ENGR 482 Exam 1 Study Guide with Complete Solutions
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ENGR 482 Exam 1 Study Guide with
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Deontology - Ans:-Another word for duty ethics
T/F: A conceptual issue is a question about the meaning of a term. - Ans:-True
T/F: Disputes over application issues often depend in part on underlying factual issues, conceptual
issues, or both....
T/F: 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. - Ans:✔✔-True
Although Bentham and Mill discussed happiness extensively, they never indicated procedures for how to
measure or calculate pleasure and pain. - Ans:✔✔-False
What is true of preference utilitarianism? - Ans:✔✔-1. There will always be cases in which the
satisfaction of preferences will not maximize overall happiness
2. What makes something good is the fact that other people's preferences are satisfied
3. Some preference utilitarians restrict moral correctness to "fully-informed" preferences
T/F: Kant believed that persons should rely on their emotions in order to develop a sense of duty. -
Ans:✔✔-False
T/F: According to Kantian ethics, an act has moral value when the will is perfectly aligned with duty. -
Ans:✔✔-True
According to Kantian ethics, morality is based on what? - Ans:✔✔-The purity of the will
In Kant's terminology, the word 'will' means what? - Ans:✔✔-A faculty that animates our bodily actions
T/F: Kant believed that fundamental moral principles must be fluid to respond to the different situations
people encounter. - Ans:✔✔-False
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