Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The "Veneer Theory" of human nature suggests that self-love is the main cause of moral judgment.
2. Thomas Hobbes expressed the opinion that justice is an invention based on self-preservation.
3. David Hume concluded: Before the creation of society, in the “state of nature,” where people live in a perpetual state of war against one another, life is “nasty, brutish, and short,” and no rules apply except that of self-preservation.
4. Glaucon argued that only "bad" or irrational men are selfish deep down inside.
5. Ayn Rand claims that it is acceptable, for selfish reasons, to save a drowning person under certain circumstances.


1. False
2. True
3. False
4. False
5. True

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