GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
KOHLBERG
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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What is the just thing to do given all the circumstances? What will bring the most good to the largest number of people?
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How high is up? How did we get here?
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none of these
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Why is there air? What is above the sky?
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Detailed explanation-1: -For example, society may decide that the “greatest good for the greatest number” includes the entire biosphere, not merely human needs; and the current buzzword “sustainability” is just another way of talking about “the long run."
Detailed explanation-2: -In the Fragment Bentham stated the “fundamental axiom” that “it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong”, and “the obligation to minister to general happiness, was an obligation paramount to and inclusive of every other” (1776 [1977, 393, 440n]).
Detailed explanation-3: -Definition. The greatest happiness principle is a moral tenet, which holds that the best thing to do is what contributes to the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people.