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PLEASE ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS 1-9
QUESTION 1
Perfectionism is the view that:
The state needs to be perfect.
The state should make people perfect.
The state should not be neutral towards conceptions of the good life.
The state should try to make society's traditions perfect.
QUESTION 2
Pat Tillman's conception of the good life placed community service ahead of individual reward. The following shows this:
Tillman saved an innocent victim of a mugging.
Tillman gave up a scholarship to help inner city youths.
Tillman worked for head start.
Tillman gave up a successful professional football career to service in the military in Afghanistan.
QUESTION 3
Kitty Genovese was:
Unlucky enough to live among individualists who felt no obligation to help her.
Unlucky enough to live among meddling neighbors.
Lucky enough to live among caring neighbors.
Lucky enough to win a scholarship.
QUESTION 4
Encumbered selves are:
Unfortunate enough to be burdened by their obligations to others.
Unfortunate enough to live in isolation from others.
People who have attachments to other people.
People who have no attachments to other people.
QUESTION 5
Communitarians think:
Since we are encumbered by our attachments, we have no real choices.
Our encumbrances constrain our choices.
We should free ourselves from our encumbrances.
Our encumbrances don't put substantial limits on what we can be and do.
QUESTION 6
According to communitarianism, the increase in no-fault divorce is a sign of:
Our society's increasing focus on the value of community.
Our society's increasing individualism.
Our society's increasing freedom.
Our society's increasing encumberedness.
QUESTION 7
Conservatives think that prostitution:
Expands the realm of human freedom.
Undermines a woman's right to do what she wants with her own body.
Provides an important outlet for male sexuality.
Undermines the valuable tradition of keeping sex within marriage.
QUESTION 8
Irving Kristol thinks:
Consumer capitalism has been a great benefit to society.
The virtues of the bourgeois citizen are not a valueable tradition.
The virtues of the bourgeois citizen are those of the consumer.
The virtues of the bourgeois citizen are becoming more rare.
QUESTION 9
Communitarians believe that:
The state should foster social capital.
The state should not foster social capital.
Social capital is the wealth of those with social prestige.
The social capital is the city in which the wealthiest live.
The state needs to be perfect.
The state should make people perfect.
The state should not be neutral towards conceptions of the good life.
The state should try to make society's traditions perfect.
Explanation / Answer
Question 1
Answer. The state should not be neutral towards conceptions of good life.
Perfectionism views that state should promote for the good of it's people so that they could attain a good, harmonious and perfect life. Perfect life can be attained by striving towards it.
Question 2
Answer. Tillman gave up a successful professional football career to service in the military in Afghanistan.
Pat Tillman after the incident of terror attack of September 11 gave up his successful professional football career for the sake of community service and joined military.
Question 3
Answer. Unlucky enough to live among among individuals who felt no obligation to help her.
Kitty Genovese was stabbed and raped, and was left to die near her apartment. Many of her neighbors saw this bleeding women but dared not to help her,but when help reached her,she went critical and succumbed to death.
Question 4
Answer. People who have attachments to other people.
Encumbered selves are the social attachments that individuals have with other people around them.
Question 5
Answer. Our encumbrances don't push substantial limits on what we can be and do.
Question 6
Answer. Our society's increasing individualism
Question 7
Answer. Undermines a woman's right to do what she wants with her own body.
Question 8
Answer. The virtues of the bourgeois citizen are those of the consumer.
Question 9
Answer. The state should foster social capital.
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