PrepTest 141, Section 1, Question 22
Passage A There are two principles that are(470 more words not shown)
Passage A(267 more words not shown)
Passage B(211 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(22 more words not shown)
- APassage A: to(18 more words not shown)
- BPassage A: to(22 more words not shown)
- CPassage A: to(19 more words not shown)
- DPassage A: to(16 more words not shown)
- EPassage A: to(19 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
We've already identified the relationship: A outlines principles for just ownership and correcting injustice; B discusses Native American land claims in a way that fits those principles. We need purposes broad enough to cover that work, not merely one shared topic.
What we’re looking for
A provides the general framework. B supplies a real situation and a possible moral argument about what should happen to the land.
Working the answers
- A
Rectification does concern a moral problem, but B is not chiefly criticizing a proposed solution. It presents a case for returning land and acknowledges practical limits. That is different from attacking the proposal.
- BCorrect
A sketches a branch of moral theory concerning property: acquisition, transfer and rectification. B gives a particular moral analysis of land claims. Those descriptions capture both the general-to-specific relationship and what each author actually does.
- C
A names two fundamental principles without spelling out their detailed rules. B also describes alleged wrongful transfers, not a case in which a moral ideal has been realized. A violation of a principle does not exemplify ideal compliance with it.
- D
A outlines a framework rather than arguing for adopting a particular moral ideal, and B does not question that framework's assumptions. Its land-restoration reasoning is broadly consistent with the framework.
- E
B is not a counterexample to the principles. Wrongful taking creates a need for rectification under A's theory; it does not show that the theory is false.
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