True or False...
1.__________ As a Consequentialist, Mill is committed to the belief that the only legitimate means by which an act can be morally evaluated is by observing the actual consequences that result from the act.
2. __________ Mill argues that Act Utilitarianism is more practical than Rule Utilitarianism.
3. __________ Mill claims that Kant was successful in abstaining from consequentialist arguments.
4. __________ Mill says that moral goodness is always measured in relation to happiness.
5. __________ According to Mill, the “intent” of an act is the feeling that makes one want to do the act.
6. __________ According to Mill, “rules” that tend to promote happiness must be learned by experience.
7. __________ According to Mill, “rules” that tend to promote happiness are static and cannot change over time.
8. __________ Mill claims that the only beings to whom we have moral obligations are rational beings.
9. __________ According to Mill, the presence of pain in one’s life ruins one’s ability to attain happiness.
10. _________ According to Mill, it is no better to act out of love and compassion for one’s fellow creatures than it is to act out of selfishness and greed.
11. _________ Jerry Mander believes that technology has made societies more successful.
12. _________ According to Jerry Mander, people in industrialized societies have more leisure time than people in pre-technological Tribal societies.
13. _________ Jerry Mander claims that technology itself is neutral, but the way in which it gets used may steer societies in desirable or undesirable directions.
14. _________ One of the basic premises of feminism is that the oppression of women by men is morally wrong and should be brought to an end.
15. _________ Karen Warren believes that the male domination of women is sufficiently similar to the human domination of nature to merit their being treated and addressed together.
16. _________ According to Karen Warren, the "logic of domination" understands difference as indicating superiority and inferiority.
17. _________ Karen Warren describes a "conceptual framework" as a collection of beliefs that are deliberately chosen by us and remain at the forefront of our conscious awareness.