Due to the rising price of oil, many urge that we permit drilling in currently pristine and
undeveloped wilderness areas, including natural habitat in Alaska.
What will be an ideal response?
Use the theories in
this chapter to develop an argument in support of this drilling. Now use the theories in
this chapter to criticize your argument.
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Analyze the ethical issues in the continued consumption of shark fin soup, including the
respect for cultural practices, the economic situation of shark fishermen, and the rights, if any, of the sharks and other animals dependent on them.
What will be an ideal response?You and your visually-impaired mother, whom you love dearly, are attending a lecture by a scientist who is conducting groundbreaking research on a vaccine for AIDS when a fire breaks out in the lecture hall. A beam falls, trapping your mother, her seeing eye dog, and the scientist. You have time to save only one of them. A care ethicist would most likely advise you to:
A. save your mother; your relationship with her creates a special obligation to her. B. save the dog; to give preferential treatment to humans in this case is speciesist. C. save the scientist; she is more likely to benefit society through her research. D. apply the doctrine of the mean and take each of them partway out of the building.
If you have a well-established theory which says that change does not occur in the heavenly regions (regions of the sky more distant from the Earth than the moon), you will rightly discount reports of observers on a particular occasion who claim to have observed a new star to appear where there was no star before, or to have observed a comet pass through those regions (as opposed to being a mere sublunary phenomenon). (Richard Swinburne, Revelation: From Metaphor to Analogy)This statement is made up of a(n) ________ and a(n) ________.
A. argument; conclusion: You will rightly discount reports of observers on a particular occasion who claim to have observed a new star to appear where there was no star before, or to have observed a comet pass through those regions (as opposed to being a mere sublunary phenomenon) B. nonargument; conditional statement C. nonargument; unsupported assertion D. nonargument; illustration
A criticism the text made of Bentham’s philosophy was that
a. there are other values than pleasure. b. it is difficult to measure and compare different types of pleasure. c. it would force us to conclude that a happy pig is in a higher moral state than a slightly dissatisfied Socrates. d. all of the above