Week 9 Quiz 7

Front 1

For most people, including Mill, what seems to have ore practical binding force?

Back 1

-Mid-level/secondary priciples. Society consecrates through education and opinion the customary standards of morality, not the actual theory that brought about those standards.

Front 2

For Mill, what are the components of external and internal sanctions?

Back 2

-External sanctions: based on reward adn punishment. Internal sanctions: based on teh feeling of duty--conscience

Front 3

For Mill, what is the ultimate sanciton (motive) of all morality?

Back 3

-As in all moral standards--the conscientious feelings of mankind, a subjective feeling in our own minds--duty

Front 4

For Mill, what is the sanction (motive) of morality if an agent is not sensitive to the ultimate sanction?

Back 4

-External sanctions: based on reward and punishment

Front 5

What does Mill have to say about moral obligation being a transcendental fact?

Back 5

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Front 6

If duty-- the ultimate motive of Mill's utilitarianism--were to be innate, what would it be composed of?

Back 6

-Maxims with regard to the pleasures and pains of others
-Principles of morality, maxims, not details of actions.

Front 7

Does Mill believe that moral feelings/duties are innate?

Back 7

No, rather the moral faculty is a natural outgrowth from our nature, and is susceptible to cultivation

Front 8

Does Mill argue that we have natural sentiments that form the foundation for utilitarian morality?

Back 8

-Yes, this very powerful natural sentiment is the desire to be in unity with our fellow creatures.

Front 9

According to Mill, what are the necessary relations between human beings in a society?

Back 9

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Front 10

Mill's moral conception of teh 'collective' results in what type of political improvements?

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Front 11

According to Mill is it possible to inculcate/teach this feeling of unity within the social collective or is utilitariansism meant to be only an ideal end or purpose of morality to be striven twoards?

Back 11

-If from infancy utilitarianism is taught and desseminated as a religion and the whole force of education, institutions and public opinio support it both in profession and practice then it would be possible.

Front 12

The development of the social feeling results in what type of attitude toward others in society?

Back 12

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Front 13

What convictions defines the "ultimate sanction" of Mill's greatest happiness morality?

Back 13

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