The Epicureans and the Stoics agreed that the ____ is the pleasant life.
What will be an ideal response?
good life
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The example about patients who had an extended version of an uncomfortable procedure was used to illustrate...
A. that we are more likely to remember a procedure the longer it takes B. that we selectively notice experiences that confirm our expectations—for example, that the extended procedure is uncomfortable C. that our impression of the last part of an extended event has an outsized influence on our impression of the whole event D. that the ease with which we remember events is influenced by how the question was framed: for instance, how unpleasant was the extended procedure?
Evaluate the following argument in accordance with the criteria discussed in the text.A terrible squeaking noise from my tape recorder got so bad I couldn't stand to listen to my tapes anymore. I was sure the machine had developed a problem-and just a month after the warranty expired, too. So I cleaned the heads, the capstan, and all the moving parts, hoping I could make the noise go away. It remained. Then, just as I had decided I was going to have to take it in for repairs, I played some tapes belonging to a friend of mine, and the squeak wasn't there. So the problem is with my tapes, not my machine. I'm not sure I like that any better, since I've got dozens of them.
What will be an ideal response?
Our knowledge of the earliest period of Church history comes from the biblical book
a. Acts of the Apostles. b. Paul’s Letter to the Romans. c. the Gospel of Mark. d. Revelation.
What is the difference between descriptive ethics and normative ethics?
What is the danger with getting confused between them?