Self-study
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Summary
People must live in a society primarily motivated by love and friendship in order to be happy. However, their economic needs can still be met outside of such a society. For example, humans’ economic needs can be met in a society that’s just motivated by economic utility.
Strongly Supported Conclusions
Human beings can have their economic needs met and still be unhappy.
Human beings cannot be happy in a society motivated primarily by economic utility.
14.
Which one of the following ████ █████████ █████████ ███ █████████
a
can live happily ████ ████ ████████ ███████ ██ ███ █ █████████ ██ █████ ███████
This is unsupported. The stimulus says that love and friendship must be the primary motivators of a society in order for people to be happy. As far as we know, economic utility can still be one of the society’s motivators, it just must not be the primary motivator.
b
cannot achieve happiness ██████ █████ ████████ █████ ████ ███████ ████ █████████
This is unsupported. The satisfaction of economic needs is not presented as necessary for happiness. Rather, a society motivated by love and friendship is necessary. Perhaps one could live in a society motivated by love, be economically unsatisfied, and still be happy.
c
cannot satisfy economic █████ ██ █████ ██ ████████████ ████ ██████ ███████ ███ █████ ███████
This is unsupported. The stimulus does not give us any information about whether a person can or cannot satisfy their economic needs through family and friends. We only know that economic needs can be satisfied in a society “where only economic utility motivates action.”
d
can satisfy their █████ ████████ █████ ███████ █████████ █████████
This is strongly supported. Humans must live in a society primarily motivated by love and friendship in order to obtain happiness. Humans can satisfy their basic economic needs outside of such a society. Thus, humans can satisfy their economic needs without obtaining happiness.
e
cannot really be ████ ██ ████ █████████ █████ ████████ █████ ██████ ████ ███ █████
This is anti-supported. The stimulus tells us that humans can satisfy their economic needs in a society primarily motivated by economic utility. In such a society, people are not happy. So a person does not need to be happy in order to be economically satisfied.