Kant claims that the relationship between moral virtue, happiness, and the afterlife is

a. the goal of happiness in the afterlife is the only reasonable motive for being virtuous.
b. justice demands that there be a God to reward moral virtue with happiness in the afterlife.
c. moral virtue inevitably brings happiness in this life and enables us to attain the afterlife.
d. moral virtue is unrelated to both happiness and the afterlife.


b. justice demands that there be a God to reward moral virtue with happiness in the afterlife.

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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INSTRUCTIONS: In each problem below you are given a statement, its truth value in parentheses, and an operation/relation to be performed on that statement. You must identify the new statement and the truth value of the new statement. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint and assume that 'A' and 'B' denote things that actually exist. Some non-A are not B. (F) Subcontrary

A) No non-A are B. (F) B) Some non-A are B. (T) C) Some A are B. (T) D) Some A are B. (Und.) E) Some non-A are B. (Und.)

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Camenisch considers the debate over whether "corporations should devote any of their profits to philanthropic, educational and other sorts of humanitarian undertakings." What is his purpose in mentioning this idea?

(A) To provide another illustration of a type of issue that fails to address ethical questions about the "central and essential activity of business" (B) To show that businesses do not have such duties (C) To show that these kinds of moral obligations get at the "central and essential activity of business" (D)To show that businesses do, in fact, have such duties

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Event 2B Given the following event: Given an urn containing 2 green, 3 white, and 4 red balls. Two balls are drawn and the first ball is not replaced before the second is drawn. Given Event 2B, what is the probability that the first ball is white and the second is red?

A) 2/3 B) 7/17 C) 4/27 D) 1/6 E) 2/9

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