PHI 208 PHI208 Week 1 Quiz Answers (Spring 2017) – Online Homework Help
PHI 208 Week 1 Quiz Answers
- According to Mill, utilitarian morality holds that:
- According to chapter 2 of Understanding Philosophy, which of the following would be an expression of rule utilitarianism, rather than act utilitarianism?
- What moral theory does Jeremy Bentham (with whom Singer seems to agree) endorse?
- According to John Stuart Mill, utilitarianism takes into account the happiness of:
- Which of the following does Tom Regan say about the utilitarian approach to animal ethics?
- Which of the following describes how egg-laying hens are treated in factory farms, according to the video “Meet Your Meat”?
- 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”
- In what way does Peter Singer think that speciesism is similar to racism and sexism?
- What is speciesism according to Peter Singer’s account?
- According to the video “Meet Your Meat”, which of the following is true of how animals are slaughtered on factory farms
- What is a key feature of utilitarianism according to the assigned texts?
- The video “Meet Your Meat” can best be described as primarily communicating which message?
- What does Tom Regan say is the source of inherent value in an individual, whether human or animal?
- According to chapter 2 of Understanding Philosophy, utilitarianism is a form of what broader kind of ethical theory?
- What is Tom Regan’s position about the use of animals in research and agriculture?
- According to chapter 2 of Understanding Philosophy, which of the following makes it difficult to calculate the utility of an act, raising a potential problem for utilitarianism?
- According to Tom Regan, what is fundamentally wrong with the treatment of animals in our current system?
- How do we determine the difference between higher and lower pleasures, according to Mill?
- Which of the following statements is the strongest evidence that the person saying it is a utilitarian?
- Peter Singer’s “basic principle of equality” applied to animals means:
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