"Active euthanasia" can be classified as which of the following?
a) a passive act of not taking steps to prolong life
b) withdrawing the feeding tube of a person in a persistent vegetative state
c) a deliberate act via a definite action that results in killing someone (including oneself)
d) all of these choices
c) a deliberate act via a definite action that results in killing someone (including oneself)
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By pointing out that the perception of intense heat is identical to intense pain, Berkeley tries to convince us that
a. there really is no such thing as heat. b. heat does not exist outside of the mind. c. our sense experience deceives us. d. too much of a good thing can be bad.
Advocates of a "naturalistic ethic" believe that penguins are important only because people like them
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Who was the philosopher who condemned usury?
A. Thomas Aquinas B. Reinhold Niebuhr C. Adam Smith D. Immanuel Kant E. G. W. F. Hegel
According to Kant, the first form of the Categorical Imperative is which of the following?
A. Act so that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of another, always as an end and never as a means only. B. Act only in that way that you would want another to act toward you. C. Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law D. Act only so that the will through its maxims could regard itself at the same time as universally lawgiving.