UTILITARIANISM

Question 1

An ethical theory that argues for the goodness of pleasure and the determination of right behavior based on the usefulness of the action’s consequences.

Answer 1

Utilitarianism

Question 2

Root word of utilitarianism which means consequences of actions and behavior as useful.

Answer 2

Utility

Question 3

Jeremy Bentham argues that our actions is governed by 2 sovereign masters based on what book?

Answer 3

An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789)

Question 4

Two sovereign masters by Bentham

Answer 4

Pleasure and Pain

Question 5

This is about our subjection to these sovereign masters: pleasure and pain

Answer 5

Principle of Utility

Question 6

It refers to the motivation of our actions as guided bt our avoidance of pain and our desire for pleasure

Answer 6

Principle of Utility

Question 7

It refers to pleasure as good if and only if they peoduce more happiness than unhappiness.

Answer 7

Principle of Utility

Question 8

Jeremt Bentham birthday

Answer 8

February 15, 1748

Question 9

He wrote about the greatest happiness principle of ethics and was known for a system of penal management called panopticon

Answer 9

Jeremy Bentham

Question 10

What makes people happy is called what

Answer 10

Intended pleasure

Question 11

What makes people unhappy is called what

Answer 11

Privation of pleasure

Question 12

Mill identified the natural moral preferability of Bentham as what?

Answer 12

Theory of life

Question 13

John Stuart Mill birthday

Answer 13

May 20, 1806

Question 14

Ethical theory and defense of utilitarian views of Mill are found in his long essay entitled what?

Answer 14

Utilitarianism (1861)

Question 15

Bentham’s framework for evaluating pleasure and pain

Answer 15

Felicific Calculus

Question 16

It is a common currency framework that calculates the pleasure that some action can produce.

Answer 16

Felicific Calculus

Question 17

It refers to the respect for rights directed toward society’s pursuit for the greatest happiness of the greatest number

Answer 17

Justice

Question 18

Are a valid claim on society and are justified by utility

Answer 18

Rights

Question 19

When these are not morally justified im accordance to the greatest happiness principle, then these rights need neither be observed, nor be respected

Answer 19

Legal rights

Question 20

He provides a criterion for comparative pleasures

Answer 20

Mill

Question 21

He suggests his felicific calculus , a framework for quantifying moral valuation

Answer 21

Bentham

Question 22

For Bentham and Mill, this refers to a way of understanding the results of people’s actions

Answer 22

Utility

Question 23

Bentham and Mill understand this as the experience if pleasure for the greatest number of persons

Answer 23

Happiness

Question 24

For Mill, these are neithrler inviolable nor natural, but rights are subject to some exceptions

Answer 24

Legal rights

Question 25

Humans, as moral agents are capable of searching and desiring what?

Answer 25

Higher intellectual pleasures

Question 26

These are pleasures appropriate for animals

Answer 26

Crude bestial pleasures / Lower Base pleasures