Week 6 Quiz 2

Front 1

All setient beings avoid pain and pursue pleasure so also the lack of security is avoided as a kind of pain, and security is pursued as a kind of pleasure.

Back 1

True

Front 2

For an act utilitarian, an act is not right or obligatory because of the act's inherent character, the act's relation to divine or social dictates, or the agent's undrlying motives, rather actions are morally right to the extent that an action maximizes pleasures and minimizes pains.

Back 2

True

Front 3

It follows from Bentham's and Mill's utilitarianism that security is of vital interests not just to human beings, rather security is a bital interest to all sentient-beings that can experience such sentiment.

Back 3

True

Front 4

Jeremy Bentham argued that quantitative pleasures could in fact become qualitative pleasures.

Back 4

False

Front 5

Jeremy Bentham would agree with the statement: "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied."

Back 5

False

Front 6

John Stuart Mill argued which of the following?

Back 6

All

Front 7

John Stuart Mill held that not only were there quantitative pleasures, but there were also qualitative pleasures. The use of the higher faculties of the mind were part of such qualitative pleasures.

Back 7

True

Front 8

John Stuart Mill uses a combination of act utilitarianism and rule utilitarianism depending on the decisions to be made and circumstances.

Back 8

True

Front 9

Mill argued that the psychological propensity for an action or activity that is a means to an end to become and end in and of itelf, gives life its interest and variety.

Back 9

True

Front 10

Mill argues that purpose and meaning in life, becomes whatever meaning and purpose each individual develops as their end.

Back 10

True

Front 11

Mill held that it is permissible to violate the civil right of personal secruity if and only if doing so would maximize pleasure and minimize pain for sentient beings.

Back 11

False

Front 12

Mill held that justice is based on which of the following?

Back 12

-Sentiments that sanction the rules
-Rules of cunduct

Front 13

Unlike rule utilitarians, act utilitarians define right actions before they define the end/good

Back 13

False

Front 14

Which of the following is true about rule utilitariansim

Back 14

-Defines the good/end prior to that of the right
-Rightness based on the consequences of various sets of rules or principles of action
-Goal is to maximize pleasures for not just mankind but all sentient beings universally