Alasdair MacIntyre argues that social context and tradition are irrelevant to defining moral obligation



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Identify a true statement about the Islamic dietary law.

a. It allows Muslims to eat haram foods. b. It permits Muslims to drink wine in moderation. c. It forbids Muslims from eating any form of animal meat. d. It prohibits Muslims from consuming food cooked with alcohol.

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The law precisely defines the concept of a trade secret, just as it does patents and copyrights

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What is it like to be a bat? Is there any way that you can know what it feels like to be a bat, or what a bat's experience feels like to the bat? If not, how much can you know, or how much can you empathize with, a bat or, in fact, any other living thing, including other human beings? Alternatively, supposing that you were an intelligent bat, how could you communicate your experience to humans?

If a bat could talk, would we (humans) be able to understand it? Construct an argument for your own viewpoint. Develop at least two objections or counterarguments to your viewpoint and answer them. You can draw freely on resources in the chapter, but you're not limited to them. (You may want to consult David Foster Wallace's essay "Consider the Lobster," for example.) For "bat," you may substitute another name of a kind of being (including a human being), with permission from your professor. What will be an ideal response?

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Let the domain of interpretation be the set of all people; let S denote the class of scholars, A denote the class of athletes, and ...C__denote the binary relationship ...is more competitive than ___. The correct symbolization of "Some people are both scholars and athletes" is

a. (?x)(Sx ?> Ax) b. (x)(Sx ?> Ax) c. (?x)(Sx . Ax) d. (x)(Sx . Ax)

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