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PHIL 482 TAMU Exam 1 Questions With ExpertSolutions |Updated & Verified
An engineer should not break a confidentiality agreement - ✔✔Moral
Conceptual issues should always be resolved by consulting a dictionary definition (T/F) - ✔✔F
Which of the following are important distinctions for contemporary utilitarians?
(a) subtle vs overt effects
(b) strong vs. weak utilitarianism
(c) expected vs. actual consequences
(d) act vs. rule utilitarianism
(e) particular acts vs. act types - ✔✔
Classic hedonistic act utilitarianism holds that only happiness is good for its own sake and that acts are
right insofar as no alternative act could bring about more of this good (T/F) - ✔✔T
What kind of act would a hedonistic act utilitarian most likely prefer?
(a) One where we satisfy a preference at no cost to another
(b) One where a patient is sacrificed in order to save many others - ✔✔b
Which of the following is NOT true of preference utilitarianism?
(a) there will always be cases in which the satisfaction of preferences will not maximize overall
happiness
, (b) what makes something good is the fact that people's preferences are satisfied
(c) some preference utilitarians restrict moral correctness to "fully-informed" preferences
(c) because the focus is on individual preferences, this type of utilitarianism is considered a
relativistic theory - ✔✔b
Although Bentham and Mill discussed happiness extensively, they never indicated procedures for how to
measure or calculate pleasure and pain (T/F) - ✔✔F
While direct consequences fall within the scope of utilitarian analysis, indirect consequences are not
considered sufficiently relevant (T/F) - ✔✔F
According to Kantian Ethics what defines morality? - ✔✔Purity of the Will
According to Kantian ethics, an act has moral value when the will is perfectly aligned with duty (T/F) -
✔✔T
Which of the following is true of Immanuel Kant's theory of duty ethics?
(a) the responsibilities of duty are inscribed on all rational beings; by nature of their rationality
(b) duties are established at a communal level, allowing for variations across cultures
(c) duties are primarily derived from lessons learned in experience
(d) none of the above - ✔✔the responsibilities of duty are inscribed on all rational beings; by the nature
of their rationality
Kant believed that persons should rely on their emotions in order to develop a sense of duty (T/F) - ✔✔F
In Kant's terminology, the word will means...
(a) a faculty that animates our bodily actions
(b) a prediction of consequences
(c) an expression of desire
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