PHI3626 Obojobo - Utilitarianism

Does Bentham or Mill make a distinction between higher and lower pleasures?

Mill

What is a standard objection to utilitarian principles?

Utilitarian principles dismiss the interests, and sometimes lives, of individuals.

If an action performed in a particular moment was done to produce net utility, but later on caused more harm than good, a proponent of actual consequence utility would consider it

immoral

Jim is an unemployed father of three; he is out of money and cannot afford to buy his children food. He decides to steal food from a large grocery store. Utilitarians would most likely think his action is

moral.

According to Utilitarianism, what determines the morality of an action is

whether the action produced more good or harm to the largest number of people.

Who is typically regarded as the founder of utilitarianism?

Jeremy Bentham

What shows an actual difference between act utilitarianism and rule utilitarianism?

Act utilitarianism argues that the principle of utility must be applied to each individual case while rule utilitarianism argues that one should apply general principles that people ought to follow still in accordance to the consequence of the action.

Which of these is not a part of the scale Bentham believed should be used to quantify utility?

Cost

According to Utilitarianism, the ends do not justify the means.

False

The end goal of utilitarianism is to become a more virtuous person.

False