For Plato and his contemporaries, the central ethical question was which of the following?
A. How can one achieve the good life?
B. How can we overcome temptation?
C. How can religion and morality be reconciled?
D. How can we come to know our duties?
E. What rights does every person possess?
Answer: A
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What will be an ideal response?
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A. any suffering we experience in this life will be more than compensated in an afterlife. B. there is much more evil in the world than is needed to achieve any greater good. C. there is no evil in the world; it is an illusion. D. evil is the absence of good.
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).