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8/18/24, 4:56 AMPHIL 2306 Quiz #5
Jeremiah
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Mill maintains that A) utility is the foundation of morality
A) utility is the foundation of morality
B) duties are foundations of morality
C) moral rights are foundations of morality;
D) B) and C) only;
E) all of the above.
According to Mill's "Greatest Happiness C) actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they
Principle": tend to produce the reverse of happiness;
A) actions are right in proportion as they
tend to promote happiness, but reverse of
happiness has nothing to do with the
evaluation of acts;
B) actions are wrong in proportion as they
tend to promote unhappiness, but happiness
has nothing to do with the evaluation of acts;
C) actions are right in proportion as they
tend to promote happiness, wrong as they
tend to produce the reverse of happiness;
D) none of the above
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Mill maintains that happiness is the function C) pleasure and the absence of pain;
of
A) pleasure only;
B) the absence of pain only;
C) pleasure and the absence of pain;
D) none of the above
Critics of utilitarianism maintained that "To D) B) and C);
suppose that life has ... no higher end than
pleasure -no better and nobler object of
desire and pursuit- [is] a doctrine worthy
only of swine". Mill
A) agreed that utilitarianism is a doctrine
worthy only of a swine;
B) distinguished higher pleasures (related to
intellect, imagination, and moral sentiments)
from lower pleasures that humans share with
animals;
C) maintained that higher pleasures have
greater value (are more valuable) than lower
pleasures;
D) B) and C);
E) all of the above
When challenged how we know that higher C) we know it because competent people (i.e., those who experienced both kinds of
pleasures are more valuable than lower pleasures) almost universally maintain that higher pleasures are more valuable;
pleasures, Mill replied what follows:
A) we do not know it, it's just an assumption;
B) we know it because that's what the Bible
say;
C) we know it because competent people
(i.e., those who experienced both kinds of
pleasures) almost universally maintain that
higher pleasures are more valuable;
D) none of the above.
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