1. Quick Quiz
Ethical Theories

2. Utilitarianism For a utilitarian, actions are right as they:
Produce the best consequences
Produce the most consequences
Tend to produce the best consequences
Tend to limit the most harm
Follow the correct rules of morality

3. Utilitarianism Measure how many hedons are present in pleasure.
Bentham uses his Hedonic Calculus to:
Measure how many hedons are present in pleasure.
Establish the relative values of different pleasures.
Help us reach our personal goals.
Justify the mathematical nature of morality.
Complicate the simplicity of ordinary ethics.

4. Utilitarianism Utilitarianism is a demanding theory because
it is difficult to calculate what to do.
no one can figure out how to cause pleasure.
there will be conflicts between our duties and our interests.
Bentham and Mill were bossy people.
self-improvement is its first goal.

5. Utilitarianism
Getting a relaxing massage is superior to drinking a case of Special Export because it isn’t followed by great pain. It is superior in terms of:
Fecundity
Purity
Certainty
Propinquity
Extent

6. Utilitarianism
Every Mozart tune is good, while Nickelback’s written some real dogs. Mozart excels over Nickelback in terms of:
Fecundity
Purity
Certainty
Propinquity
Extent

7. Utilitarianism
When utilitarianism tells the doctor to knock you out and take your organs for those needy Nobel Prize wieners, it seems weak regarding:
Justice
Friendliness
Individual rights
Fecundity
Deontology

8. Utilitarianism
When utilitarianism tells Marshall Dillon to let the bank robbing murderer go for the sake of increasing happiness, it seems weak regarding:
Justice
Friendliness
Individual rights
Fecundity
Deontology

9. Utilitarianism
Bentham and Mill agree that the word ‘good’ should be understood to mean
Right
The highest value
Obligatory
Pleasure, and happiness
Highly evolved

10. Deontology For Kant, the only thing good unconditionally is pleasure
courage
virtue
a good will
a good time

11. Deontology For Kant, an action has moral worth only if it is done
in accordance with duty
from a sense of duty
with a measure of good will
through a motive of love
to cause the most pleasure possible

12. Deontology The contradictions in Kant’s ethics
have plagued Kant scholars for decades
are strange, but since he rejects reason, they are not problematic
yield perfect and imperfect duties
make his theory unacceptable until they are resolved
a and d

13. Deontology Kant tries to show that morality is based on Duty
Rationality
Love
Transcendental philosophy
Apperception

14. Deontology
If you want to do something, but reflection shows you wouldn’t like it if everyone else acted that way, you have
A perfect duty to refrain
An imperfect duty to refrain
Continence
Incontinence
Viciousness

15. Deontology Kant’s theory answers the question, Why be moral?, by …
suggesting you are unloving otherwise
suggesting you are mean otherwise
suggesting you are stupid otherwise
suggesting you are incorrigible otherwise
suggesting you are irrational otherwise

16. Deontology A problem for Kant’s theory is
how an action should be described before testing it with the categorical imperative
why anyone should think being consistent is part of being moral
contradictions usually show theories are bad
A and B
A and C

17. Answers C B A D E