To complete the assignment, you should make use ONLY of Michael Frayn’s play, Copenhagen, in the assigned edition for the course, and the material contained in section 12, ‘The Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number’, of Simon Blackburn’s Being Good. Other sources should not be used. When you quote from the play,or quote or from Blackburn then immediately following your paraphrase or quotation, put, in parentheses, either the name Frayn or Blackburn, as relevant, immediately followed by the page number from which you have drawn the paraphrase or quotation.
Assignment (make sure you answer these EXACT QUESTIONS)
What, according to Blackburn, the greatest happiness of the greatest number? Briefly explain.
In the play Copenhagen, is it true, with respect to the physicists Bohr and Heisenberg, that either of them was ever motivated, in trying to develop an atomic bomb, to work to achieve the greatest happiness for the greatest number? With respect to each of them separately, answer and explain.
With respect to either or both of them, if they were NOT motivated to work for the greatest happiness of the greatest number, what was their alternative motivation in working to develop an atomic bomb? If there was an alternative motivation, was the alternative motivation worse or better, in your view, than trying to achieve the greatest happiness for the greatest number? Explain.