Called People of the Book under Muslim rule, Jews and Christians often were required to pay
a special tax and were barred from military service.
True
False
True
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Which of the following would be a definition for the "invisible hand" ?
a. corporations are like an invisible hand that guide self-interested people to create good outcomes, without the need for any special ethical motives and without the need for individuals to intend this result. b. governments are like an invisible hand that guide self-interested people to create good outcomes, without the need for any special ethical motives and without the need for individuals to intend this result. c. markets are like an invisible hand that guide self-interested people to create good outcomes, without the need for any special ethical motives and without the need for individuals to intend this result. d. employers are like an invisible hand that guide self-interested people to create good outcomes, without the need for any special ethical motives and without the need for individuals to intend this result.
Companies should look at a code of ethics as more than just window dressing with more than just a vagueness that is
so general it lacks substance.
a. True b. False
Which of the following is a Rawlsian argument against discrimination?
A. Since the least advantaged in a society would be better off in a nondiscriminatory society than in one that discriminates, the rational person would see that nondiscrimination is morally preferable. B. People are treated as members of class with a certain characteristic, not as persons. They are not ends in themselves, but because of that characteristic, they are denied equal treatment and respect. C. The dominant class has a desire to maintain its superiority and its class prerogatives. D. Systematic discrimination produces a class of people who are arguably treated unjustly. Other groups in the society will also have cause to worry about whether they will be the next group to be discriminated against. On the whole, more harm than good is done.
Being-for-itself is:
1. non-human. 2. non-free. 3. responsible for its actions. 4. non-conscious.