Who described the “accordion effect”?

a. Rawls c. Kant
b. Powers d. Feinberg


ANS: D
Joel Feinberg described the accordion effect.

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After Bill helped the elderly gentleman with his bags, he wondered if he wasn't simply being selfish, since he felt good afterwards about what he did. Psychological egoism would be true of Bill's actions only if

A) Bill had the desire to help only because helping made Bill feel good. B) Bill felt good after helping. C) by not acting Bill's conscience would have bothered him later. D) Bill acted out of his own desire to help.

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Aristotle writes, "It makes no small difference, then, whether we form habits of one kind or of another from our very youth; it makes a very great difference, or rather all the difference... ." By this he means

A) becoming virtuous has nothing to do with practice. B) virtues are acquired by practice. C) habits are always good. D) there is no difference between intellectual and moral virtues.

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Who held that all qualities were secondary qualities?

A) Berkeley B) Locke C) Descartes D) Aristotle

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Why are the Vedas so highly revered in Hindu belief?

a. They were written by the sage Valmiki. b. They are the oldest scriptures in the tradition. c. They contain the stories of Vishnu. d. They are thought to transcend human time.

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