utilitarianism - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

With another philosopher, Bernard Williams wrote a book in which they each argue opposing stances for this system. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this consequentialist system of ethics that promotes “the greatest happiness for the greatest number” according to Jeremy Bentham.

ANSWER: utilitarianism

[10m] Williams was critical of both utilitarianism and Kantian ethics, the latter of which he attacked by introducing this concept. Thomas Nagel expanded on Williams in an essay regarding this concept, in which chance affects ethical judgments.

ANSWER: moral luck [prompt on luck]

[10h] Ninian, a thinker with this last name, coined the term “negative utilitarianism.” Ninian’s brother with this last name, J. J. C., wrote Utilitarianism: For and Against with Williams.

ANSWER: Smart [accept Roderick Ninian Smart or John Jamieson Carswell Smart]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	7	15.71	100%	43%	14%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	7	11.43	71%	29%	14%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	10	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	10	15.00	100%	30%	20%

Data


Stanford L	Berkeley B	10	10	0	20
Berkeley C	Stanford A	10	10	0	20
Berkeley A	Stanford M	10	10	10	30
Colorado College	Arkansas	10	0	0	10
Iowa	Central Oklahoma	10	0	0	10
Vassar B	McGill E	10	0	0	10
Mississippi State	Texas B	10	0	0	10
CWRU A (UG)	Kenyon B (DII)	10	0	0	10
Michigan A	CWRU C (UG)	10	0	0	10
Michigan State C (UG)	Michigan State A	10	0	0	10
Michigan B	Michigan State B (UG)	10	0	0	10
Ohio State A (UG)	Michigan D (DII)	10	10	0	20
CWRU B (UG)	Ohio State C (DII)	10	0	0	10
Cambridge C	Birmingham	10	0	0	10
Imperial B	Cambridge A	10	0	0	10
Cambridge B	Durham A	10	10	0	20
Warwick A	Cambridge D	10	0	0	10
Manchester	Edinburgh	10	0	0	10
Oxford B	Imperial A	10	0	0	10
LSE B	Bristol B	10	10	0	20
Oxford A	Bristol A	10	10	0	20
Southampton A	Warwick B	10	0	0	10
Durham B	Vanderbilt	10	10	0	20
Bard A	Princeton A	10	0	0	10
Columbia A	Rutgers A	10	10	0	20
Hopkins B	Columbia B	10	0	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	Penn State B	10	10	0	20
Lehigh A	Penn A	10	0	0	10
Penn B	Haverford A	10	0	0	10
Penn State A	Rutgers C	10	10	10	30
Indiana B	Miami	0	0	0	0
Notre Dame	Purdue C	10	0	0	10
UChicago B	Purdue B	10	0	0	10
Purdue D	UChicago D	10	0	0	10
UChicago A	SIUE A	10	10	0	20
UIUC A	WashU B	0	10	10	20
Northwestern A	WashU D	10	0	0	10
NYU A	WUSTL A	10	0	0	10
Oregon State	Texas D	10	0	0	10
Texas A	Missouri	10	0	0	10
Vassar A	Ole Miss	10	0	0	10
UF B	Florida Tech A	10	10	0	20
UF A	Florida Tech B	10	0	10	20
UCF A	UCF B	10	0	0	10
UF C	UF E	10	0	0	10
UF F	Florida State University A	10	0	0	10
A Brandeis Supreme	Amherst A	10	10	0	20
Clark A	Bowdoin A	10	0	0	10
Diamond Brandeis	BU B	10	0	0	10
Harvard A	Carabrandeis	10	0	0	10
Tufts A	Northeastern A	10	0	0	10
Tufts B	MIT A	10	0	0	10
Williams A	Bowdoin B	10	0	0	10
Yale A	Brandeises Brew	10	10	10	30
Yale B	Boston University A	10	0	0	10
Brown A	Yale C	10	10	10	30