According to Val Plumwood, how does the rationalistic framework view the human self?

What will be an ideal response?


As autonomous, separate, and egoistic.

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The idea that a dominant religion has simply been a successful "master narrative" is an argument made by __________ scholars

a. Marxist b. Conservative c. 19th-century d. Postmodern

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Hume writes, "When I see, for instance, a Billiard-ball moving in a straight line towards another; even suppose motion in the second ball should by accident be suggested to me, as the result of their contact or impulse; may I not conceive, that a hundred different events might as well follow from that cause? May not both these balls remain at absolute rest? May not the first ball return in a

straight line, or leap off from the second in any line or direction? All these suppositions are consistent and conceivable." Hume goes on to argue that ____. A) a priori reasoning will never be able to show us any foundation for favoring one of these possibilities to another. B) a priori reasoning will be able to show us a foundation for favoring one of these possibilities to another. C) we must suppose that the connection between cause and effect consists of a perceived necessity. D) only God knows what the second Billiard-ball will do after being struck by the first.

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Which of the following is a main theme in the epistle of Jude?

a. The identity of God's people as a holy nation and a royal priesthood b. The false teachers' immorality and rejection of authority c. Believers must avoid emperor-worship d. The imminent Second Coming of Christ

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What did Descartes hope to use to establish certainty?

a. God b. Religion c. Skepticism d. Empiricism

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