Utilitarianism

Question 1

Who devised his ethics in the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 1

Jeremy Bentham

Question 2

What is the principle of utility?

Answer 2

Greatest happiness for the greatest number

Question 3

Each is to count for one is from which type of ethic?

Answer 3

Egalitarianism

Question 4

Which calculus helps to work this out?

Answer 4

Hedonic Calculus

Question 5

Do animals count in the hedonic calculus?

Answer 5

Yes

Question 6

Bentham’s system is…..

Answer 6

Consequentialist and Relativist

Question 7

What type of Utilitarinism is closely related to Benthams?

Answer 7

Act

Question 8

Is relativist and consequentialist ethics flexible?

Answer 8

Yes

Question 9

Is it better to consider someone else’s happiness before your own?

Answer 9

Somebody else’s happiness

Question 10

What is hard to predict?

Answer 10

Consequences

Question 11

‘All things being equal, pushpin is as good as poetry’

Who said this?

Answer 11

Bentham

Question 12

What is it called when most people threaten the better quality of happiness?

Answer 12

Tyranny of the majority

Question 13

Better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied . . .
Who said this?

Answer 13

J.S.Mill

Question 14

What recognises quality of happiness rather than quantity?

Answer 14

Qualitative

Question 15

What type of Utilitarianism is associated with Mill?

Answer 15

Rule Utilitarianism

Question 16

Who practises preference Utilitarianism?

Answer 16

Peter Singer

Question 17

Singer accuses people who claim that human life is sacred of being….

Answer 17

Speciesist

Question 18

What is a weakness of Preference Utilitarianism?

Answer 18

Difficult to predict consequences or every decision is a difficult moral decision

Question 19

Is strong rule utilitarianism flexible?

Answer 19

No, it is completely inflexible