Baier agrees with Hobbes that:
a. moral reasons trump self-interested reasons in all times.
b. moral reasons trump self-interested reasons in all places.
c. moral reasons trump self-interested reasons only in social conditions.
d. moral reasons never trump self-interested reasons.
e. none of these choices.
c
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Al-Ghazali writes, "The proof of the possibility of there being prophecy and the proof that there has been prophecy is that there is knowledge in the world the attainment of which by reason is inconceivable." According to al-Ghazali, this argument shows that
A) it is possible for there to be a way of apprehending things that are not apprehended by the intellect. B) it is possible to know things that can be known by the intellect alone. C) the human intellect, unaided by Divine inspiration, can know everything there is to know. D) it is not possible to know anything beyond the intellect.
Many business analysts feel the best way to evaluate the ethics of a business decision is to analyze social costs and compare them to
a. those affected by the decision. b. the cost of consequences. c. social benefits. d. the greatest net benefits.
Which of the following believes there would ideally be
no state at all?
a. Natural law theory b. Natural rights theory c. Anarchism d. Totalitarianism
Ethical pluralism and multiculturalism differ in the following ways except for
a. it accepts the legitimacy of cross-cultural judgments. b. it accepts that ethical judgment go both ways, toward one’s own as well as the other’s culture. c. it claims that the differences among cultures are trivial d. it is judgmenta