Efficiency as a __________ ideal is about seeking mutually advantageous
interactions that make people better off without making anyone worse off.
a. normative
b. objective
c. subjective
d. personal
A
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Slote's Hypnotized Patient thought experiment is intended to show that
A. there must be more to acting freely than acting on second-order volitions with which you decisively identify. B. to act freely is to act on second-order volitions with which you decisively identify. C. some actions are not free. D. it's not possible to decisively identify with one's second-order volitions.
According to Epictetus, the Will has more value than:
a. the senses. b. gifts such as eloquence. c. reason. d. all of these answers. e. none of these answers.
"Today it's considered impossible that there can be out-of-body experiences, whereby our spirits actually leave our bodies
But compare other things that were once considered impossible such as that the sound of the human voice could be transmitted through the air without wires, and that humans would walk on the moon. All of these later turned out to be true. So it will turn out to be true that there are out-of-body experiences" commits the fallacy of A) hasty generalization B) weak analogy C) false cause D) appeal to ignorance E) appeal to unqualified authority
“But though the benefits of this life may be much furthered by mutual help; since yet those may be better attained to by dominion, than by the society of others, I hope no body will doubt, but that men would much more greedily be carried by nature, if all fear were removed, to obtain dominion, than to gain society.” What is Hobbes’ main argument in this passage?
a. Most people would prefer to achieve comfortable self- preservation through entering into collaborative associations b. The life of a tyrant is preferable to that of a mere citizen c. The life of a citizen is preferable to that of a greedy tyrant d. Without law and order, life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.”