The _____is the main conscious element of the personality and tries to mediate between the unrestrained desires of the superego and the punishing demands of the id for moral perfection

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


Answer: ego

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In comparing intellectual pleasures and physical pleasures, Mill concluded that

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A) is best represented by Ross's theory of ethics. B) states that sometimes the consequences of our actions can be morally relevant. C) states that the moral rightness of an action is determined solely by its results. D) differs from nonconsequentialism because nonconsequentialism denies that consequences have any moral significance.

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