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MA/MSc EXAMINATION
7AAN2011
ETHICS
SUMMER 2013
TIME ALLOWED: TWO HOURS
ANSWER TWO QUESTIONS
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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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