Which of the following best captures the point of Reiman’s paper?
a. The death penalty is a necessary evil.
b. The death penalty is wrong because it is disproportionately inflicted on
minorities.
c. The “eye for an eye” justification is mistaken because an eye for an eye leaves
the whole world blind.
d. From the fact that something is deserved, it does not follow automatically
that it should be done.
ANS: D
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a. deontological ethics. b. consequentialist ethics. c. divine command theory. d. virtue ethics.
Which of the following is a correct application of the equivalence rule distribution
A. A ? (B ? C) ? (A ? B) ? (A ? C) B. A ? (B • C) ? (A ? B) • (A ? C) C. A ? (B • C) ? (A • B) ? (C • B) D. (A ? B) • C ? (A • B) v (B • C)
Around 1700, a movement within Shinto emphasized that the Japanese people:
a. were the soldiers of the gods. b. must not worship idols. c. were the descendants of the gods. d. must practice Buddhism.
Whose book was first published under the title From Primitives to Zen?
a. Van der Leeuw’s c. Lessa’s b. Vogt’s d. Eliade’s