Utilitarianism
I developed the moral calculus
Who is Jeremy Bentham?
I eat breakfast 1000 yards from people trained to kill me.
Who is Col. Nathan Jessup?
This is the main meta-priniciple of Kant.
What is the Categorical Imperative?
Plato and Aristotle focus on what idea in their ethics.
What is character or virtue?
This is the term to describe the different practices in various parts of the world.
What is cultural relativism?
Quality of happiness matters to him.
Who is John Stuart Mill?
I prefer to plea-bargain cases.
Who is Dan Kaffee?
This is the only purely good thing we know of.
What is a Good Will?
For Aristotle, this is something you do, not feel.
What is happiness?
This type of relativism focuses on each of us choosing our own values.
What is subjectivism?
These are four types of being to consider changing places with Mill offers as a thought experiment.
What are animal, person of low intelligence, an uneducated person, and a rascal/person with no conscience?
Unit, Corps, God, Country.
What is the Marine Code?
Kant uses this term to describe rational beings.
What is an end-in-itself?
These are the four virtues that Rachels discusses in his article.
What are courage, generosity, honesty, and loyalty?
These are the two names of the premises that Pojman uses in the argument for relativism.
What are the diversity and dependency thesis?
This is the name of Mill's one meta-rule.
What is the Greatest Happiness Principle? Or the Principle of Utility?
When I learned of this, I gave up and killed myself.
What is the doctoring of the log books for Andrews Air Force base?
For Kant, this phrase captures the idea of the moral community.
What is the Kingdom of Ends?
The four types of ethical law theories that Rachels mentions are...
What are egoism, utilitarianism, Kantianism, and Social Contract theory?
This first example from Pojman suggests that there are moral principles that we all can quickly accept.
What is "It is wrong to torture people for the fun of it?"
This story could be read as questioning the value of Utilitarianism.
What is "The Ones who walk away from Omelas?"
I realized that what I did was wrong and I should have stood up for a weaker colleague.
Who is Hal Dawson?
What has dignity, according to Kant?
What are Persons or rational beings?
For Rachels, loyalty implies what problem for Utilitarians or Kantians?
What is the virtue of treating friends and family differently than others?
This is the name of the moral principles that Pojman claims can be argued for as universal.
What are prima facie Principles?