Which philosopher viewed art as “…not a rational response to the demands of reality, but an irrational denial of reality.”

Somewhat between communism and minimal state theories, we can find the idea of the “liberal state” that recently has been defended by:

According to ethical egoism:

“Because of its purgative or cathartic ability, art (for Aristotle) causes human beings to engage either in violent, antisocial behavior or neurotic attempts to deny reality.” The previous statement is:

“What is the reason for the legitimacy of government?” is a question studied under:

Involuntary female circumcision has been practiced for centuries in some places, and has included virtually all females. If someone from one of these places tells us that we Westerners have no business passing judgment on what his people do, and we should stop trying to interfere in this practice, he is urging us to embrace what ethical system?

In 1995, China passed the Maternal and Infant Health Care Law which 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 of the following ethical theories?

According to determinism, human choices and actions are like all other events in the universe, insofar as:

Sartre claims that, for human beings, “existence precedes essence”; in other words:

According to Locke, human beings have a natural, God-given right to own property insofar as they: