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What is the idea/principle of utility in utilitarianism?Explain the difference between act and rule utilitarianism. Give an example of each as part of your explanation.*** Remember that copying/pasting from any course materials (other than your own words in the Prep Guide), the internet, or using generative AI like ChatGPT to help “write” or “proofread” or “improve” your answer violates my Academic Integrity policy. Note that generative AI is now incorporated into many popular writing and translating platforms (e.g. Grammarly, Quillbot, Google Translate, DeepL, etc.), so if you’re using those platforms, you’re using generative AI in violation of my policy. USE YOUR OWN WORDS or, if you are unable to do that, properly quote/informally cite them as I discuss in the Academic Integrity section of the Syllabus *** 

A significant criticism of Utilitarianism is that it places too much emphasis upon individual rights.

For Kant, one’s motive is  _______ in determining whether an act was ethical.

An “act consequentialist”:

Immanuel Kant believed that we should rely upon society, government, and religious leaders to guide us to what our moral decisions should be.

A spring-loaded dart gun is used to shoot a dart straight up into the air, and the dart reaches a maximum height of 24 meters above its point of release. The same dart is shot up a second time from the same gun, but this time the spring is compressed only half as far (compared to the first shot). How far up does the dart go this time? (Neglect friction and assume the spring is ideal and massless.)

A traveler pulls on a suitcase strap at an angle 36° above the horizontal. If 825 J of work are done by the strap while moving the suitcase a horizontal distance of 12 m, what is the tension in the strap? 

Which of the following proposed an ethical theory that could be expressed as follows: “Act only according to the maxim by which you can at the same time believe that it should become a universal law”?

Immanuel Kant focused on the outcome of an act, not on whether it was considered moral or immoral.

According to the Watching Assignments, Utilitarianism constitutes the sum of Value Theory and the Theory of Right Action.