The French thinker who recognized extraordinary structural similarities in the stories told by the tribal peoples of the Americas is
A. Jacques Derrida.
B. Jean-Paul Sartre.
C. Claude Lévi-Strauss.
D. Michel Foucault.
Answer: C
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One objection that (Battin notes) is sometimes made to the Dutch practice of physicianassisted suicide is that it
a. is available only to wealthy patients. b. violates the Hippocratic oath. c. is a very expensive process that uses too much of the Dutch medical budget. d. is available only in urban centers, and not to rural patients. e. is often excessively painful.
Aristotle rejected _________________ and yet, his philosophy also involved a "reaching beyond," not beyond sensible experience but beyond the actual state of things
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
The debate between Peter Damian and Lafranc matters to Kessler because…
a. being able to comprehend the nature of God is the primary objective of religious studies. b. it gives us insight into the nature of asceticism, allowing us to consider whether or not such practices lead to enlightened views of reality or reductive and simplistic ones. c. it highlights the historical development of omniscience in Western thought, indicating its origins in Eastern thought. d. it allows us to see how debates about God and the limits of the reason might resemble but also be very different from Daoist conceptions of the infinite or apophasis.
Chris makes this argument to himself
"Everybody I know has at least one tattoo, most of my friends have three or four, but I have only one. So, it's about time that I get another tattoo." By making this argument Chris is actually engaging in __________. (a) an appeal to emotion fallacy (b) a straw man fallacy (c) circular reasoning. (d) the bandwagon fallacy (e) an ad hominem attack