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BSc/BA/BEng EXAMINATION
6AANA099
UTILITARIANISM
SUMMER 2013
TIME ALLOWED: TWO HOURS
ANSWER TWO QUESTIONS
Candidates should avoid overlap in their answers
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6AANA099
ANSWER TWO QUESTIONS.
1 Critically assess Bentham’s hedonism.
2 How, if at all, can hedonism respond to the problems of
disgusting and vicious pleasures?
3 Is John Stuart Mill a hedonist?
4 How, and how well, does Mill reconcile the demands of the
Principle of Utility with the ascription of individual rights?
5 How, if at all, can Utilitarianism account for the moral
importance of good moral character?
6 Is Utilitarianism an impossibly demanding moral theory?
7 Assess Sidgwick’s defence of rational egoism.
8 Expound and assess Mill’s defence of freedom of speech in On
Liberty.
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