How do you answer the question "What is the meaning of life?" Your essay can draw on any of the options in the text, but can also develop a different image. In either case, be sure to explain the vision of meaning, and explain why this image is compelling to you. Solomon and Higgins say that the way one answers the question of the meaning of life indicates one's "general view of life." What does

your answer reveal about your general view of life?

What will be an ideal response?


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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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Which of the following is not one of the blanks in this sentence

businesses take other legal forms as well, such as _________, __________, and _____________. a. cooperatives b. partnerships c. sole proprietorship d. public spheres

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According to the editors of Harvard Law Review, how does the offset market

undermine the good of being the kind of person who avoids wastefulness?

a. The offset market values efficiency and not the ethic of good character. b. The offset market allows people to “do their part” without actually changing their behavior. c. The market dissolves important qualitative distinctions between types of carbon emissions, and in so doing undermines an idea of wastefulness that has been central to environmental ethics. d. All o the above

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Rachels believes that that:

a. legalizing passive euthanasia is the first step on a slippery slope. b. legalizing active euthanasia is the first step on a slippery slope. c. legalizing assisted suicide is the first step on a slippery slope. d. none of the above

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