The trolley problem is used to illustrate which of the following?
A) The complexity of calculating morality using a cost-benefit analysis.
B) The difficulty involved in making utilitarian decisions.
C) The morality of public vs. private transportation.
D) The basis of rule utilitarianism.
A
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Michel Foucault wrote extensively on the nature of communication and this, which was a central concept in his analysis
a. gender. b. power. c. language. d. morality.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Hildegard of Bingen founded her own convent and was the author of books about religion and science. 2. During the French Revolution, women in France began expressing their opinions on the issue of equal rights for women. 3. Among women ethicists before the twentieth century are Mary Wollstonecraft, Harriet Taylor Mill, and Antoinette Brown Blackwell. 4. Wollstonecraft argued that if the only thing girls are taught is how to seduce a man in order to acquire a husband, it may not lead to a happy married life. 5. Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the few women of the eighteenth century who addressed women's issues.
Karl Marx is famous for saying __________
a. God is dead b. if there were no God anything would be permissible c. if there were no God we would have to invent one d. religion is the opiate of the masses
Johnson and Powers hold that allowing artifacts to have agency
a. Diminishes the responsibility of their users c. Is philosophically mistaken as it broadens the scope of the moral community too far b. Does not diminish the responsibility of their users d. Is philosophically mistaken as it still offers an overly-narrow view of moral agency.