The drowning child scenario questions
a) whether we can ever really make a difference.
b) whether making a difference can be justifiably limited to one's own nation.
c) whether we have any obligation to make a difference in the lives of the poor.
d) whether we have an obligation outside our own nation.
b) whether making a difference can be justifiably limited to one's own nation.
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Basic Analogical Reasoning Morgan needs a new set of tires for her car, and she wants tires that will last for 50,000 miles. Her friend Ashley bought a set of Goodmonth XK-1 tires four years ago, and those tires lasted 50,000 miles. Morgan concludes that if she buys Goodmonth XK-1 tires for her own car, those tires will last for 50,000 miles. How do the following facts bear on Morgan's
conclusion? Morgan drives aggressively, but Ashley drives conservatively. A) Strengthens. B) Weakens. C) Has no effect.
One objection to Utilitarianism that Mill acknowledges is that the theory
requires too much of us—that it requires that we place the general happiness of society on par with our own happiness.
a. True b. False
The law of non-contradiction says that
A. nothing can have a property and lack it at the same time. B. no one can contradict the word of God. C. it's against the law to contradict yourself. D. some things are non-contradictory.
Putnam points out an important distinction in Dewey's work between
a. the mental and the physical. b. the objective and the esthetic. c. dreams and reality. d. the valued and the valuable. e. the empirical and the transcendent.