Which of the following is true about affirmative action?
A. Qualified women and minority members cannot be given preference on the basis of sex or race.
B. Affirmative action justifies hiring unqualified women or minority members in preference to men.
C. Preferential hiring is a mandatory way of making adequate progress toward achieving affirmative-action goals.
D. Qualified women and minority members can morally be given preference in order to achieve affirmative action goals.
D
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Which of the following moral theories holds that when allocating limited supplies of goods, such as donor organs, considerations such as talent, intelligence, age, and social worth are morally irrelevant?
a) Utilitarian b) Kantian c) Paternalism d) Rawlsian
Why is the religion that follows the revelations of Muhammad called Islam?
a. It calls for victory over evil. b. It is named after his uncle. c. It is named after God. d. It calls for submission to God.
Descartes rejected methodic doubt
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
In the reading selection from Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes says there are many sense experiences “as to which we cannot reasonably have any doubt. . . . For example, there is the fact that I am here, seated by the fire.” Concerning these vivid sense experiences, Descartes says that
a. it is foolish to doubt them. b. I can’t have total certainty about them because I could be dreaming. c. it doesn’t matter if my experiences are true or not, as long as they are pleasant. d. since I have five senses, they all couldn’t be wrong.