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PHI 208 Chapter 3 questions and answers 2022/2023act utilitarianism The branch of utilitarianism that holds that the morally right action is the one that produces the greatest overall utility in each particular circumstance. Adaptability A feature of a moral theory that allows for variation in moral judgments depending on the specific features of each circumstance. equal consideration The principle that each particular individual's happiness, suffering, preferences, welfare, ...

PHI 208- Chapter 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2022Socrates Question "ethics concerns no less than how one should live" We have the capacity to question our own, or others' assumptions about how one should live. Dialectic the process of moving back and forth between abstract judgements and concrete judgements. 00:52 01:22 Abstract judgments general considerations about values, rules, the purpose of things and so on. Concrete Judgements have to do with particular qu...

PHI 208 Final exam study set QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2022/2023According to the author, which statement would support cultural relativism but conflict with the best explanation of notion of "respect"? To respect another person or culture is to affirm that there is nothing inferior or superior about another culture, and therefore nothing to admire or criticize. According to Glaukon, if someone possessed Ring of Gyges, all of the following would be true EXCEPT: The person would become more...

PHI 208 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2022/2023Utilitarianism the doctrine that actions are right if they are useful or for the benefit of a majority. Act Utilitarianism The branch of utilitarianism that holds that the morally right action is the one that produces the greatest overall utility in each particular circumstance. Autonomy The capacity to freely determine one's own reason has determined. Consequentialist ethics Ethical system that maintains that the moral value of ac...

PHI 208 Week 5 Quiz Question 1 According to Caroline Heldman, which of the following is a question that applies to her sexual object test? Does the image show people having sex? Does the image display a full image of a woman? Does the image show a person as something that can be bought or sold? Does the image display violence against people in the image? Question 2 According to Colin Stokes, in which film are all the heroic, wise, and villainous characters female? Th...

PHI 208 Week 5 Quiz Question 1 According to Caroline Heldman, which of the following is a question that applies to her sexual object test? Does the image show people having sex? Does the image display a full image of a woman? Does the image show a person as something that can be bought or sold? Does the image display violence against people in the image? Question 2 According to Colin Stokes, in which film are all the heroic, wise, and villainous characters female? Th...

PHI 208 Week 2 Quiz Question 1 What is speciesism according to Peter Singer’s account? Allowing the interests of one’s own species to override the greater interests of members of other species. The practice of treating all animals equally regardless of their abilities. The part of science that studies species membership. The view that different species have different characteristics. Question 2 According to chapter 2 of Understanding Philosophy, utilitarianism is a fo...

PHI 208 WEEK 3 QUIZ 1. In the video “What Is Just War Theory?” Michael Walzer argues it is important to read the essays and memoir literature of soldiers because (Points : 1) they make the toughest moral decisions on the battlefield they contain critical material regarding the actual experience of war moral arguments about war should ring true to X all of the above 2. According to Nagel, which of the following may be permitted by absolutism, at least in som...

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PHI 208 WEEK 2 QUIZ. Question 1 1 / 1 pts What is the BEST meaning of the term “the irreducible plurality of values”? Values cannot be reduced to measurable utility because there is no such thing as pleasure or pain. Correct! Some values, such as the value of human life or certain aesthetic goods, cannot be reduced to measurable utility. There is never a right moral choice when there are multiple actions to choose from. Values are simply what the majority of people happen to p...