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Question 1

Hedonistic utilitarianism on eating animals

Answer 1

If pleasure and pain are the only morally important things, then the pain or pleasure animals feel will be relevant. Eating animals will be wrong if the total pain produced outweighs the total pleasure.

Question 2

Hedonistic utilitarianism on simulated killing

Answer 2

Simulated killing is only wrong if the total pain produced outweighs the total pleasure produced.

Question 3

Hedonistic utilitarianism on telling lies

Answer 3

Telling lies will only be wrong if the pain produced outweighs the pleasure produced.

Question 4

Hedonistic utilitarianism on stealing

Answer 4

Stealing will only be wrong if the pain produced outweighs the pleasure produced.

Question 5

Kantian deontological ethics on eating animals

Answer 5

Animals are not rational, so eating animals does not go against either formulation of the categorical imperative, so would not be wrong

Question 6

Kantian deontological ethics on simulated killing

Answer 6

Simulated killing does not seem to go against either formulation of the categorical imperative, so would not be wrong

Question 7

Kantian deontological ethics on telling lies

Answer 7

Lying goes against both formulations of the categorical imperative, so is always morally wrong

Question 8

Kantian deontological ethics on stealing

Answer 8

Stealing goes against both formulations of the categorical imperative, so is always morally wrong.

Question 9

Aristotle on eating animals

Answer 9

Whether eating animals is right or wrong depends upon whether it makes someone more or less virtuous. This may depend upon the situatio

Question 10

Aristotle on simulated killing

Answer 10

Simulated killing is wrong if it does not lead to the development of virtuous character traits

Question 11

Aristotle on telling lies

Answer 11

Whether lying is right or wrong depends upon whether it makes someone more or less virtuous. This may depend upon the situatio

Question 12

Aristotle on stealing

Answer 12

Whether stealing is right or wrong depends upon whether it makes someone more or less virtuous which depends on the situation

Question 13

Ethical non-naturalists

Answer 13

If the action is wrong then it has a non-natural property which can be intuited

Question 14

Ethical naturalists

Answer 14

If the action is wrong then it has a natural property which can be known empirically

Question 15

Error theorists

Answer 15

None of these actions have properties of moral rightness or wrongness, because these properties do not exist.

Question 16

Emotivists

Answer 16

When we make talk about the morality of these issues we are doing no more than expressing our emotions about them

Question 17

Prescriptivists

Answer 17

When we make talk about the morality of these issues we are doing no more than uttering imperatives