PHI 208 Week 2 Quiz - Spring 2016
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PHI 208 Week 2 Quiz - Spring 2016 1. What is a key feature of utilitarianism according to the assigned texts? 2. How do we determine the difference between higher and lower pleasures, according to Mill? 3. Which of the following describes how egg-laying hens are treated in factory farms, according to the video “Meet Your Meat”? 4. What is Tom Regan’s position about the use of animals in research and agriculture? 5. According to Tom Regan, what is fundamentally wrong with the treatment of animals in our current system? 6. Which of the following statements is the strongest evidence that the person saying it is a utilitarian? 7. What moral theory does Jeremy Bentham (with whom Singer seems to agree) endorse? 8. The video “Meet Your Meat” can best be described as primarily communicating which message? 9. According to the video “Meet Your Meat”, which of the following is true of how animals are slaughtered on factory farms 10. According to chapter 2 of Understanding Philosophy, utilitarianism is a form of what broader kind of ethical theory? 11. According to chapter 2 of Understanding Philosophy, which of the following would be an expression of rule utilitarianism, rather than act utilitarianism? 12. In what way is Peter Singer’s argument in “All Animals are Equal” utilitarian? 13. How does John Stuart Mill respond to the complaint that utilitarianism is a doctrine worthy of pigs? 14. In what way does Peter Singer think that speciesism is similar to racism and sexism? 15. According to John Stuart Mill, utilitarianism takes into account the happiness of 16. What is the point of Regan’s discussion about Aunt Bea and utilitarianism’s respect for human life? 17. Which of the following does not describe the ways that chickens and turkeys are treated on factory farms, according to the video “Meet Your Meat” 18. What is speciesism according to Peter Singer’s account? 19. Peter Singer’s “basic principle of equality” applied to animals means: 20. Which of the following does Tom Regan say about the utilitarian approach to animal ethics?