_______________ claimed that people can live decent lives without the imposition of morality upon the culture by a social contract enforced by a Leviathan (king of gov)

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


Answer: Thomas Hobbes

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According to the libertarian view of sexual morality:

a. anything goes in sexual relations b. right and wrong in sexual behavior are determined by social mores c. the morality of sexual behavior is determined by the same principles as the morality of any other behavior d. all kinds of sex are the same

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The historical-critical method in the nineteenth century originated in the West with the study of:

a. the Quran b. the Bible c.Plato's dialogues. d. the Sacred Books of the East

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Hursthouse attempts to develop an objective natural standard for goodness in humans that

is analogous to the standards of goodness for plants and animals. Copp and Sobel object that her project fails, because a. only God can define the goodness of a living thing. b. the basic notion of "goodness" in a plant or animal is nonsense. c. there is no useful analogy to be drawn between humans and other living things. d. there may be several competing standards for natural goodness of a living thing. e. the standards are likely to be in constant flux as our understanding of biology increases.

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