The "relevant differences argument" maintains that
a. there is no rational justification for assuming your preferences are worth more than those of other persons.
b. there is no relevant difference between being selfish and serving others because it makes you feel good.
c. there are relevant differences between people that justify inequality in our society.
d. there are relevant differences between morally justified egoistic actions and immoral racist and sexist actions.
a. there is no rational justification for assuming your preferences are worth more than those of other persons.
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Which of the following philosophers argued that a life of faith can be congruent with philosophical investigation based on logic and experience?
a. Aristotle b. St. Thomas Aquinas c. Jeremy Bentham d. Jean-Paul Sartre
In focusing exclusively on negative freedom, we can easily
A) ?become emotionally negative. B) ?lose sight of what we want that freedom for. C) ?lose our religious faith. D) ?achieve happiness.
"I was six years old and an only child, and I yearned to have a dog for a pet. My parents got me a cocker spaniel. I was happy beyond words. I named the dog Pooch, but as it turned out, I should have called him Lout, Thug, or Stinker. That dog was perfectly awful-vicious, disobedient, and pathologically territorial-and it refused to be housebroken. I learned my lesson the hard way: Cocker spaniels make dreadful pets. Don't even think about getting one." Identify the fallacy that applies to this example.
A. The fallacy of false alternatives B. The fallacy of hasty generalization C. The questionable cause fallacy D. The fallacy of appeal to ignorance E. None of the answers are correct
Adam Smith, the father of free enterprise, contends that people are basically selfish
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.