Which of the following individuals wrote, "I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness"?

A. John Stuart Mill
B. Simone de Beauvoir
C. Mary Wollstonecraft
D. Carol Gilligan


C. Mary Wollstonecraft

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Who have been accused of thinking of punishment in terms of use rather than justice?

a) The retributivists b) The Utilitarians c) The Quakers d) The restitutionists

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The 1995 Maternal and Infant Health Care Law is a Chinese law that bans marriages between couples "with certain genetic diseases of a serious nature" unless they agree to sterilization or long-term contraception. The law also requires doctors to "advise" parents to abort if an abnormality is detected in the fetus. The state justifies this law as a measure to "shed some of the economic burden" of caring for disabled people. This justification is based on which metaethical theory?

A. Kantian deontology B. care ethics C. utilitarianism D. Buddhist ethics

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Anyone can become a Sikh by believing in the one God, the teachings of the ten gurus, and the Adi

Granth.

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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Schopenhauer was a soft determinist

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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