Hursthouse attempts to develop an objective natural standard for goodness in humans that
is analogous to the standards of goodness for plants and animals. Copp and Sobel object
that her project fails, because
a. only God can define the goodness of a living thing.
b. the basic notion of "goodness" in a plant or animal is nonsense.
c. there is no useful analogy to be drawn between humans and other living things.
d. there may be several competing standards for natural goodness of a living thing.
e. the standards are likely to be in constant flux as our understanding of biology
increases.
d
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a. Alienating workers from their own productive work b. Alienating workers from themselves c. Alienating workers by denying them control d. Alienating workers from the products of their labor
One implication of the Heisenberg principle of uncertainty is that
A) ?it is impossible to predict future events on a subatomic level. B) ?it is possible to predict the future, but only assuming human beings have an immaterial soul. C) ?future events cannot be predicted.. D) ?causaticausation is a fiction. on is a fiction.
Which of the following is the best description of contingent statement in the Logic of Statements? "A grammatically correct expression ___________________
(a) used to assert that if an antecedent statement is true, then a consequent statement is true (b) that turns out to be false under every possible assignment of truth values to its component simple statements (c) that turns out to be true under at least one possible assignment of truth values to its component simple statements and false under another possible assignment of truth values to its component simple statements (d) that turns out to be true under every possible assignment of truth values to its component simple statements
The Buddhist conception of the self is the source of the way the self is understood in Western philosophy
A. True B. False