In defining pornography, a key element of the definition proposed by Dworkin (and
Catharine MacKinnon) is that in pornography
a. there is no redeeming social or literary value.
b. sexual gratification is presented as an end in itself.
c. women are treated as subordinate objects.
d. its dimensions can only be defined by local community standards.
e. sex is treated as a commodity and reduced to financial terms.
c
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.Which of the following is true of Singer's "A Piece of Advice"?
A. It is an account of how irredeemable and selfish human beings can get. B. It is an account of how good habits can help a temperamental person turn into a nice person. C. It is an account of how you will ultimately be made to pay for your bad deeds by those who bore the brunt of it. D. It is an account of how it sometimes takes evil deeds to achieve success in life.
Which of the following does not primarily depend upon ideological reasoning?
(a) Government entitlement programs stimulate economic growth. So we need to fund the Small Business Administration's program that connects retired executives as advisors to the owners of mom-and-pop businesses. (b) Government entitlement programs are colossal wastes of taxpayer fund. So we need to discontinue the practice of permitting ranchers to graze their cattle on Federal land. (c) When you use ideological reasoning as foundation for arguments it can be like trying to build a house on a sand dune. (d) "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is far better than not to think at all," argued the respected scholar Hypatia of Alexandria more than fifteen hundred years ago.
For Kierkegaard, gaining self knowledge is a case in which
a. the result depends on a certain process. b. the process has nothing to do with the results. c. other people can tell me what I need to know. d. objectively analyzing all the facts is the best method.