An ethical egoist might criticize a car mechanic who cheats his customers by not doing a thorough job on car repairs by saying "even if you are making a profit, what you’re doing is dishonest and so you ought not to do it."

False.

Explanation:

Ethical egoism is demonstrated as the concept associated to the normative theory that promotes an individual is pre-conditioned for pursuing his/her self-interest and the moral agents must act accordingly(to maximize his/her self-interest).

As per the question, the given statement would be considered false as his statement does not reflect his self-interest which an ethical egoist being at a normative position ought to display. An ethical egoist statement will attempt to ensure that the car mechanic(moral agent) must act in his favor(reflects his self-interest) by making him(mechanic realize) that he/she is involved in an disadvantageous or harmful position. Thus, the statement would be considered false.

elise is writing a literary analysis of a biographical essay about emily dickinson.

which of the following should elise use in order to provide a strong claim statement in the introduction to her analysis?

a.  

“a life apart” by julia golding maintains that emily dickenson wrote over a thousand poems during her life.

english novelist and poet, the eldest of the three brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of english literature.

she enlisted in school at roe head in january 1831, aged 14 years. she left the year after to teach her sisters, emily and anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. in 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the sidgwick family, but left after a few months to return to haworth where the sisters opened a school, but failed to attract pupils. instead they turned to writing and they each first published in 1846 under the pseudonyms of currer, ellis and acton bell. her first novel the professor was rejected by publishers, her second novel jane eyre was published in 1847. the sisters admitted to their bell pseudonyms in 1848, and by the following year were celebrated in london literary circles.

brontë experienced the early deaths of all her siblings. she became pregnant shortly after her marriage in june 1854 but died on 31 march 1855, almost certainly from hyperemesis gravidarum, a complication of pregnancy which causes excessive nausea and vomiting.

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