Exam 13: Aristotle's Ethics: Exploring Virtue and Justice

Bentham understands the utility of an object or action to be its tendency to promote the pleasure and diminish the pain of those affected by it.

Which of the following best captures McMahan's main conclusion of "Torture in Principle and in Practice"?

Which of the following best captures the notion of "wasteful driving" that Sinnott-Armstrong discusses?

Liu's main conclusion in this paper is:

According to Wolf, which of the following is NOT advanced by opponents of physician-assisted suicide as a likely consequence of permitting the practice?

What does Woollard think is required for your body and other resources to genuinely belong to you?

Abbate's arguments imply that soldiers fighting an unjust war do not have an obligation to protect civilians from their own country.

Abbate defines "collateral casualties" as harm to civilians that are a side effect of soldiers' pursuing a legitimate military objective.

In your own words, explain van den Haag's analogy between risky pursuits such as construction and capital punishment. What conclusion does he draw on the basis of this analogy?

Explain what Bentham means by the "intensity, duration, certainty or uncertainty, and propinquity or remoteness" of a pleasure.

Why, according to Gay-Williams, would so-called passive euthanasia not be considered a form of euthanasia? Summarize in your own words the argument for this conclusion.

Mill distinguishes between pleasures of higher and lower quality. To what objection is he responding when he draws that distinction?

What role does the idea of need and dependency play in Akan ethics?

Briefly describe any three of the six objections that Strawser considers.

Which of the following is NOT one of the things we need to know to calculate the value of a particular pleasure or pain, according to Bentham?

Which of the following claims would be implied by Nathanson's claims about the sources of moral desert?

In your own words, state Dershowitz's main conclusion in "Should the Ticking Bomb Terrorist Be Tortured" and summarize his main argument for that conclusion.

A central premise of Rachels's argument against the conventional doctrine endorsed by the American Medical Association is that killing someone is not always morally worse than letting someone die.

Which of the following cases would McMahan likely regard as an instance of an action that is subjectively, but not objectively justified?

What is the point of Mencius's story about Ox Mountain?