front 1 What is Act Utilitarianism? | back 1 morally right act, for any particular situation, would produce the most utility. |
front 2 What is Jeremy Benthams Principle of Utility? | back 2 The act is only right if it maximizes the total of pleasure over pain for all parties |
front 3 what is mills greatest happiness principle? | back 3 actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to reverse of happiness |
front 4 How does Mill understand happiness? | back 4 He says anything that is either pleasurable or conductive should count as utility, also must be measurable or observable. Product of how one lives |
front 5 How does Mill justify self-sacrifice? | back 5 He says the only truly moral self-sacrifice is self-sacrifice for the happiness of others |
front 6 What does mill mean when he says that external and internal sanctions are needed for the utilitarian moral enterprise? | back 6 no data |
front 7 Identify the 4 steps an act utilitarian must take to determine what action is the morally right action in a situation? | back 7 1. Scope
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front 8 Why do animals have moral interests in utilitarian ethics? | back 8 Because they seem to be able to make desirable and undesirable experiences and choices. |
front 9 What is speciesism? | back 9 discrimination unfairly against animals and is compared by utilitarians to racism or sexism. |
front 10 What is Rule Utilitarianism? | back 10 Gives rise to general moral rules and practices< such as keeping a secret, promotes overall utility |
front 11 What does Priniciple of Rules mean in Rule Utilitarianism? | back 11 Morally right rule or practice, than if widely followed would promote overall utility than if the rule did not exist |
front 12 What does Priniciple of Acts mean in Rule Utilitaarianism? | back 12 Morally right act is one that follows a morally right rule or practice. We have a moral duty o obey the rules identified by the principle or rules except when the rules come in direct conflict with one another |
front 13 What does Rule Utilitariansm tell us? | back 13 tell what kinds of actions are morally right, regardless of the situation. |
front 14 What is the difference between Rule and Act Utilitarianism? | back 14 act util, will sometimes approve of breaking a rule because it promotes overall utility. Rule util. says no matter the situation one must always hold the rule true and not break it. |
front 15 What do Rule and Act Util. have in common? | back 15 agree that consequences are morally impt. and that morality ought to promote over all utility. |
front 16 What kind of utilitarianism seeks to realize these commitments by assessing the effects of particular acts? | back 16 Act util |
front 17 What are the 5 objections to Act Utilitarianism? | back 17 1. Calculation Problem
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front 18 How does Rule Utilitarianism improve upon act util by dealing with objections against act util? | back 18 no data |