What relevance does the morality of abortion have to whether or not there should be laws regulating abortion?
What will be an ideal response?
Unless the two spheres of morality and the law are coincident, it does not necessarily follow that if something is morally wrong it ought to be legally prohibited and if something is morally permissible the law ought to have nothing to do with it or even encourage it.
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Darwin claimed that the most distinctive characters of a man were acquired
through _______________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).According to Kant, happiness is
a) the supreme principle of morality. b) not a good at all. c) a conditional good. d) a categorical imperative.
The fact that "someone will always be unhappy" with decisions made concerning social or legal issues means
A) it is impossible to attain a just state. B) we may need to determine just policies on grounds other than happiness. C) justice has nothing to do with happiness. D) humans are not, at heart, social creatures.
According to Epicurus, atoms move:
a. continuously, but only in a straight line. b. not at all. c. continuously, but only recoiling from other atoms. d. continuously, but falling. e. continuously, and also in a straight line, or recoiling, or falling, or swerving.