From What Utilitarianism Is by John Stuart Mill respond to the following questions: 1. How does Mill distinguish between the higher and the lower pleasures? Is this distinction convincing?2. In what way or ways do you think that utilitarianism challenges traditional conceptions of morality? Doesutilitarianism demand more of us than does traditional morality?3. Can you think of any counterexamples to the doctrine of utilitarianism? In other words, do you think that utilitarianism might, on some occasions, demand that one should perform an act which, though justified by utility, might still seem deeply immoral or unjust?4. How might utilitarianism relate to markets and commerce? For example, does the claim that we should maximize utility entail that we should maximize economic productivity? Is the maximization of profit within a firm the same as maximizing utility?5. Suppose that you are seeking a new assistant manager for your company, and you have narrowed theapplicants to four individuals. As it happens, these individuals are similar in almost all of the aspects relevant to job performance: skills, experience, knowledge, motivation, interests, and educational backgrounds. However, in your final interviews with these individuals you have learned that one is a virtue ethicist, one an act-utilitarian, one a rule-utilitarian, and the fourth a Kantian. Given that these candidates are equal in so many aspects, how will their ethical outlooks affect your evaluation of them? Whom would you most desire to hire? Whom would you least wish to hire?

Social Psychology (10th Edition)

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ISBN:9780134641287

Author:Elliot Aronson, Timothy D. Wilson, Robin M. Akert, Samuel R. Sommers

Publisher:Elliot Aronson, Timothy D. Wilson, Robin M. Akert, Samuel R. Sommers

Chapter1: Introducing Social Psychology

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From What Utilitarianism Is by John Stuart Mill respond to the following questions:

1. How does Mill distinguish between the higher and the lower pleasures? Is this distinction convincing?
2. In what way or ways do you think that utilitarianism challenges traditional conceptions of morality? Doesutilitarianism demand more of us than does traditional morality?
3. Can you think of any counterexamples to the doctrine of utilitarianism? In other words, do you think that utilitarianism might, on some occasions, demand that one should perform an act which, though justified by utility, might still seem deeply immoral or unjust?
4. How might utilitarianism relate to markets and commerce? For example, does the claim that we should maximize utility entail that we should maximize economic productivity? Is the maximization of profit within a firm the same as maximizing utility?
5. Suppose that you are seeking a new assistant manager for your company, and you have narrowed the
applicants to four individuals. As it happens, these individuals are similar in almost all of the aspects relevant to job performance: skills, experience, knowledge, motivation, interests, and educational backgrounds. However, in your final interviews with these individuals you have learned that one is a virtue ethicist, one an act-utilitarian, one a rule-utilitarian, and the fourth a Kantian. Given that these candidates are equal in so many aspects, how will their ethical outlooks affect your evaluation of them? Whom would you most desire to hire? Whom would you least wish to hire?

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