. A toy puck and a hockey stick cost $1.10 in total. The stick costs $1 more than the puck. How much does the puck cost? a) 10 cents b) 5 cents c) 15 cents d) Cannot be determined 2. In a lake‚ there is a patch of lily pads. Every day‚ the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake‚ how long would it take for the patch to cover half of it? a) 47 days b) 24 days c) 13 days d) Cannot be determined 3. Bob is in a bar‚ looking at Susan
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Sentiment and Social Intuition David Hume (1711-1776) believes that morality is based on sentiment‚ or feelings and emotions. In other words‚ when you feel that something is right or wrong‚ it is because you were taught that it was right or wrong. When researching Hume‚ I found the agent‚ receiver‚ and the spectator distinction: a product of earlier moral sense theories. The agent is the person that performs an action‚ the receiver is the person affected by the action‚ and the spectator is the
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of non-linguistic behavior. These categories of “strong” and “weak” are just some ways that the Sapir- Whorf theory can be viewed. The Sapir- Whorf hypothesis can also be viewed two different ways; it can be linguistic determinism or linguistic relativism. Although this view may be similar in many ways‚ the distinction is a big factor in what the hypothesis itself means. Linguistic determinism is the idea that language and its structure limits human knowledge and thought while also hindering one’s
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Exam 1: Study Guide Thomson argues that a mother and child are (during pregnancy) not “two tenants in a rented house mistakenly rented to both” but rather the mother owns the house. The purpose of this analogy is to reveal that other parties cannot claim to be impartial when they claim they cannot decide who of the two (mother/child) should live. True False Thomson’s famous “people-seed” analogy is intended to be an argument from analogy in support of which view? All abortions are morally
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The Nature of Morality Lesson Objectives Introduction: What is ethics? What is Ethics? Ethics is a study of how we conduct ourselves morally in ____________________________ so that the ________________________________. “Ethics is a study of morality and the application of __________ to elucidate specific _______________ that determine right and wrong” (Crane & Matten 2010‚ p. 8). 4 What is Ethics? “Ethics is a systematic attempt to make sense of our individual
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background of Utilitarianism‚ Kantian‚ Social Contract‚ Divine Command‚ Natural Law‚ and the theory of Virtue. In addition‚ research will explain the concepts of both the individual and cultural relativism; after the research‚ a resolution will research and explain the concepts on how ethical relativism differs from the traditional ethical theories. Six Ethical Theories Ethical theories are groundwork and framework of moral evaluation. Ethical theories are the perspectives in achieving direction
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American children in the film? Why did the American government decide to acculturate them into Western culture? How did this affect them long term? Is acculturating others into another culture ever justified? Cultural Relativism. Cultural relativism asserts that every culture has its own set of customs and beliefs‚ and that culture must be understood by the standards and values of the people within that culture. Anthropologists think that things that might seem cruel or irrational
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the Nacerima by Horace Minor uses key principles to help decipher the hidden meanings behind his work. The article is based off of Americans but written in a primitive manner to help show readers the importance of keeping an open mind. Cultural relativism is crucial when researching a new topic. This culture is different than others based on their obsession with physical appearance but it does not make them wrong. Also‚ the culture that practices different rituals has a different belief system. One
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stanch socialist and righteous royalist are equally right; they just occupy different moral worldviews. Relativism has been widely criticized. It is attacked as being sophomoric‚ pernicious‚ and even incoherent. Moral philosophers‚ theologians‚ and social scientists try to identify objective values so as to forestall the relativist menace. I think these efforts have failed. Moral relativism is a plausible doctrine‚ and it has important implications for how we conduct our lives‚ organize our societies
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