The following is an example of rule utilitarianism (RU): "if the practice of lying is overall bad for the world in cases where one is tempted to lie, then one ought not to lie now, even if in this case to lie would actually bring about better consequences."
a. true
b. false
Answer: a. true
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a. “Benign aggression” is biologically adaptive and instinctive in animals and people. b. Culture exists for people, not people for culture; we will more and more “make culture” as active, reflective agents rather than be made by it as empty, reactive puppets. c. Some social scientists have observed that when external and internal restrictions are removed and a person feels free to move in any direction, the person moves toward “full functioning.” d. Human greed and violence of the regimes that followed the French and Russian revolutions equated or exceeded that of the old regimes they replaced.
According to William G. McAdoo, who is it impossible to defeat in argument?
A) A sophist B) An intelligent man C) A philosopher D) An ignorant man
Hegel paints a dynamic and complex picture of God in which we humans are
A) ?the messengers of God, like angels. B) ?the primary expressions of spirit, which acts through us and even uses us for its own purposes. C) ?caught between equally strong forces of good and evil. D) ?saved by an absolutely transcendent God.