Much of the terminology about freedom of religion

and morality is rooted in Western thinking.



What will be an ideal response?


We tend to tell a Eurocentric or Western-focused story about the development of tolerance, liberty and individual rights. To people who identify with non-Western religions and cultures, this approach reflects a predominantly Christian and European worldview.

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The term that Jaspers uses for the fourth and most comprehensive mode of being

human is

a) Dasein. b) Existenz. c) Transcendence. d) Will to Power

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According to Aristotle, what makes up a well constructed plot?

What will be an ideal response?

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If you speak English but you do not speak Russian, we could say that you have the second-order capacity to speak Russian.

a. true b. false

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Which of the following does not primarily depend upon ideological reasoning?

(a) Government entitlement programs stimulate economic growth. So we need to fund the Small Business Administration's program that connects retired executives as advisors to the owners of mom-and-pop businesses. (b) Government entitlement programs are colossal wastes of taxpayer fund. So we need to discontinue the practice of permitting ranchers to graze their cattle on Federal land. (c) When you use ideological reasoning as foundation for arguments it can be like trying to build a house on a sand dune. (d) "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is far better than not to think at all," argued the respected scholar Hypatia of Alexandria more than fifteen hundred years ago.

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