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:

Social philosophy deals mainly with the problem of:

Which philosopher has defended the development of a communist society in order to reach a just distribution of goods and services to its citizens?

Utilitarianism, deontologism and moral egoism are respectively associated to the following philosophers:

In response to complaints from students that some professors were allowing a few select students in their classes to do extra credit assignments to pull up their grades, the administration issued a memo telling professors that they cannot give extra credit assignments unless the whole class has an opportunity to earn extra credit. Which of the following duties was the administration referring to?

When ethicists try to derive moral principles of conduct from worldly facts, such as pleasure, utility, rationality, survival, etc., the are committing the:

All are correct of analytic prepositions, except: