Useful Utilities
A Virtuous Cycle
What's in the Contract?
Gender? I Hardly Know Her!
Race to the Finish
100
This what certain consequentialists, such as Bentham and Mill, want to maximize.
What is utility or happiness?
100
This is the state between a vice of excess and a vice of deficiency.
What is virtue?
100
This is the theory governing decisions made by rational actors in game-like scenarios.
What is Game theory?
100
This is Gender.
What is the social division of between "men" and "women"?
100
This is the position that race corresponds to biological categories, with natural traits.
What is racial essentialism?
200
This is a notion of going above and beyond the call of moral duty, and is sometimes invoked in critiquing utilitarianism, since it does not seem to allow room for it.
What is supererogation?
200
This is what Aristotle says all life is aimed at - sometimes translated as "flourishing"
What is Eudaimonia?
200
This is the condition which Hobbes called "Nasty, brutish, and short."
What is the state of nature?
200
This is the term that refers to the right to vote.
What is suffrage?
200
This is the form of racism not dependent on the beliefs of individual actors.
What is institutional racism?
300
This is the view that we should be using utilitarianism to generate rules for action, rather than specific acts.
What is rule-utilitarianism?
300
This is the distinction between being able to ride a bike, and being able to name the parts of a bike.
What is the distinction between knowledge-how and knowledge-that?
300
John Rawls proposed this as the state from which we should make decisions about how to distribute resources.
What is the Veil of Ignorance?
300
Beauvoir proposes that "One is not born, but rather becomes a woman" because she is this to men.
What is the Other?
300
This is the distinction between racial constructivist and racial skepticism.
The former: race corresponds to socially-created categories, and so we can have knowledge about it. The latter: race corresponds to nothing, and so we cannot have knowledge of it.
400
This is how Mill responds to the criticism that Utilitarianism is "fit for swines".
What is the distinction between higher and lower pleasures?
400
This philosopher proposed that it is not enough to consider whether you have a "right" to something, but the states of character under which you act on that right.
Who is Rosalind Hursthouse?
400
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What is the Prisoner's dilemma?
400
This is intersectionality.
What is the sources of oppression that is the combined effect of different forms of discrimination, not reducible to both.
400
This author proposed that racial minorities experience a kind of "double-consciousness" - an experience of both themselves and from the perspective of the racial majority.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
500
This thinker proposed that we should hybridize rule utilitarianism with a broader set of simpler moral principles, called two-level utilitarianism.
Who is R.M. Hare?
500
This is the virtue of giving large quantities to public goods, according to Aristotle.
What is magnificence?
500
This is the distinction between Contractarianism and Contractualism.
What is the one advises that moral law is instrumentally valuable and is socially constructed, whereas the other is the product of reason applied to human action?
500
This is the analogy that Fyre uses for systemic oppression.
What is the birdcage?
500
[Party question!] This is race.
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