Marriage

Question 1

The New View:

Answer 1

Marriage and a long term friendship

Question 2

The Old View:

Answer 2

Marriage is the foundation for raising a family

Question 3

Palak Thinks the ___ View is right

Answer 3

Old

Question 4

One argument against the “new” view is that marriage is a

Answer 4

social and political institution. A couple is asking for legal recognition and public acknowledgment of their special relationship.

Question 5

Pakalak makes the argument that

Answer 5

same-sex marriages should be rejected.

Question 6

Pakalak argues that certain beliefs

Answer 6

serve as common goods as well.

Question 6

He is a natural law theorist, and he basically thinks that

Answer 6

Gay and lesbian couples are unnatural and use their sex organs in ways that nature does not intend. He follows St. Thomas Aquinas in this way, believing that the sexual organs have a natural purpose to create offspring.

Question 7

Palak makes his case by saying that

Answer 7

certain beliefs serve as “common goods.”

Question 8

A common good is a

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good that benefits a community that could not be achieved on its own.

EX: The typical example of a common good is infrastructure.

Question 9

A “common good belief” is

Answer 9

widespread and helps define the community as foundational to their way of living. An important feature of these beliefs is that: 1) the members of the community (or most of them) believe it; 2) each member expect most others in the community to believe it; and 3) each members expects most others in the community to expect that the member believes it! v