The moral value of an action resides, according to Kant, in
A) the results of an action.
B) the desires that people have to please other people.
C) a material principle of will.
D) a formal principle of will.
D
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In a formal deduction every line is
a. validly deduced from the one above b. a premise c. a premise or validly deduced from lines above d. validly deduced according to the rules of inference
What is the moral issue raised in the film Extreme Measures?
A. Whether it is morally acceptable to sacrifice a few homeless people in order to advance the research in spinal cord injuries B. Whether it is morally acceptable to falsify medical research in order to gain influence for the greater good C. Whether it is morally acceptable to transplant animal organs into human beings without informing the human subjects D. Whether it is morally acceptable to perform cloning of humans
Reiman concedes that capital punishment is a just punishment for murder;
however, he argues that simply because something is deserved, it does not follow that it should be done.
a. True b. False
By saying that social contract theory is a doctrine of popular sovereignty, we mean that the:
A. social contract remains in force only so long as a majority of citizens approve of it. B. leader of the state must be popularly elected. C. leader of the state must be unanimously elected. D. the sovereign consists of the people as a whole. E. None of the above