Does the End Justify the Means?

Watch the video carefully and answer the following questions as you go along.

1. What was the moral dilemma that Malaysia faced?

2. What is the defining feature of Utilitarianism?

3. Who or what should ‘point out what we ought to do’ according to Bentham?

4. What sorts of traditional justification did the Enlightenment reject?

5. What is the problem with purely economic measures of consequences?

6. In what way does Mill make Utilitarianism more complex?

7. How have modern day Utilitarians defended the theory?

8. Why have critics suggested that Utilitarianism ‘demands a great deal from us’?

9. Who invented ‘Ideal Utilitarianism’ in the early 20th century?

10. Why have some people claimed that ecological diversity is not a good in itself?

11. Who or what else did Bentham include in his ‘Moral Community’?

12. What is the ‘chief value’ of Utilitarian theory according to the video?

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