PHL/320T CRITICAL THINKING AND DECISION MAKING IN BUSINESS The Latest Version A+ Study Guide
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to eCampus by your instructor. Don't worry, this might happen after your due date. Virtue ethics is an abstruse ethical theory. True or False
Reasoning used by jurists and attorneys in applying the law is both deductive and inductive. True or False
In estimating the moral worth of what people do, utilitarianism seems to discount people's intentions. True or False
A moral imperative prescribes an action, not for the sake of some result, but simply because that action is our moral duty. True or False
Legal reasoning and moral reasoning both lead to prescriptions about whether or not certain actions should be done. True or False
Stare decisis is the doctrine that even though a court has pronounced a principle of law applicable to a certain set of facts, other judges should follow common sense in determining whether to apply that principle to other cases in which the facts are substantially the same. True or False
Immanuel Kant's deontologism urges people to act so as to produce the most happiness. True or False
Identifying Reasons That are Helpful in Focusing Perception 2 Determine whether the following reasons are (1) helpful in focusing perception to elicit a favorable response, (2) helpful in focusing perception to elicit an unfavorable response, (3) too vague to focus perception, (4) false or implausible and therefore unable to focus perception, or (5) irrelevant to focusing perception. The information you need is contained in the reasons, so try to visualize or imagine what the work is like from what is said. All of these are paraphrases of testimony given at a hearing in 1985 about a proposal to remove Tilted Arc,an immense abstract sculpture, from a plaza in front of a federal office building. 1. Tilted Arc is big and rusty. •
Helpful in focusing perception to elicit a favorable response • Helpful in focusing perception to elicit an unfavorable response • Too vague to focus perception • False or implausible and therefore unable to focus perception • Irrelevant to focusing perception
2. Because of its size, thrusting shape, and implacably uniform-rusting surface, Tilted Arc makes us feel hopeless, trapped, and sad. This sculpture would be interesting if we could visit it when we had time to explore these feelings, but it is too depressing to face every day on our way to work. •
Helpful in focusing perception to elicit a favorable response • Helpful in focusing perception to elicit an unfavorable response • Too vague to focus perception • False or implausible and therefore unable to focus perception • Irrelevant to focusing perception
3. Serra’s erotically realistic, precise rendering of the female figure in Tilted Arc exhibits how appealingly he can portray the soft circularity of a woman’s breast. • Helpful in focusing perception to elicit a favorable response •
Helpful in focusing perception to elicit an unfavorable response • Too vague to focus perception • False or implausible and therefore unable to focus perception • Irrelevant to focusing perception
4. Tilted Arc is sort of red; it probably isn’t blue. • Helpful in focusing perception to elicit a favorable response • Helpful in focusing perception to elicit an unfavorable response • Too vague to focus perception •
False or implausible and therefore unable to focus perception • Irrelevant to focusing perception