Identify the moral perspective at work here:Taffy is a university lab chimpanzee; the university has lost its animal research grant and has to decide what to do with Taffy.Taffy is not a rational being, and the university has no duty to treat her as anything but a mere means to an end. They can sell her or put her to sleep. If anybody cares enough for her to take care of her, that will be that person's choice.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


Duty theory.

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The British Empiricists and Continental Rationalists thought philosophers could combine the study of human nature and the study of cosmology into a single philosophical project

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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a. Inductive b. Deductive

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