Deck 12: The Utilitarian: John Stuart Mill

Question 1

Ethical hedonism is the same as psychological hedonism.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Malthus believed that epidemics were natural cures to population growth.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Bentham believed that the interest of the community could not be addressed without attending to the interest of the individual.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Malthus believed that unchecked population growth increased arithmetically.

Question 5

In Britain the Industrial Revolution started around 1680.

Question 6

Mill was a utilitarian.

Question 7

Bentham was a deontologist.

Question 8

Malthus was enthusiastic about the success of possible social reforms.

Question 9

Jeremy Bentham was French.

Question 10

John Stuart_____ s last name was Mills .

Question 11

Kant was a utilitarian.

Question 12

Bentham held that all government is itself evil.

Question 13

If mankind minus one were of one opinion, Mill held it would be legitimate to silence the lone dissenter.

Question 14

The principle of utility is sometimes referred to as the pleasure principle.

Question 15

Bentham argued that each counts as one and none more .

Question 16

Bentham ordered that his body be cremated.

Question 17

Kant would have agreed with Bentham s approach.

Question 18

Two competing impulses struggle to control the direction of any society.

Question 19

Bentham thought that legislators should consider the greatest happiness of the greatest number.

Question 20

Malthus wrote The Wealth of Nations .

Question 21

Malebranche believed that dogs were just machines.

Question 22

What was moral dignity a function of, for Kant?

A) Suffering
B) Virtue
C) The soul
D) Rationality

Question 23

Who wrote Treatise on Man ?

A) Mill
B) Bentham
C) Malebranche
D) Descartes

Question 24

What did Mill defend?

A) Deontology
B) Individual Liberty
C) Unrestricted government
D) Catholic theology

Question 25

Mil s education robbed him of

A) any ability to be emotional
B) his childhood
C) nothing
D) the ability to empathize

Question 26

Mill held that his education was one of

A) love
B) fear
C) desire
D) submission

Question 27

Bentham was a laissez-faire reformer.

Question 28

Bentham endorsed Kant s conception of the good will.

Question 29

Bentham wrote of hedons .

Question 30

Bentham saw himself as a great legislator.

Question 31

James Mill believed that at birth

A) all minds are the same
B) all minds are different
C) some people are doomed to be irrational
D) males are mentally different from females

Question 32

The Enlightenment was the Age of Reform.

Question 33

Bentham recognized that ethics was not a science, and could never be one.

Question 34

The term utility has only one clear meaning.

Question 35

Bentham s philosophy was at base

A) selfless
B) egoistic
C) deontological
D) subjective

Question 36

Who accepted Descartes views on animals?

A) Singer
B) Rawls
C) Malebranche
D) Bentham

Question 37

Bentham wanted to take advantage of persons self-interest.

Question 38

Bentham coined the term utiles .

Question 39

At what age did Mill learn Greek?

A) 3
B) 5
C) 7
D) 9

Question 40

What did Bentham think counted, morally?

A) Suffering
B) Dignity
C) Intention
D) Love

Question 41

How is Bentham s view of morality different from that of Kant? Which is the more realistic? Does this also mean that it is the most correct? Explain your answer, taking care to define how you understand the term realistic .

Question 42

Which ancient school did Mill most identify with?

A) Lyceum
B) Academy
C) Garden
D) Grove

Question 43

What, for Mill, was the principle cause of unhappiness?

A) Socialism
B) Atheism
C) Selfishness
D) Love

Question 44

Mill began to pay the high price of his education when he was

A) 12
B) 26
C) 16
D) 20

Question 45

What notion did Mill introduce into utilitarianism?

A) Utility
B) Hedons
C) Quality
D) Intensity

Question 46

How many functions did education have, for Mill?

A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4

Question 47

Altruism is opposed to

A) egoism
B) utilitarianism
C) deontology
D) theism

Question 48

What is Bentham s view of pleasure? What is Mill s? What are the problems associated with each?

Question 49

Who wrote Utilitarianism ?

A) Mill
B) Kant
C) Bentham
D) Moore

Question 50

In what way is utilitarianism a response to the social conditions of the nineteenth century? Do you believe that it is still relevant today? Explain your answer.

Question 51

Mill was married to

A) Harriet Taylor
B) Harriet Ulizio
C) Elizabeth Taylor
D) Elizabeth Smart

Question 52

Who said that the self-centered passions had little variety?

A) Mill
B) Rawls
C) Russell
D) Bentham

Question 53

Who referred to a moral thermometer ?

A) Kant
B) Mill
C) Taylor
D) Bentham

Question 54

Outline the forms of utilitarianism developed by both Bentham and Mill. What are the principle differences between them? Which do you believe is the most defensible, and why?

Question 55

Altruism is from the Latin word for

A) self
B) love
C) other
D) wrong

Question 56

Do you believe that pleasure is the ground of morality? Why, or why not?

Question 57

What was the crucial difference between two pleasures, for Bentham?

A) duration
B) intensity
C) rationality
D) morality

Question 58

Who said that it was better to be a human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied?

A) Kant
B) Rawls
C) Mill
D) Yutang

Question 59

Who wrote that it would be sad for a ghost to be without a body?

A) Mill
B) Bentham
C) Lao-tzu
D) Yutang

Question 60

Who wrote of the tyranny of the majority?

A) de Tocqueville
B) Yutang
C) Rawls
D) Lao-tze

Question 61

What is altruism? Should we try to encourage it? If so, why? If not, why not?

Question 62

What are the similarities and differences between the utilitarian focus on happiness and Aristotle s focus on eudaimonia ?

Question 63

What is ethical egoism? What is psychological egoism? What is the relationship (if any) between them?