consider the consequences of each act |
As a general practice |
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