According to Bedau, an adequate cost/benefit analysis of the death penalty:
a. would be irrelevant to the morality of capital punishment.
b. would be impossible, given all the factors that must be taken into account.
c. might show that the costs outweigh the benefits.
d. is unlikely to be done in the near future.
c.
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a. Argument b. Non-argument c. Explanation
A __________ is a divide related to authority
a. Division b. Heresy c. Schism d. Sect
What is the difference between an ideal situation and an actual situation in assessing the universalizability of the categorical imperative?
What will be an ideal response?
One of the goals of the logical positivists was
a. developing a logically rigorous metaphysics. b. showing that scientific knowledge is unreliable. c. developing a criterion of linguistic meaning. d. showing that ethical judgments had positive, logical content.