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PART A

Questions:

• What is utilitarianism? Why is this proposal a form of consequentialism?

• How is utilitarianism different from straightforwardhedonism? What does utilitarianism mean by the hedonic calculus?

• Why do consequentialist views like utilitarianism entail that any action can be morally permissible in the right circumstances?

• What is retributivism? Why might a utilitarian argue that punishments should avoid, where possible, harming the offender? What, instead, would the point of punishment be for the utilitarian?

• Why might a utilitarian hold that they are not under any general moral obligation to keep their promises? If true, why might that make utilitarianism self-defeating?

• Why does utilitarianism seem to have a problem accounting for friendship, and in particular the special obligations that we seem to have to our friends? Do they?

• What is the distinction between ruleand act utilitarianism? How does rule utilitarianism avoid some of the problems facing utilitarianism? What problems facing the view does it not deal with?

• How might rule utilitarianisms accommodate the notion of rights (and why might act utilitarianism struggle to accommodate this notion)? Does it capture why we believe that human beings have certain fundamental rights?

Attachment:- Part B.rar