Identify the moral perspective at work here:At the supermarket, Vickie just ran her cart into a display of jars with jams and preserves, and now the aisle is full of broken glass and jam. She feels like leaving the store as quickly as possible. Is that an acceptable course of action?No, it isn't, because she has caused product loss that necessitates more work for the employees. So the least she can do is report what she has done and pay for damages.

What will be an ideal response?


Consequentialism (utilitarianism).

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Kant argues that the laws of God are justified

A) because they are from God, who is perfect. B) whenever they agree with our beliefs about right and wrong. C) by the authority of reason. D) because, as Kierkegaard says, they transcend ethics.

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Socrates believed that only ignorance leads to wrongdoing. 2. Socrates says that virtue is not given by money, but from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. 3. Dworkin believed that a life is valuable only if it produces something, whether it be a book or an invention or a work of art. 4. Dworkin believed that the end result is much more important that the means through which people get the end result. 5. In A Man for All Seasons, Sir Thomas More is jailed and executed for heresy and corrupting the youth, in a historical situation bearing a remarkable resemblance to that of Socrates.

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Suppose that the following pair of statements appears in a review of the same work of art. Identify which of the aesthetic principles referred to in the text each statement in the pair appeals to. Then state whether the principles are compatible and thus form the basis for a consistent review, or whether they are incompatible and cannot both be used in a consistent review.a. Art that misleads us about reality is dangerous.b. The great virtue of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novels is that they evoke a desire for a way of life that is extinct-indeed, a kind of life that likely never was.

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If the following argument is an instance of one of the "famous" argument forms, name the form and indicate whether the form is valid or invalid; if the argument is NOT an instance of one of the "famous" forms, simply write "unnamed form." If Sam makes it through Shelob's lair, then Frodo will be saved. If Frodo is saved, then Gollum will lose his precious ring. So, if Sam makes it through Shelob's lair, then Gollum will lose his precious ring.

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