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According to Bentham, ethical hard choices:
 
  A. can be solved by simply counting up all the pleasures and pains involved.
 
  B. can only be resolved by giving up utilitarianism.
 
  C. are not common enough to be important.
  D. are caused by selfishness.
 
  E. can be solved only by moral relativism.

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According to the author, the most impressive advantage of utilitarianism is that it:
 
  A. shows any type of act (e.g. lying) might, under the right circumstances, be morally right.
 
  B. explains what pleasure is.
  C. provides a criterion for judging legislation.
 
  D. reduces complex moral problems to problems of investigation and addition.
 
  E. doesn't require us to assume the existence of God.



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sylvia

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Answer to Question 1

Answer: A

Answer to Question 2

Answer: D




joe

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Reply 2 on: Jul 14, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Excellent

 

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