Exam 4: Utilitarianism

Which of the following was not one of the founders of utilitarianism?

The cost benefit analysis is used by in all of the following circumstances except.

What is preference utilitarianism, and how is it different from traditional utilitarianism?

What is the name of the basic principle of utilitarianism? How is it supposed to be useful in determining what I ought to do?

In his work, Utilitarianism , Mill's test or basis for distinguishing higher from lower pleasures is the preference of those who have experience of both.

According to act utilitarianism, if it produces more net utility or pleasure to give money that I had promised to return to a friend to famine relief instead, then I ought to give it to the relief fund.

According to utilitarian moral theory, happiness is an instrumental good.

What has value because people value it has intrinsic value.

Label as the better choice on utilitarian calculations , A or B, using a scale of -10 (very painful) to +10 (very pleasurable) for degrees of pleasure or happiness. A makes 10 people very happy and 2 people very unhappy, B makes 8 people moderately happy and 1 person mildly unhappy.

According to utilitarianism which of the following is an intrinsic good?

Which of the following is not included in calculating the amount of happiness?

Label as the better choice on utilitarian calculations , A or B, using a scale of -10 (very painful) to +10 (very pleasurable) for degrees of pleasure or happiness. A makes 5 people happy and no one unhappy, B makes 9 people happy and me unhappy.

In the reading from Utilitarianism Mill writes that we have learned by experience that murder and theft are wrong because they are generally injurious to human happiness.