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WorksheetsDependent Rational Animals
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 30mins
While acknowleding human ________ animals, MacIntyre wants to stress the ________ of humans with animals.
1) continuity with
2) difference
1) distance from
2) equality
1) difference from
2) continuity
1) elevation over
2) unity
MacIntyre argues that dolphin behavior is clearly goal directed and purposeful. He concludes that dolphins must have some kind of
abstract knowledge.
emotions and feelings.
thoughts, beliefs and reasons.
language and articulate expressions of ideas.
MacIntyre notes that dog training involves 1) correction of the dog's behavior, 2) recognition of intentions of the trainer and
3) having a rational conversation with the trainer.
3) communicating its own intentions to the trainer.
3) geting treats.
3) disobience of trainer commands.
MacIntyre complains that Adam Smith
recognizes human vulnerablity will undermine the pursuit of wealth but choses to ignore the fact.
acknowledges that capitalism will fail once people realize that human vulnerability makes the pursuit of wealth unattractive.
argues that material wealth is not important.
does not treat animals with dignity.
In order to change our motivations, we have to:
fight through our desires so that we achieve what is good even though it is painful.
move from an internal desire for a good to seeking things for external rewards.
set up our environment so that we can only be motivated by one thing.
move from seeking things for the external rewards to doing things because of goods that is realized in the pursuits of that thing.
Bad parents demand that their children follow the preference of the parents when choosing a life state. What is wrong with this? (Choose all that apply)
Children do not owe this too parents.
Parents are confusing their parental authority (power) with the family network of giving and receiving.
Parents are deceiving children about what is owed to parents.
Children basically don't need their parents to help them decide what to do.
The virtues of acknowledged dependence are:
1) just generosity
1) just generosity
2) gratitude
1) justice
2) fortitude
3) temperance
4) prudence
1) cleverness
2) stuborness
The nation state cannot achieve common goods because
it does not try to provide any goods to citizens.
it is dominated by money.
it can't get anything done.
it does not have enough power.
What is the best way to be political according to MacIntyre?
Be a passive recipient of government power and then vote once a year.
Run for political office.
Engage in the local community with its networks of giving and receiving in order to advance common goods.
Join a monastary and be a hermit.
The virtues help us to progress on the journey from animal identities to independent practical reasons by: (Choose all that apply)
teaching us to distance ourselves from immediate felt desires so that more long-term desires can be fulfilled.
allowing us to evaluate the reasons that we do things so that we can choice to act toward what is the best for the right reason.
helping us to envision alternate futures.
locking us into a fixed set of motivations and desires that we have no power to change.
