_______________ 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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The rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights are positive rights, not negative rights
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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
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
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.