The Fellowship of the Ring
The author of ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’.
Who is J.R.R. Tolkien?
In Christian theology, the figure known as the ‘father of lies’.
Who is Satan?
Kant’s central moral principle.
What is the Categorical Imperative?
The quantity utilitarianism seeks to maximize.
What is happiness or overall utility?
The philosopher most associated with classical Natural Law theory.
Who is Thomas Aquinas?
The birthday Bilbo celebrates at the start of the story.
What is his 111th birthday (eleventy-first)?
The New Testament book describing the Armor of God.
What is Ephesians?
According to Kant, moral actions must stem from this, not consequences.
What is duty?
A key philosopher associated with utilitarianism, often mentioned alongside Jeremy Bentham.
Who is John Stuart Mill?
Natural Law says moral rules come from this source.
What are human nature, reason, or the natural order?
The inn where Frodo and his friends first meet Aragorn.
What is the Prancing Pony?
This piece of the Armor of God represents readiness to share the gospel.
What are the shoes of peace?
This concept says you must act only according to maxims that you can will to become universal laws.
What is universalizability?
Utilitarianism evaluates the morality of an action based on this outcome.
What are its consequences?
Natural Law theory greatly influenced this document written by Thomas Jefferson.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This river is where the Fellowship makes their final decision to split.
What is the River Anduin?
This New Testament writer most clearly teaches about spiritual warfare.
Who is Paul?
Kant believes humans must never be treated merely as these.
What are means to an end?
The term for Bentham’s method of measuring pleasure and pain.
What is the hedonic calculus?
According to Natural Law, this is the ultimate source of moral law in the universe.
What is God?
This ancient creature battles Gandalf in the Mines of Moria.
What is the Balrog?
This weapon of the Spirit is described as the only offensive part of the Armor of God.
What is the Word of God?
Kant argues that moral worth depends entirely on this internal factor.
What is the good will?
This variant of utilitarianism focuses on the greatest good for rule-following behaviors rather than individual acts.
What is rule utilitarianism?
This term refers to the precepts that all humans can know through reason in Natural Law theory.
What are the primary precepts?