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There are many people who are on organ donor waiting lists.  Criteria for determining who gets the next available organ were developed to ensure that selection is not based on things like social status, income level, lifestyle, etc.  Which of the five fundamental principles is used to make sure that distribution of organs is fair?

What is the relationship of one’s personal ethics to his/her social ethics?

Which of the following statements is an example of absolute poverty?

The United States is considered to be a part of __________________.

An isotope of boron has 5 protons and 6 neutrons. The atomic number of boron is

In module 4 we discussed two types of faith.  A type of faith in which a person acts with no previous knowledge or experience is called:

An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately owned and operated for profit with minimal or no governmental interference is known as ___________.

 In the following example, which TWO of the five fundamental principles are in conflict?   George works in a high stress environment where it is important that each person does his/her job to ensure equity in the workload.   Because company policy allows employees to take off without pay for defined periods of time, Sam often misses work.  His frequent absences create a “bottle-neck” effect where work piles up and is re-distributed among those who are present.  Sam believes that he is entitled to take those days off since company policy allows it but his peers state that his frequent absences create an unfair distribution of “good & bad.”

_______________ was an English philosopher who wrote The Leviathan.  He argued that man had a natural right to life but that right to life could not be protected in a state of anarchy because man would return to his natural state which was war.  Therefore, a strong central executive government (which in his day meant an absolutist monarch) was needed to overpower everybody and force everybody to obey its laws in order to bring the law and order and peace and stability that was needed in order for the individual’s right to life to be preserved.

__________________ is a system of rule that permits citizens to play a significant part in the governmental process, usually through the election of key public officials.