Philosophy 2700F/G Study Guide - Quiz Guide: John Stuart Mill, Henry Sidgwick, Jeremy Bentham
17 May 2018
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Quiz 1 January 16, 2018
1. The part of philosophy that includes meta-ethics, normative ethics, and practical ethics.
Q: What is moral philosophy?
2. The view according to which no moral theory or moral judgement could be true.
Q: What is moral scepticism?
Quiz 2 January 23, 2018
1. The philosophers Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill and Henry Sidgwick.
Q: Who are the classical utilitarians?
2. The view according to which all and only pleasure has non-instrumental value and all and only
pain has non-instrumental disvalue.
Q: What is hedonism?
Quiz 3 January 30, 2018
1. The Millian view that some pleasures are as a kind in themselves better than others.
Q: What is qualitative hedonism?
2. The view that all knowledge has its source ultimately in sensory evidence or in sensory
experience.
Q: What is empiricism?
Quiz 4 February 6, 2018
1. The name for the odd fact that we better achieve the goal of being happy by making something
other than happiness our direct pursuit.
Q: What is the paradox of happiness?
2. The variety of seeigs that “treet says Nozik ad those like hi rely o to estalish that
there are non-instrumental values other than pleasure.
Q: What are intellectual seemings?
Quiz 5 February 13, 2018
1. The fallacy that Mill commits in reasoning from what is true of the parts of the aggregate of all
sentient beings to what is true of the aggregate of sentient beings as a whole.
Q: What is the fallacy of composition?
2. The psychological view which Mill relies in his proof of the principle of utility on which the aim is
to determine the laws governing the succession of our mental states.
Q: What is associationism?
Quiz 6 February 27, 2018
1. The variety of responsibility that Williams says consequentialists are committed to, on which
one is just as responsible for what one allows or fails to prevent as one is for what one (in the
ordinary sense) does.
Q: What is negative responsibility?
Quiz 7 March 6, 2018
1. The only thing that, for Kant, is good without limitation or qualification.
Q: What is the good will?
2. The thing that, for Kant, is the most complete good.
Q: What is happiness in proportion to/in accordance with virtue?
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Document Summary
Quiz 1 january 16, 2018: the part of philosophy that includes meta-ethics, normative ethics, and practical ethics. Q: what is moral philosophy: the view according to which no moral theory or moral judgement could be true. Q: what is moral scepticism: the philosophers jeremy bentham, john stuart mill and henry sidgwick. Quiz 2 january 23, 2018: the view according to which all and only pleasure has non-instrumental value and all and only pain has non-instrumental disvalue. Q: what is hedonism: the millian view that some pleasures are as a kind in themselves better than others. Q: what is qualitative hedonism: the view that all knowledge has its source ultimately in sensory evidence or in sensory. Q: what is empiricism: the name for the odd fact that we better achieve the goal of being happy by making something. Quiz 4 february 6, 2018 other than happiness our direct pursuit.
