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A Level AQA Philosophy Exam Questionsand Answers (Latest Update 2024)
An 'excellence', or more specifically, a 'virtue' - a quality that
aids the fulfilment of a thing's ergon (Aristotle). - Correct
Answer ✅ Arete
The net balance of pleasure over pain. - Correct Answer ✅
Utility
The pursuit of pleasure. The good is pleasure. - Correct
Answer ✅ Hedonism
What makes an action right or wrong is the consequences it
brings about. Utilitarianism is an example. - Correct Answer
✅ Consequentialism
The view that an act is right if it produces the greatest
happiness for the greatest number. - Correct Answer ✅ The
Principle of Utility
Everybody is morally equal. - Correct Answer ✅ Equality
,A Level AQA Philosophy Exam Questions
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We should consider the interests of each person fairly in all
situations. - Correct Answer ✅ Impartiality
The capacity to feel pleasure and pain. - Correct Answer ✅
Sentience
Only the total amount of utility counts. All pleasures are
EQUALLY valuable. - Correct Answer ✅ Bentham's
Quantitative Hedonism
Higher pleasures of the mind have more value than lower
pleasures. - Correct Answer ✅ Mill's Qualitative Hedonism
Assesses each separate act according to whether it
maximises pleasure over pain NOW. - Correct Answer ✅
Act Utilitarianism
We should assess situations on the basis of whether the acts
we are considering are compatible with moral rules which
increase utility in the LONG RUN. - Correct Answer ✅ Rule
Utilitarianism
,A Level AQA Philosophy Exam Questions
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Adopted by Peter Singer, argues that we should seek always
the good we would rationally prefer rather than simply our
selfish desires or pleasure/happiness. - Correct Answer ✅
Preference Utilitarianism
Nature has given humans two sovereigns; Pleasure and pain.
These dictate our decisions. - Correct Answer ✅ The
Motivation of Humans (Bentham)
Bentham takes it as a self evident fact that humans are
governed by the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of
pain. - Correct Answer ✅ Psychological Hedonism
A theoretical system for calculating the amount of pain or
pleasure generated. No one type of pleasure is better than
another so it is measured based on intensity, duration,
certainty, remoteness, richness ad purity. - Correct Answer
✅ The Hedonic Calculus
, A Level AQA Philosophy Exam Questions
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Happiness - Correct Answer ✅ What is the good?
(Bentham)
Higher pleasures of the mind are worth more and lower
pleasures of the body are worth less. Qualified judges who
are familiar with both always regard higher pleasures as
worth more than lower ones. - Correct Answer ✅ Higher
and Lower pleasures
1. The only proof that an object is visible is if people actually
see it
2. The only proof that sound is audible is if people actually
hear it
3. Something is desirable if people desire it
4. Each person desires their own happiness.
5. Each persons happiness is a good to that person
6. Each persons happiness is good to all persons - Correct
Answer ✅ Mill's proof of Utilitarianism
'it is better to be a human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied,
better to be a Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.' -
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