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. Of two optional actions, the sum of the numbers that measure the costs and the benefits that would result from your choosing either option is referred to as the __________ good.

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. Act consequentialism, in general, claims that the best thing to do, in any circumstance, is

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. Which of the following objections has been made against act consequentialism?

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. Act utilitarianism differs from act consequentialism, in general, by

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. Act utilitarians believe that the best thing to do, in any circumstance, is

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. __________ wrote, "It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."

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. Which of the following objection(s) has been raised against act utilitarianism?

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. What type of utilitarianism leaves it as an open question whether the rights of one person may be sacrificed for the utility of the many?

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. Rule consequentialism argues that one ought to always

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. Rule utilitarianism claims that one ought to always

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. For Kant, an action that is performed with praiseworthy motives is what type of action?

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. Kant's universalization test states that given a maxim, we ought to consider whether it is possible for everyone to successfully adopt the maxim. Then,

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. Kant calls the capacity for choosing goals and rationally pursuing them

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. Kant claimed that a human being is not a thing and thus

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. Lying, for Kant, is

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