- Explain what the principle of double effect is and why it applies in the lever but not the footbridge version of the trolley dilemmas.
- Explain the extent to which Kant’s categorical imperative permits one to tell a “white lie”, i.e. a lie based on good intentions.
- Explain Mill’s response to the argument that utilitarianism diminishes human worth in making pleasure the only thing that is intrinsically good.
- Explain the difference between instrumental and intrinsic goods, and provide an example of each.
- Explain the difference between first and second order desires in relation to the concept of autonomy in Kant.
- What is Bentham’s psychological hedonism, and how does it explain one’s going to work even when one wants to sleep in?
- With reference to at least three components of Bentham’s hedonic calculus, explain the extent to which utilitarianism permits one to tell a “white lie”, i.e. a lie based on good intentions.
- Explain why, according to Epicurus, we ought not to be afraid of death.
- Explain what teleology is and how it determines Aristotle’s use of the term “good”
- Explain how the principle of double effect can be applied to two cases other than the trolley dilemmas.
