Exam 14: What Should We Do Part I?

Rule utilitarianism claims that one ought to always

Which of the following objections has been made against act consequentialism?

"So act that you use humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, always at the same time as an end, never merely as a means." This quotation captures Kant's

Act consequentialists have responded to the difficulty/impossibility of determining the proper action to take under their theory by pointing out that

For Kant, an action that is performed with praiseworthy motives is what type of action?

Rule consequentialism argues that one ought to always

Kant's universalization test states that given a maxim, we ought to consider whether it is possible for everyone to successfully adopt the maxim. Then,

Act utilitarians have criticized rule utilitarians for

"Many people are so sympathetically constituted that without any motive of vanity or selfishness they find an inner satisfaction in spreading joy and take delight in the contentment of others if they have made it possible." According to Kant, such behavior as described in this passage

The English philosopher Jeremy Bentham was an early proponent of

The aggregate utility of an action is the sum of all the

Which of the following objection(s) has been raised against act utilitarianism?

The decision-making process where costs and benefits are usually measured in dollars is called a(n) __________ analysis.

__________ wrote, "It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."

__________ wrote, "But if someone really thinks, in advance, that it is open to question whether such an action as procuring the judicial execution of the innocent should be quite excluded from consideration-I do not want to argue with him; he shows a corrupt mind."

Rule utilitarianism is a combination of

Kant claimed that a human being is not a thing and thus

The basic idea behind Kant's humanity formula is that human beings, unlike things, are owed

Explain Kant's argument for his universalization test as well as an objection against it.

Kant calls the capacity for choosing goals and rationally pursuing them