Philosophy 2320 Exam 2: Written

What Shafer-Landau believes is wrong with the first assumption concerning morality and religion

If you’re only worried about gaining a reward or avoiding punishment, it’s the wrong kind of motivation.

One of the four advantages of natural law theory

Gives us a clear account of the origins of morality

The main objection to psychological egosim

The view is not supported by our common experience

One of the two advantages of ethical egoism

It explains why we ought to be motivated to do what is morally right

One of the three objections to ethical egoism

Ethical Egoism violates core moral beliefs

Two of Bentham’s six features by which we can measure happiness or pleasure

Intensity

Purity

One of the five advantages of utilitarianism

It has moral flexibility

Two of the three ways utilitarianism might be too demanding

Deliberation

Action

The question known as Euthyphro’s Dilemma

Is something morally right because God commands it, or does God command something because it is morally right?

The name of the fallacy commited by Mill in Mill’s moral argument

Fallacy of Composition