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not inflicting harm on people falls under the priniple of
T/F: john rawls believes that a just society cannot permit any social or economic inequalities
"it is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. and if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. the other party to the comparison knows both sides."
identify the following argument form:1. if p, then q;2. p; therefore,3. q
T/F: aristotle defends cultural relativism
"nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a Good Will."
"there are some risks - even very great ones - which a person is entitled to take with his life."
immanuel kant's second formulation of the categorical imperative says to treat humanity as
T/F: immanuel kant believes we should judge the rightness or wrongness of an action by its possible consequences
john raws believes social and economic inequalities should be arranged so they
according to immanuel kant, the necessity of acting from pure respect for the practical law is what constitutes
"To support that life has ... no higher end than pleasure ... they designate as utterly mean and groveling; as a doctrine worthy only of swine ..."
T/F: elizabeth bovia's court cases in the 1980s focused on her desire to use medicinal marijuana
"a quick, breezy reading of utilitarian and Kantian writings will suggest the images, respectively, of the Loving Saint and the Rational Saint."a. John Stuart Millb. Immanuel Kantc. Aristotled. Nell Noddingse. none of the above
"it is clear, I think, that the best moral theory has to be a cooperative product of women and men, has to harmonize justice and care."a. John Stuart Millb. Immanuel Kantc. Aristotled. Nell Noddingse. none of the above
the first formulation of the categorical imperative is
T/F: in Plato's Euthyphro, socrates asks whether actions are morally right because God commands them or whether God commands them because they are morally right
T/F: natural law theory is most closely associated with john stuart mill
"patrick says abortion is immoral, but Patrick is Roman Catholic, so abortion must be moral." this argument is
aristotle calls the disposition with regard to pleasantness in giving amusement