Week 10 Quiz 14

Front 1

According to MIll, what is the first of the judicial virtues?

Back 1

-Impartiality, because it is a necesary condition for the fulfillment of the other obligations of justice.

Front 2

Mill argues that if we are to have desert as a maxim then it necessary follows that we must have the maxim of equality in order to fulfill that obligation of desert.

Back 2

True

Front 3

Mill argues that the reason most often prsented for violating the riht of equality is for social expediency, This according to Mill is permissible under those conditions

Back 3

False

Front 4

According to Mill, how is it that the history of social improvements has been one of transitions from necessities of inequalities to that of injustices?

Back 4

ALL

Front 5

According to Mill, which of the follwing is/are true?

Back 5

ALL

Front 6

According to Mill are times in which it is permissible for society to violate equality for exediency.

Back 6

False

Front 7

As a result of injustices brought about because of expediency, what does Mill believe should have the highest social utility?

Back 7

Maxim of justice, which are composed of individual rights and liberties, one ought not to violate maxims of individual justice for that of social exediency, because individual justice, when regarded collectively, is the highest social expediency

Front 8

According to Mill, there are never any exceptions to the obedience of the maxims of justice. Rather, what happens is that what may be just in one particular case may not be just under differing individual circumstances. Injustice is never laudable.

Back 8

True

Front 9

Mill argues that; if the sentiment of justice is simply the natural feeling of resentment, moralized by being made co-extensive with the demands of the social good; and if this feeling not only does but ought to exist in all the classes of cases to which the idea of justice corresponds; then the sentiment of justice has been sufficiently acounted for.

Back 9

True

Front 10

According to Mill, because maxims of justice are a class of social utilities more important and absolute than any other class of utilities, they have a sentiment not only different in degree but also in kind, the sentiment attached to the maxims of justice are different than the sentiments attached to that of expediency.

Back 10

True