Quiz 🦉 Philosophy
Harvard Justice: Ethics Arguments
Utilitarianism, rights, equality, and justice debates.
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Question 1
Utilitarianism evaluates actions primarily by what standard?
- Consequences for overall happiness or welfare
- Whether an action is written in Latin
- Only whether a judge approves
- The age of the decision-maker
Question 2
A rights-based objection to utilitarianism often argues what?
- Some individual claims should not be overridden merely to maximize aggregate welfare
- Consequences never matter in public decisions
- Markets cannot involve choices
- All laws are chemistry problems
Question 3
Kantian ethics is commonly associated with which idea?
- Respecting persons as ends in themselves
- Valuing people only by market price
- Ignoring intention in every case
- Measuring justice only by DNA sequence
Question 4
Rawls's veil of ignorance is designed to model what?
- Fair choice of principles without knowing one's social position
- A rule of evidence about hearsay
- A genetic mutation
- A price ceiling
Question 5
A market-skeptic argument about civic goods might claim what?
- Some goods are corrupted or changed when bought and sold
- All exchange is mathematically impossible
- No one ever responds to incentives
- Prices are always illegal
Question 6
A virtue ethics approach asks primarily what question?
- What kind of person or community does this practice cultivate?
- How many codons are in mRNA?
- Which court has diversity jurisdiction?
- What is the slope of supply?
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