According to Taylor, wild living things deserve moral consideration because:

a, they have interests
b. they are members of Earth's community of life.
c. they have some level of consciousness.
d. they are born free and live free


b

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The ______ reforms occurred in 645 C.E., bringing Shinto under closer government control

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

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Tolstoy opposed:

A. elitism in art. B. the expression of religious feeling in art. C. folk art. D. the application of objective criteria in judging art. E. All of the above

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Explain the notion of taboo. Describe two specific religion-based examples, and speculate on how or why each arose.

What will be an ideal response?

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Cultural relativists rejected social Darwinism because, unlike social Darwinists, they believed that:

A. there are significant differences between Western and non-Western cultures. B. the fact that a culture believes something is morally right does not imply that it is morally right. C. Darwin's theory of evolution does not imply that primitive cultures are less morally evolved. D. Darwin's theory of evolution is false.

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