The belief that the moral rightness and wrongness of actions varies from society to society is called what?

A) diversity thesis

B) dependency thesis

C) relativism thesis

D) subjective thesis


A

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Given the following position on abortion, identify which of the three major ethical theories discussed in the text-utilitarianism, duty theory, or virtue ethics-it follows. Note that each theory may encompass several possible viewpoints on an issue.Abortion should be allowed. It doesn't matter whether one, as an individual, is for or against it; what matters is that women will be dying in back alleys again if their access to abortion is taken away from them.

What will be an ideal response?

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James found his theory of truth in the unpublished work of:

a. Leibniz b. Peirce c. Henry James d. Nietzsche e. Socrates

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INSTRUCTIONS: In each problem below you are given a statement, its truth value in parentheses, and an operation/relation to be performed on that statement. You must identify the new statement and the truth value of the new statement. Take the Aristotelian standpoint and assume that ‘A' and ‘B' denote things that actually exist. All non-A are B. (T) Contraposition

A) All B are non-A. (Und.) B) All non-B are A. (T) C) All A are non-B. (T) D) All non-B are A. (Und.) E) All A are non-B. (Und.)

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