If a bank robber puts a gun to a bank teller's head and tells him to hand over the money in the cash drawer, which of the following excusing conditions would limit the teller's moral responsibility?
A. lack of control
B. external coercion
C. the absence of alternatives
D. internal coercion
B
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Transcendental illusions are based on:
1. observation without the use of reason. 2. the use of reason without observation. 3. ignorance and stupidity. 4. wish fulfillment.
According to Skillen, the basic ideological assumption in Western ideological morality is
that a. humans are naturally corrupt and selfish, and moral rules must overcome such selfishness. b. morality is universal, and there must be a single cross-cultural morality that governs all peoples. c. morality is divinely given and humans requires miraculous divine intervention in order to follow its dictates. d. acting morally is easy and natural to social animals such as humans. e. morality cannot be rationally justified.
The sociologist Tanya Maria Golash-Boza says that race is
a. a social construction. b. an inevitable factor in hiring decisions. c. a biological category. d. a natural phenomenon.
Other names for direct realism are
a. naive realism and commonsense realism. b. impressionism and sensory realism. c. mediated empiricism and natural realism. d. super-realism and first-order realism.