PHIL 110 TEST QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS ALREADY PASSED
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PHIL 110 TEST QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS ALREADY PASSED
What is a criticism of Kant's principle of universalizability? - Answer-There is no concrete answer for situations where moral choices are not obvious, and it can be hard to make maxims based on this principle. This can lead to counteri...
PHIL 110 TEST QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS ALREADY
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What is a criticism of Kant's principle of universalizability? - Answer-There is no
concrete answer for situations where moral choices are not obvious, and it can be hard
to make maxims based on this principle. This can lead to counterintuitive moral
conclusions. Many say that it doesn't include Clear guidance on moral actions.
What is the great happiness principle? - Answer-It says that "actions are right in
proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the
reverse of happiness". This means that actions are right when they provide further
happiness, and wrong when they cause unhappiness.
Why did mill argue that the greatest happiness principle is the supreme principle of
morality? - Answer-because it states that actions are morally right based on the amount
of happiness they bring for the greatest number of people.
How are we supposed to assess the morality of an action according to utilitarians? -
Answer-Based on its consequences and which action will produce the greatest amount
of well-being for the greatest amount of people.
What is a criticism of utilitarianism? - Answer-That it disregards the value of individual
rights and reduces the meaning of life to pleasure. It argues that utilitarianism treats
people as mere means to an end rather than valuing them.
Is the criticism or utilitarianism more persuasive? - Answer-I think the criticism is more
persuasive because in some situations, utilitarianism doesn't consider justice and how
doing something that produces the greatest amount of well-being might not be morally
right. Also, it asks us to consider the greater good over our own. For example, killing an
innocent person, even if it produces a greater overall good, would not be right.
What does the trolley problem question? - Answer-Whether is it morally acceptable to
choose the action with the best overall consequences.
What is the trolley problem? - Answer-- Five engineers are working when a train comes
toward their track and is about to kill them
- You are the sit manager and have the option to redirect the train to a different track,
where only one engineer is working and would be killed
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