John Stuart Mill believed which of the following:

A. It is better to be a satisfied pig than to be Socrates and be dissatisfied.
B. Thinking that happiness is the only thing that is intrinsically valuable is a doctrine for swine (pigs).
C. We must maximize both the quantity and quality of pleasures.


Ans: C. We must maximize both the quantity and quality of pleasures.

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What will be an ideal response?

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Glaucon, with his hypothesis of the two rings in the text by Plato, points to the fact that

A. any man who has two rings ought to give one of them to a needy person. B. if an invisibility ring was given to a just man and another to an unjust man, the just man will do good deeds with it and the unjust man will do bad deeds. C. if an invisibility ring was given to a just man and another to an unjust man, the just man will do bad deeds and the bad man will do good deeds. D. if an invisibility ring was given to a just man and another to an unjust man, the just man and the unjust man will both behave selfishly.

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What is the name of the form of Greek spoken by Alexander's soldiers that became so widespread that the Jews of Alexandria translated the Hebrew Bible into it and that early Christian churches produced their own Scripture, the New Testament, in it?

A. koin? B. Aramaic C. diaspora D. Hellene

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