PHI 208 WEEK2 QUIZ
Question 1. Question : What does Tom Regan say is the source of inherent value in an individual, whether human or animal?
Question 2. Question : The video “Meet Your Meat” can best be described a
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PHI 208 WEEK2 QUIZ
Question 1. Question : What does Tom Regan say is the source of inherent value in an individual, whether human or animal?
Question 2. Question : The video “Meet Your Meat” can best be described as primarily communicating which message?
Question 3. Question : Peter Singer’s “basic principle of equality” applied to animals means:
Question 4. Question : What moral theory does Jeremy Bentham (with whom Singer seems to agree) endorse?
Question 5. Question : What is speciesism according to Peter Singer’s account?
Question 6. Question : According to chapter 2 of Understanding Philosophy, which of the following makes it difficult to calculate the utility of an act, raising a potential problem for utilitarianism?
@The answer can be found in section 2.1 of Understanding Philosophy
Question 7. Question : According to chapter 2 of Understanding Philosophy, which of the following would be an expression of rule utilitarianism, rather than act utilitarianism?
@The answer can be found in section 2.1 of Understanding Philosophy
Question 8. Question : What is a key feature of utilitarianism according to the assigned texts?
Question 9. Question : Which of the following statements is the strongest evidence that the person saying it is a utilitarian?
Question 10. Question : How do we determine the difference between higher and lower pleasures, according to Mill?
Question 11. Question : What is the point of Regan’s discussion about Aunt Bea and utilitarianism’s respect for human life?
Question 12. Question : According to Mill, utilitarian morality holds that:
Question 13. Question : What is Tom Regan’s position about the use of animals in research and agriculture?
Question 14. Question : According to chapter 2 of Understanding Philosophy, utilitarianism is a form of what broader kind of ethical theory?
@The answer can be found in section 2.1 of Understanding Philosophy
Question 15. Question : According to Tom Regan, what is fundamentally wrong with the treatment of animals in our current system?
Question 16. Question : According to John Stuart Mill, utilitarianism takes into account the happiness of:
Question 17. Question : Which of the following does Tom Regan say about the utilitarian approach to animal ethics?
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 : 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 20. Question : Which of the following describes how egg-laying hens are treated in factory farms, according to the video “Meet Your Meat”?
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