Week 8 Quiz 6

Front 1

Utility is often times stigmatized as an immoral doctrine of expediency. How does Mill respnd?

Back 1

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Front 2

Mill talks about moral rules being transcendent and even sacred. Does this mean that there can be no exceptions or conflicts of utilties/duties?

Back 2

-No, rather it means that if there is going to be an exception, the principle of utility will decide which of the conflicting utilities/duties

Front 3

How does Mill respond to the critics that there is not enough time, previous to action, for doing a utilitarian calculation of what is right or wrong?

Back 3

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Front 4

Mill thought of rules as being secondary principles (mid-level) and he thought of the greatest-happiness principles as being a first principle (theory). Do they conflict?

Back 4

-No , rather they support each other. The first principle informs us of our en/goal and our secondary principles/rules help guide us toward that end/goal

Front 5

With whatever fundamental principle of morality we adopt, is it also necessary to have secondary (mid-level)principles/rules?

Back 5

-Yes it si absolutely necessary because secondary principle/rules are the general conclusions that society has agreed on and the ones that guide most of our moral lives.

Front 6

Does utilitarianism determine absolute universal laws of moral conduct or does it allow for conflicting obligations/exceptions?

Back 6

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Front 7

What two factors does Mill believes contributes to the success of the application of the greatest-happiness principle when there are unequivolcal cases of conflicting obligations?

Back 7

-the degree in which the moral agent has intellect and virtuous character.

Front 8

According to Mill, at what point in the process of moral decision-making is it requisite that the first principles be appealed to?

Back 8

-We begin living our moral lives by the secondary principles that have been taught to us. It is only in cases in which our secondary principles conflict that it is requisite to appeal to the first principles.
-Since there is no case of moral obligation in which some secondary principle is not involved, it is only necessary to appeal to the first principles when it appears that the seondary priniples conflict.