PHI208 Week2 Quiz: questions with approved answers 2020 docx (Walden university)

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PHI208 Week2 Quiz: questions with approved answers 2020 docx (Walden university) 1. Question : According to chapter 2 of Understanding Philosophy, which of the following makes it difficult to calcul... ate the utility of an act, raising a potential problem for utilitarianism? Question 2. Question : In what way does Peter Singer think that speciesism is similar to racism and sexism? Question 3. Question : According to Tom Regan, what is fundamentally wrong with the treatment of animals in our current system? Question 4. Question : In what way is Peter Singer’s argument in “All Animals are Equal” utilitarian? Question 5. Question : Which of the following describes how egg-laying hens are treated in factory farms, according to the video “Meet Your Meat”? Question 6. Question : Which of the following does Tom Regan say about the utilitarian approach to animal ethics? Question 7. Question : Tom Regan’s view of animals is that: Question 8. Question : What is Tom Regan’s position about the use of animals in research and agriculture? Question 9. Question : According to chapter 2 of Understanding Philosophy, utilitarianism is a form of what broader kind of ethical theory? Question 10. Question : Peter Singer’s “basic principle of equality” applied to animals means: Question 11. Question : The video “Meet Your Meat” can best be described as primarily communicating which message? Question 12. Question : How does John Stuart Mill respond to the complaint that utilitarianism is a doctrine worthy of pigs? Question 13. Question : According to John Stuart Mill, utilitarianism takes into account the happiness of: Question 14. Question : Which of the following statements is the strongest evidence that the person saying it is a utilitarian? Question 15. Question : What is the point of Regan’s discussion about Aunt Bea and utilitarianism’s respect for human life? Question 16. Question : According to Mill, utilitarian morality holds that: Question 17. Question : 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” Question 18. Question : According to the video “Meet Your Meat”, which of the following is true of how animals are slaughtered on factory farms Question 19. Question : According to chapter 2 of Understanding Philosophy, which of the following would be an expression of rule utilitarianism, rather than act utilitarianism? Question 20. Question : What is a key feature of utilitarianism according to the assigned texts? [Show More]

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