Personal, social, professional, and political problems involving diverging ethical imperatives can be emotionally and intellectually difficult to resolve. Strong critical thinkers approach those challenges mindful that reasonable people ________
(a) will never come to agreement
(b) can disagree
(c) almost always agree
(d) agree unless they are being unreasonable
b
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With which of the following statements would King not agree?
a) There is something in the flow of time that will cure all ills. b) Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. c) There is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth. d) It is wrong to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.
INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. Joe Bradley has thick calluses on both of his hands. Thus, it would appear that Joe does a lot of manual labor
A) False cause. B) Accident. C) No fallacy. D) Composition. E) Appeal to ignorance.
Hannah Arendt was
A) Catholic B) Jewish C) Protestant D) a Nazi
Identify any fallacies in the following passage either by naming them or, where they seem not to conform to any of the patterns described in the text, by giving a brief explanation of why the fallacious reasoning is irrelevant to the point at issue.When he was twelve, Walter Polovchak and his family were permitted to emigrate from the Soviet Union to the United States. Walter's father, however, eventually decided to return to Russia and was pressured by the Soviet Embassy to take Walter with him. The American Civil Liberties Union sided with Walter's father, rather than with Walter, who wished to remain in Chicago. When the case reached the courts, the legal arguments of the ACLU were criticized by some editorial writers on the grounds that in most other instances involving the rights of
children, the ACLU had always sided with the child. Commented one law professor: "The ACLU's actions regarding Walter can be understood only in terms of 'an unwillingness to criticize communism.'" What will be an ideal response?