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

1. Socrates believed that only ignorance leads to wrongdoing.
2. Socrates says that virtue is not given by money, but from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private.
3. Dworkin believed that a life is valuable only if it produces something, whether it be a book or an invention or a work of art.
4. Dworkin believed that the end result is much more important that the means through which people get the end result.
5. In A Man for All Seasons, Sir Thomas More is jailed and executed for heresy and corrupting the youth, in a historical situation bearing a remarkable resemblance to that of Socrates.


1. True
2. True
3. False
4. False
5. False

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