In New Mexico, a group called Compassion & Choices is defending physicians
treating terminal cancer patients in seeking a clarification of that state’s laws
prohibiting assisted suicide.
What will be an ideal response?
The doctors want to be permitted to provide medications
to patients who are terminally ill and mentally competent, so the patient can decide
later to commit suicide. The medications can also be used to lessen the severe pain
of many terminal cancers. If the prescribed drugs can be used for a clearly legal
purpose of alleviating pain, should doctors be held responsible for assisting in a
suicide if the patient uses them for this other purpose?
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You are an administrator in a school system charged with designing a new high school curriculum. You are under pressure, for economic reasons, to include only "essential" subjects in the curriculum. You're aware that most of your colleagues believe that "essential" subjects are limited to math, science, reading, writing, and history-but not art. In light of this, you decide to write a letter, in
the form of an essay to your colleagues, that defends the inclusion of art classes and art appreciation in the curriculum, because of the essential educational value of art. Your essay should include the views of Confucius, Schiller, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, although you are not limited to these points of view. If you've had a personal experience of the educational power of art, share that as well. Be specific about how educational values are linked to aesthetic values Also be specific about what "arts" and "art appreciation" you would include-formal art, and/or popular art? What will be an ideal response?
_____________ and ____________ do not need to numb the powers of appreciation
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
Fa • Ga is an instantiation (by UI) of (x)Fx • Gx.
There is one and only one President of the United States" can best be symbolized (Pxy: x is a president of y; u: the United States) as
A. (?x)(Pxu • (y)(Pyu ? y = x)). B. (x)(y)(Pxu ? ~Pyu). C. (?x)Pxu • (x)(y)((Pxu • Pyu) ? x = y). D. (x)(Pxu • (y)(~y = x ? ~Pyu)).