Who said that “what the public wants is not to be sick”?

If a writer or speaker is appealing to our sense of humor, we can be certain that they are not giving an argument. True False

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

One criticism of Virtue Ethics of Kant’s ethical theory is

a. Kant is too religious b. Kant is too antireligious c. For Kant natural goodness is irrelevant d. Kant did not live out his ethics.

William Paley’s argument seeks to show that

a. at each and every moment, the universe requires a divine cause to sustain it in its continued existence. b. the universe is similar to a human artifact in that it is a mechanism that requires a designer. c. God has revealed his moral laws in physical nature. d. the universe is infinite and therefore requires an infinite cause.

This group makes the assumption that academic theoretical discourse has a privileged truth-telling function and they look to the experience of what goes on when we use ethical language

a. Postmodernists b. Theists c. Modernists d. Metaethicists