PoM Week 2

Question 1

Honouring a value is?

Answer 1

Acting in accordance with the value

Question 2

Promoting a value is?

Answer 2

Acts towards the value

Question 3

Bentham: “Nature has placed us under the (1.)__ of two (2.)__ masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we (3.)__ to do.”

Answer 3

1. governance
2. sovereign
3. ought

Question 4

Bentham: “__ is as good as poetry”

Answer 4

Pushpin

Question 5

Mill: “Better to be __ dissatisfied than a pig satisfied”

Answer 5

Socrates

Question 6

Which two philosophers noted that observed perceptions of satisfaction track expectations. E.g. those with low QoL profess themselves as more content. (Agent-relative consequentialism)

Answer 6

Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum

Question 7

What is Pareto Efficiency?

Answer 7

When no one person’s utility can be raised without reducing that of another.

Question 8

Who argued against Rule Utilitarianism? “Why would he advocate abiding by a rule when he knows that it will not, in the present case, be most beneficial to abide by it?”

Answer 8

J.J.C Smart

Question 9

J.S. Mill is typically associated with __ utilitarianism

Answer 9

Rule

Question 10

Jeremy Bentham is typically associated with __ utilitariansim

Answer 10

Act