In the context of natural law, the ________ states that an action which causes serious harm may be permissible if that harm is an unintended side effect of bringing about a particular good.
A. principle of reciprocity
B. naturalistic fallacy
C. principle of double effect
D. golden rule
Answer: C
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Basic Analogical Reasoning Connie is thinking about registering for Professor Langley's course in Italian Renaissance history. Connie's friend Lydia took that course a year earlier and got an A. Connie figures that she will get an A, too. How do the following facts bear on Connie's conclusion? Lydia is a history major, but Connie is a biology major
A) Strengthens. B) Has no effect. C) Weakens.
Aristotle argues that right conduct is the mean between ________
a. perfect duty and approximate duty b. excess and deficiency c. moral and intellectual d. matter and form
Some soft determinists agree with determinists that if we knew everything, we could predict a person's actions with certainty (or at least a very high probability)
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
In the context of cultural relativism, when using a mandala to represent a culture's moral community, beings represented on the outermost edge of the mandala are:
A. free and equal members of a moral society. B. approaching apotheosis, or ascendance to godhood. C. believed to have transcended the bindings of the material world. D. considered morally inferior to beings toward the center of the mandala.