Kant reinforced the crucial distinction between reason and what he called "the inclinations" (emotions, moods, and desires), and he diminished emotions (including the moral sentiment) as inessential to morals.

a. true
b. false


Ans: a. true

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Identify any fallacies in the following passage either by naming them or, where they seem not to conform to any of the patterns described in the text, by giving a brief explanation of why the fallacious reasoning is irrelevant to the point at issue.The article "Race and the Death Penalty" is just another liberal diatribe aimed at convincing people that there is racial bias in capital punishment. The whole point of the so-called statistics it mentions is to get people to be against the death penalty.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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Suppose you are talking to a friend and you make a gesture that the friend does not understand. So the friend asks you what you are intending to communicate by that. In this kind of a situation your friend is ________

(a) using an interpretive question to try to learn your purpose (b) using an analytical question to try to learn how to make the same gesture (c) using an inference question to see what you are implying (d) using an evaluative question to indicate disapproval

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Criticize the following claim based on the material from Chapter 3 of the text."Subdeconstructive capitalism implies that narrative is a product of the masses. In a sense, the subject is contextualised into a textual libertarianism that includes culture as a totality."

What will be an ideal response?

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What French town was virtually destroyed during the Allied advance from Normandy despite its population’s sympathy for the Allied Powers and serves as an example of military necessity?

a. St. LĂ´ c. Calais b. St. Louis d. Paris

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