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Utilitarianism is impractical b/c bentham expects us 2 calculate every moral judgement 2 any legislative decision
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FALSE
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benthams felicific calculus when measuring the pleasure & pain of just a SINGLE pleasure takes in2 account 4 things...
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intensity
duration certainty remoteness or nearness |
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interest of the community is the sum of the interests of the memberswho make it up
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TRUE
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the utility of an action is determined by
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the tendency of that action 2 produce happiness
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bentham is only interested in the interest of..
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the community in general and individual
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bentham says that the goal of utilitarian system is 2 rear the fabric of felicity by hands of reason and law" means fabric of truthfullness TRUE OR FALSE?
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FALSE
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bentham says the goal of he utilitarian system is that using..
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our understanding and our government it is hoped that we can build a system of happiness
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bentham says that in trying 2 determine the good or bad tendency of an act.. 2 things must be considered..
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fecundity and purity
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benthams discussions of actions applies onlly 2 actions of ...
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governments, corporations, and individuals
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what makes this utilitarianism rather than egoism?
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"Extent"
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those who govern us should be
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elected and temporarily revocable by those governed
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milll trusts the democratic majority and leaders to do the right thing
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FALSE
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On liberty is about how much...
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control the govt ought to have over its citizens
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mills believes or doesnt believe that govt should act 2 prevent hte agent from harming other and should act to prevent the agen harming himself
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FALSE
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which more wrong--
ppl wanting govt to leap in correcting every evil or ppl dont want govt to get involved in many things |
leap in correcting every evil
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the premise for epicurus argument are death is nothing to us and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us
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FALSE its conclusion
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blackburn says we should resist...
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slippery slope reasoning
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blackburn thinks if unplugging someone on life support is playing god than..
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hooking someone up to life support is too
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a bad way 2 begin thinking about death is to try to imagine..
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what it will be like for me
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even if being dead is not a state someone is in it is still bad b/c..
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it brings an end to a good thing living
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the pt being made here is that if one has the right to life automatically has right to all labor and time and resources of others TF?
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FALSE
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blackburne is trying 2 make the pt that every woman indeed every person has right to control his her own body...tf?
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FALSE
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Blackburne implies that playing God is always..
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wrong
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blackburn thinks that idea that a fetus is a baby or a person ...
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begs the question
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blackburn thinks that the deontological ideas of duties demands and rights doesn't not fit will with...
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gradualism
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although blackburne doesn't mention it, many missing women are missing b/c of
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sex selective abortion
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blackburne believes that a fetus is a...
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potential person
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blackburn believes the reason a woman wishes 2 have an abortion is relevant 2 ..
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whether or not it is the right thing to do..
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other reasons for missing women are inequalities in...
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care and sustenance and infanticide
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blackburne believes the stage of...
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development is relevant in issue of abortion
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blackburne believes that the issue is black and white or grey area
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grey area
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pllaying god has no bearing on whether it is morally right or wrong. instead it just indicates that it...
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upsets us
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blackburn does not believe in the
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after life bc it is metaphysically comprehensive to him
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what is aristotle view on happiness?
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"eudaimonia"
engagement with the world, reasoning, healthy |
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utilitarianism
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pleasures and pains of people as a whole
fits well with gradualist approach |
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consequentialist
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forward looking
maybethe actions morally wrong but the outcome is good then good! |
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mills view on utilitarianism
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desiring a thing and finding it pleasant are one and same
eeryone is concerned for everyones pleasure |
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benthams view on utilitarianism
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strings of sensation
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deonological view
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things are just right and wrong
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arguments against utilitarianism
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requires morals to visualize what is right and actually wrong
doesn't take seriously the separateness of persons |
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defense for utilitarianism
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judge particular rrights, rules, laws "get to be on the list"
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"Freedom from the Bad"
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easier to say what has to be avoided than achieved
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felicific calculus
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scientific way of determining what matters in decisions
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kants philosophy on lies
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NO LIE acceptable
motives are mixed with in us sense of duty |
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mills take on utilitarianism
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that there are higher pleasures than others
QuANTITY alone |
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bentham
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all pleasures same
no ones happiness counts more than others pleasure and pain rule our lives |
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teleological approach
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actions that produce more benefit than harm are right
actions help or hurt people |
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who is a deneological thinker?
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kant
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kants belief
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stems from reason itself
be done for the sake of moral law do not treat ppl as means |
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categorical imparitive
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any proposition that requires an action 2 be necessary
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one non ethical moral value
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than society could ever hold any false or mistaken moral views (nazis)
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second non ethical moral
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there is ethical progress
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who is reason based?
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kant
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human nature based?
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utilitarianism
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descriptive relativism
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discovers moral beliefs vary everywhere
attemp to describe whats out there |
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what is fallacy of decriptive rel.?
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doesn't tell us there is one answer/not an objective moral truth
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ethical relativism
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all kinds of viewsb/c no objectivity
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descriptive egoism
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everyone always puts out for sake of own best interest.
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what does the universalization test ask us?
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see what happens if we imagine everyone doing what we are considering doing
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if you want to stay out of trouble,, don't murder someone one is categorical imperative or not?
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NOT
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kantalian ethics and utilitarian ethics both oppose??
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egoism
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the utilitarians belive the good has to do with??
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pleasure
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kant belives that the good has to do with??
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the action done for good will
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why is egoism immoral to kant?
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b/c no one is will 2 have all persons act as egoists at all times
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utilitarianism and kantianism present what they think are ____ and _____ ethics
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universal and objective
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if one does one's duty, 1 has good will true or false?
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FALSE one must be acting from duty
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a good will is good because
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of doing the duty itself
NOT B/C what it can accomplish |
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kant develops the categorical imperative to show the relativity or objectivity of ethics?
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objectivity NOT RELA.
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kant believes a person is morally praiseworthy as long as they...`
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try to do duty.
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kants ethics are not trying to be the ____ rule
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golden
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good will is composed of what 3 things..
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1)wanting to do what duty requires
2)knowing what is the right thing 2 do as determined by cat. imperative 3)striving with all means in ones power to do right thing |
