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Stable currencies, such as the euro, and the U.S. and Canadian dollars, which are easily converted to other currencies on the world exchange markets.

Which of the following statements concerning the five approach of ethics is TRUE?

 We considered Plato’s story of the “Ring of Gyges.”  Gyges, who finds a magical ring which allows him to become invisible chooses to use the ring to steal, seduce, abuse and kill.  Because he is invisible there are no “consequences” for his actions.  The question that Plato’s character, Glaucon asks is, “Why shouldn’t he do as he pleases?”  “Why should he care about morality?”    This approach to ethics would say that one’s actions should produce the MOST good for the MOST people.

What famous pamphlet advocated a “declaration of independence” and brought the colonies’ separatist agitation to a crisis?

In the selected reading from “Notes on the State of Virginia”, Thomas Jefferson writes as ______________ slavery.

____________________ is a deistic treatise that advocates a rationalistic view of religion. 

The subject matter of Phillis Wheatley’s poetry dealt mostly with religions and life in New England. In terms of structure, her poems were almost always written in _________________. 

Thomas Paine argues in “Common Sense” that American trade, though profitable at present, could potentially be ruined because of the colonies’ connection with Britain. 

The Declaration of Independence is a colonial document which announces the _______________ of the colonies and the British Crown.

Thomas Jefferson’s “Letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush” contains Jefferson’s appraisal of the teachings of which major religious/philosophical figure: