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Utilitarianism judges the morality of an action based on:

The difference between act utilitarianism and rule utilitarianism is that:

John Stuart Mill argued that pleasures differ not just in quantity but in:

The 'utility monster' objection to utilitarianism argues that:

Peter Singer's 'effective altruism' extends utilitarian reasoning to argue that:

Preference utilitarianism differs from classical utilitarianism in that it maximizes:

The trolley problem reveals a tension between:

A major criticism of utilitarianism is that it can potentially justify:

Bentham's 'hedonic calculus' attempted to quantify pleasure using factors including:

The 'experience machine' thought experiment (Nozick) challenges utilitarianism by asking:

Kant's categorical imperative in its first formulation states:

Kant's second formulation of the categorical imperative requires that we:

Deontological ethics differs from consequentialism primarily in claiming that:

Kant argued that the only thing good 'without qualification' is:

The doctrine of double effect allows an action with a harmful side effect if:

W.D. Ross's 'prima facie duties' approach modified strict Kantianism by arguing that:

A rights-based approach to ethics argues that:

Kant's concept of 'autonomy' in moral reasoning means:

The 'kingdom of ends' formulation envisions a moral community where:

A common objection to Kantian ethics is that:

Virtue ethics asks the question:

Aristotle's concept of 'eudaimonia' is best translated as:

The 'doctrine of the mean' in Aristotle's ethics holds that virtue is:

Phronesis (practical wisdom) in Aristotle's ethics is:

A key criticism of virtue ethics is that it:

The care ethics tradition (Carol Gilligan, Nel Noddings) challenges traditional ethics by emphasizing:

Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue argues that modern moral philosophy has failed because:

For Aristotle, moral virtues are acquired through:

Confucian virtue ethics shares with Aristotelian virtue ethics an emphasis on:

The 'situationist critique' challenges virtue ethics by arguing that:

In medical ethics, the principle of 'autonomy' means:

The ethical concept of 'informed consent' requires:

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is debated because:

The 'veil of ignorance' in John Rawls's theory of justice asks you to choose principles of justice:

The ethical debate around AI bias centers on:

The 'non-identity problem' in ethics challenges our intuitions about obligations to future generations because:

Whistleblowing is ethically justified when:

Peter Singer's argument for animal rights is grounded in:

Moral relativism — the view that moral truths vary across cultures — faces the objection that:

The 'trolley problem' variations (switch vs. footbridge) suggest that our moral intuitions are influenced by: