That the motive for all actions is based on self-interest is called this?

A. Relativism
B. Power ethics
C. Psychological egoism
D. Duty


Answer: Psychological egoism

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

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INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. Senator Carter, I'm sure you will be happy to cast the deciding vote for our request to drill for oil in the Big Glacier wilderness area. After all, we know your wife is a double agent for the CIA, and I'm sure you wouldn't want her identity made known to certain foreign governments

A) No fallacy. B) Appeal to force. C) Argument against the person, circumstantial. D) Straw man. E) Appeal to pity.

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Locke believed that rationalism is false because _______

A. there are many things that we cannot know B. he did not believe in the existence of universal ideas C. people disagree about a great many things D. he believed it was always possible to show that knowledge arises from experience

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Why is a "four-eyed" dog with a spot above each eye used in a Zoroastrian funeral ritual?

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