According to Alasdair MacIntyre, morality should focus more on the question of

What will be an ideal response?


which character traits promote human flourishing rather than on questions about which principles of right conduct are the correct ones.

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Suppose that a father who never participated in raising his daughter comes forward after she turns 18, apologizes for his neglect, and tries to mend his relationship with her. Do you think English would have argued that the daughter has a duty to at least give him a chance at a relationship?

What will be an ideal response?

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What doctrine did Augustine think was worthy only of swine?

a. Platonism b. Stoicism c. Epicureanism d. Christianity

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The statement "Vera is not a Republican, and Cal is not a Democrat" is correctly symbolized as ~(p & q).

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

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The intentional violation of the legal rights of workers in the interest of economic

efficiency is:

a. socialism b. necessary to compete in the global economy c. fundamentally incompatible with the duty to respect workers d. tolerated under Kantian approaches to ethics

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