Wednesday, 24 February 2016

PHI 208 PHI/208 PHI208 Week 2 Quiz


PHI 208 PHI/208 PHI208 Week 2 Quiz

  1. What is Tom Regan’s position about the use of animals in research and agriculture?
  2. What is Tom Regan’s main criticism of the contractarian approach to ethical duties?
  3. The philosopher John Stuart Mill recognized the following as a potential problem for utilitarianism
  4. According to Mill, utilitarian morality holds that:
  5. Which of the following does not happen in the “Meet Your Meat” to animals with diseases or injuries on modern factory farms:
  6. Which of the following would be an expression of rule utilitarianism, rather than act utilitarianism?
  7. What does Singer say about other philosophers’ attempts to argue that only humans have moral worth?
  8. Which of the following does not describe how egg-laying hens are treated in factory farms?
  9. According to Jeremy Bentham (as described by Singer) what should determine whether a being’s interests should be taken into account?
  10. What is speciesism?
  11. Which of the following does Tom Regan say about the utilitarian approach to animal ethics?
  12. What is Peter Singer’s point about performing vivisection on mentally disabled human infants?
  13. Which of the following does not happen to pigs on today’s factory farms in the “Meet Your Meat” video?
  14. What does Tom Regan say about the cruelty/kindness approach to animal ethics?
  15. What does Singer say about finding the basis for moral duties in the “intrinsic dignity” of humanity?
  16. Which of the following makes it difficult to calculate the utility of an act
  17. What moral theory does Jeremy Bentham (with whom Singer seems to agree) endorse?
  18. Which of the following does Peter Singer assert about the principle of equality?
  19. How do we determine the difference between higher and lower pleasures, according to Mill?
  20. Which of the following statements is the strongest evidence that the person saying it is a utilitarian?

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