This situation involves several competing values, including religious belief about the
immorality of contraception and the immorality of spreading a deadly disease.
What will be an ideal response?
What
reasoning principles could you use to determine how to resolve such conflicts in
competing values?
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The Invisible Gardener thought experiment is intended to show that the assertion that God exists is a rational claim that can be falsified.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
This comes about when factors outside the individual's control alter the outcome
a. moral luck b. indecision c. imperfect duty d. perfect duty
When Rorty says that philosophy is "edifying discourse" he means that its purpose is to
a. find new, more interesting, and fruitful ways of speaking. b. put us in touch with the realities that transcend the physical world. c. seek for objective truth about the world. d. exclusively focus on ethical values.
Rauch maintains that attempts to eliminate bias and not allow its expression
a. can never fully succeed, but are still worth trying. b. can work effectively within communities or even nations, but not universally. c. have never really been tried, and thus we don't know what would happen. d. wind up stifling dissent and persecuting dissenters. e. are a good idea within colleges and universities, but not on a larger scale.