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Question 1) Globally, how many animal species are considered to be endangered?           Question 2   In light of the discussion in your text, which of the following gives the best reason to believe that animals have intrinsic value? Correct!   Question 3   Justifications for animal experimentation typically appeal to __________ reasoning? Correct!   Question 4   “Laws of nature” always refer to a natural law theory of ethics

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Question 1)

Globally, how many animal species are considered to be endangered?

 

 

 

 

 

Question 2

 

In light of the discussion in your text, which of the following gives the best reason to believe that animals have intrinsic value?

Correct!

 

Question 3

 

Justifications for animal experimentation typically appeal to __________ reasoning?

Correct!

 

Question 4

 

“Laws of nature” always refer to a natural law theory of ethics.

 

 

Question 5

 

By calling something a moral agent, we mean that it is a being that has rights.

 

 

Question 6

 

The idea of "equal consideration" refers to an equal consideration of moral rights.?

 

 

Question 7

 

Which of the following is true of vivisection, as it is practiced today??

 

Question 8

 

The natural state of human liberty is a state of license according to Locke.

 

Question 9

 

The idea that we know what the basic moral law requires by looking to human nature is a tenet of natural law theory.

Correct!

 

 

Question 10

 

The idea that the basic moral law can be known by human reason is a fundamental tenet of natural law theory.

Correct!

 

 

Question 11

 

We have duties toward animals only if they have rights.

 

 

Question 12

 

Aristotle was the first philosopher to develop a complex ethical philosophy related to the ideas of natural law theory.

 

 

Question 13

 

From the anthropocentric perspective the idea that we should curtail human activities to preserve a nonhuman species is generally anchored in which of our ethical theories?

Correct!

 

Question 14

 

Animals are moral patients if what we do to them matters morally.

Correct!

 

 

Question 15

 

Which of the following philosophers does NOT agree that there is such a thing as human nature?

 

Question 16

 

If animals have value only in so far as they are useful for humans, then they have only instrumental, not intrinsic, value.

 

 

Question 17

 

According to Thomas Aquinas (in your reading from the text), "Good has the nature of _____________, while evil has a contrary nature."?

Correct!

 

Question 18

 

Arguments that animals have rights usually appeal to

 

Question 19

 

According to your text, the "animal welfare" approach ?may serve as an intermediate approach, between animal rights perspectives and more anthropocentric perspectives.

 

 

Question 20

 

According to natural rights theory, moral requirements cannot be grounded in human nature.

 

Question 21

 

According to your text, which of the following is NOT a view that Aquinas and Aristotle shared in common??

 

Question 22

 

According to Thomas Aquinas, reason naturally inclines human beings to be good.

 

 

Question 23

 

Descartes thought animal consciousness was equivalent to ?human consciousness.

 

 

Question 24

 

Locke argued all humans should be treated equally because we all have the same basic nature.

Correct!

 

 

Question 25

 

A prudential argument for vegetarianism would be that it is a healthier diet for humans.