PHIL 101 Quiz 3

For ___________, the moral rightness or wrongness

of an act depends on the consequences it produces.

• utilitarianism

• Kantian deontology

• consequentialism

• rule utilitarianism

Actions and inactions which benefit few people

and harm more people will be deemed morally wrong while actions and inactions which harm fewer people and benefit more people will be deemed morally right.

• consequentialism

• Kantian deontology

• utilitarianism

• categorical imperative

This classical utilitarian believed that benefit and harm can be

defined in terms of happiness/unhappiness and pleasure/

pain.

• Immanuel Kant

• J.J.C. Smart

• Jeremy Bentham

• Nelson Mandela

The view that, "The good is equal to the pleasant, and we ought to morally pursue pleasure and work to avoid pain," makes utilitarianism a ___________ moral theory.

• egoistic

• socialistic

• hedonistic

• consequentialist

"The morally right action is the action that produces the most good," is the:

• principle of utility

• utilitarian rule

• principle of fairness

• categorical imperative

The evaluation of the moral rightness and

moral wrongness of actions is based on the direct outcome of actions.

• utilitarianism

• rule utilitarianism

• actual consequence utilitarianism

• foreseeable consequence utilitarianism

This kind of utilitarianism bases the evaluation

of the moral rightness and moral wrongness of actions on the anticipated outcomes of actions:

• rule utilitarianism

• foreseeable consequence utilitarianism

• act utilitarianism

• actual consequence utilitarianism

These utilitarians argue that among possible actions, the action

that produces the most utility would the morally right action.

• act

• rule

• consequentialist

• moral

These utilitarians focus on general principles and hold the view that those principles are established for the greater good.

• rule

• act

• consequentialist

• egoist

He believed that, “each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable,

desires his own happiness.”

• Jeremy Bentham

• John Stuart Mill

• Nelson Mandela

• Immanuel Kant