3 and 5 marker practice

Review guidance on these question types and answer the following:

3 markers:

1. What is metaethics?

2. What is deontology? The study of what one must do (deon (Greek) means ‘one must’).
Deontology claims that actions are right or wrong in themselves, not depending on their
consequences. We have moral duties to do things which it is right to do and moral duties not
to do things which it is wrong to do.
3. What are the claims of hedonistic act utilitarianism?
The theory that only happiness is good, and the right act is that act that maximises
happiness. Hedonist act utilitarianism understands happiness in terms of the balance of
pleasure over pain.
5 markers:

5 Explain Bentham's mechanism for making a moral decision

6 Explain the key ideas of Mill’s qualitative act utilitarianism

7 Outline Mill’s proof of utilitarianism

8 Explain Moore’s objection to Mill’s proof of utilitarianism

9 Explain how Nozick’s experience machine thought experiment challenges hedonism