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“Values” are simply:

Ethical Relativism is:

An example of a more might be:

Jeremy Bentham devised:

3. Examples of a priori truths are:

Answer the following 2 questions about this next passage:   Full passage #2: “Next proceed to consider the manner in which the sphere of the intellectual is to be divided. There are two subdivisions, in the lower or which the soul uses the figures given by the former division as images; the enquiry can only be hypothetical, and instead of going upwards to a principle descends to the other end; in the higher of the two, the soul passes out of hypotheses, and goes up to a principle which is above hypotheses, making no use of images as in the former case, but proceeding only in and through the ideas themselves.”   The divisions of the sphere of the intellectual are dealing with the Upper 2 levels of the Divided line.  8. When he says, “in the lower or which the soul uses the figures given by the former division as images” he means (in part):

Answer the following questions based on this passage (which will be repeated in each question):   “Now take a line which has been cut into two unequal parts, and divide each of them again in the same proportion, and suppose the two main divisions to answer, one to the visible and the other to the intelligible, and then compare the subdivisions in respect of their clearness and want of clearness, and you will find that the first section in the sphere of the visible consists of images.   And by images I mean, in the first place, shadows, and in the second place, reflections in water and in solid, smooth and polished bodies and the like… Imagine, now, the other section, of which this is only the resemblance, to include the animals which we see, and everything that grows or is made.   Would you not admit that both the sections of this division have different degrees of truth, and that the copy is to the original as the sphere of opinion is to the sphere of knowledge?”   3. Take this line and answer the following 1 question: “And by images I mean, in the first place, shadows, and in the second place, reflections in water and in solid, smooth and polished bodies and the like”

The three fundamental aspects of Buddhist life are:

Answer the following questions based on this passage (which will be repeated in each question):   “Now take a line which has been cut into two unequal parts, and divide each of them again in the same proportion, and suppose the two main divisions to answer, one to the visible and the other to the intelligible, and then compare the subdivisions in respect of their clearness and want of clearness, and you will find that the first section in the sphere of the visible consists of images.   And by images I mean, in the first place, shadows, and in the second place, reflections in water and in solid, smooth and polished bodies and the like… Imagine, now, the other section, of which this is only the resemblance, to include the animals which we see, and everything that grows or is made.   Would you not admit that both the sections of this division have different degrees of truth, and that the copy is to the original as the sphere of opinion is to the sphere of knowledge?”   Take this line and answer the following questions: “Would you not admit that both the sections of this division have different degrees of truth, and that the copy is to the original as the sphere of opinion is to the sphere of knowledge?”   6. By “Sphere of knowledge” he means:

Who thought a thing that thinks is also a thing that doubts, understands, conceives, affirms, denies, wills, refuses; that imagines also, and perceives?