Wednesday, 24 February 2016

PHI 208 PHI/208 PHI208 Week 2 Quiz (1)


PHI 208 PHI/208 PHI208 Week 2 Quiz (1)

  1. According to John Stuart Mill, utilitarianism takes into account the happiness of:
  2. According to Jeremy Bentham (as described by Singer) what should determine whether a being’s interests should be taken into account?
  3. What does Peter Singer say about the history of liberation movements? 
  4. Which of the following does not describe the ways that chickens and turkeys are treated on factory farms, according to the video “Meet Your Meat
  5. Tom Regan discusses the concept of indirect duties. Having only indirect duties towards animals means
  6. What does Singer say about other philosophers’ attempts to argue that only humans have moral worth?
  7. What is speciesism?
  8. What does Singer say about finding the basis for moral duties in the “intrinsic dignity” of humanity?
  9. Which of the following does not happen in the “Meet Your Meat” to animals with diseases or injuries on modern factory farms:
  10. According to Tom Regan, which of the following should compel us to accept the equal rights of animals?
  11. Which of the following does Tom Regan say about the utilitarian approach to animal ethics?
  12. According to the video “Meet Your Meat”, which of the following is not
    true of how animals are slaughtered on factory farms
  13. What does Tom Regan say is the source of inherent value in an individual?
  14. What is Tom Regan’s main criticism of the contractarian approach to ethical duties?
  15. Utilitarianism is a form of what broader kind of ethical theory?
  16. The philosopher John Stuart Mill recognized the following as a potential problem for utilitarianism
  17. Which of the following would be an expression of rule utilitarianism, rather than act utilitarianism?
  18. What does Tom Regan say about the cruelty/kindness approach to animal ethics?
  19. According to Tom Regan, what is fundamentally wrong with our current system?
  20. Which of the following statements is the strongest evidence that the person saying it is a utilitarian?

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