Week 4 Quiz 5

Front 1

For Mill the ultimate sanction of the greatest happiness morality was what?

Back 1

-Conceiving oneself as part of a collective body

Front 2

For Mill, Virtuous behaviors are much more certain than any otehr types of actions as the action is determined by a habit.

Back 2

True

Front 3

Kant argued for the Kingdom of Ends in which people collectively would consider each person's end as their own end.

Back 3

True

Front 4

Mill did not think it was morally necessary to conceive of oneself as part of a collective body.

Back 4

False

Front 5

The collective body was not important for Kant.

Back 5

False

Front 6

The hermeneutical-circle and the hologram are analogies that illustrate how the synergistic model is a never ending, interrelated process, within a unified collective whole, i.e. a unified philosophy

Back 6

True

Front 7

The hermeneutical circles states that:

Back 7

-In order to understand the parts there must be an understanding of the whole.
-In order to understand the whole there must be and undrstanding of the parts

Front 8

The synergistic model is like the social arrangement of a unified collective whole in that"

Back 8

-THe whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
-The parts can only be understood from teh perspective of the whole
-The whole can ony be understood from teh perspective of the parts

Front 9

The synergistic model is regerring to a collective consciousness.

Back 9

False

Front 10

True moral undrstanding is a unification of several modes of thought that ultimately can only be understood from the perspective of the unified collective whole.

Back 10

True

Front 11

Virtue is not very important for Mill.

Back 11

false

Front 12

Which of the following is true for Mill?

Back 12

-Justice is a perfect obligation
-Justice is teh most absolute and imperative of any other class of obligatons
-Justice is guarded by our natural sentiments.
-Just is connected to the collective body

Front 13

Which of the following is true for Mill about virtue?

Back 13

-Virtue is to be desired disinterestedly for itself
-Virtue can be desired and cherished not as a means to happiness but as a part of happiness
-the utilitarian standard requires the cultivation of the love of virtue.

Front 14

Who wrote the following: The Supreme principle of the doctrine of virtue is: act in accordance with a maxim of ends that it can be a universal law for everyone to have."

Back 14

Kant