Question

In The Right and the Good, W. D. Ross argues for an ethics based on these self-evident things, which are used in both mathematics and ethics to teach us all we know about numbers and about duty. For 10 points each,
[10h] Name these things. Theories grounding ethics in these things dominated Britain from the early 18th to the late 20th century, and their use was later defended by thinkers like Henry Sidgwick and G. E. Moore.
ANSWER: moral intuitions [accept intuitionism]
[10m] The variety of responses to this thinker’s trolley problem has often been used as an argument against moral intuitionism, since it apparently shows that people have conflicting intuitions.
ANSWER: Philippa Foot
[10e] Foot’s trolley problem originally served as an argument against this consequentialist ethical system developed by Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill.
ANSWER: utilitarianism [accept word forms such as utilitarian]
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Berkeley ABerkeley B10101030
Berkeley CStanford A0101020
Toronto Ray Of Sun in the SkyMcDouble West-Carleton0101020
WaterlooOttawa A0101020
Ottawa COttawa B001010
I will play anything with a buzzer in front of meClaremont0101020
Chicago ANotre Dame B0101020
Notre Dame AChicago B001010
Purdue AIllinois A0101020
Illinois BVanderbilt0101020
IndianaPurdue B001010
Syracuse+RochesterCornell MATLAB0101020
RITCornell R0101020
Missouri BMissouri A001010
SIUESquidward Community College001010
WUSTL H2OWUSTL XYZ001010