Paley's teleological argument for God compares objects in the natural world to this object. (Don't be late!)

Egoism is this type of moral theory, since it defines moral right and wrong in terms of the effects of the action.

Jeremy Bentham believed that this was the ultimate human good. What a hedonist!

Between "acting from duty" and "acting according to duty", this phrase describes a good act that is performed from the wrong (e.g., selfish) motive.

In ethics, something that tries to give a general account of what makes an act morally right or wrong is called this.

St. Anselm says that existence in reality is greater than this type of existence.

Ethical egoism defines a morally right act as the act that benefits this person. Don't get too big headed!

Utilitarianism is this type of moral theory because it defines the morally right act in terms of the consequences of the act.

"Consequences of an act, be damned!"... This is what is matters for Kant when judging the moral worth of an act.

According to this philosopher, "the unexamined life is not worth living".

According to Charles Darwin, evolution is driven forward by this mechanism.

According to Thomas Hobbes, this pre-political state (with no laws or institutions) is described as "nasty, brutish, and short".

The morally right act is the act the generates the greatest pleasure/happiness for the greatest number. At least, so says this principle of morality.

Kant's supreme principle of morality! The principle we respect when we act from duty! A principle that applies to ALL human beings! All three of these describe what Kant refers to as this.

When explaining events such as climate, eclipses, and planetary orbits, the pre-Socratics differed from their "primitive" predecessors in searching for these kind of explanations for said events.

Naturalism is the philosophical view that all events and processes in the world can, in principle, be explained in terms of what?

Human beings have a duty to pursue their good! That is why they should never act selflessly, says this argument for ethical egoism.

According to John Stuart Mill, it is better to be a human being unsatisfied than this animal satisfied. That's all folks!

"If I desire to pass the class, I ought to do my homework" is an example of this type of imperative.

Although both hypothetical and categorical imperatives, when put into words, contain the phrase "I ought to...", this added phrase differentiates imperatives of the hypothetical kind.

According to Saint Anselm, what could be concluded about God if He did not exist in reality?

The fact that humans CAN only act selfishly does not support ethical egoism unless we add in this premise widely accepted by ethicists. (I told you, I don't have an obligation to fast for two weeks to save food!)

According to a popular objection to utilitarianism, utilitarianism fails to give due regard to these. Our founding fathers described them as "unalienable".

Kant's second formulation of the categorical imperative states that must always treat all persons in this way. That means no killing, lying, or using people.

True or false. Bruce Russell, in his article on the problem of evil, argues that we can be absolutely certain that gratuitous evil exists.