Section II: Attribute the following quotations or statements in the bottom porti

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Section II: Attribute the following quotations or statements in the bottom portion of this page to the correct thinker listed in the top portion
A. Aristotle   F. John Stuart Mill
B.   Jeremy Bentham G. Nel Noddings
C.   Confucius H. Ayn Rand
D. Immanuel Kant I. John Rawls
E. John Locke J. Thich Nhat Hanh

______“The community is a fictitious body, composed of the individual persons who are considered as constituting as it were its members. The interest of the community then is, what? – the sum of the interests of the several members who compose it.”
______“Thus the moral worth of an action does not lie in the effect expended from it, not in any principle of action which requires to borrow its motive from this expected effect…The preeminent good which we call moral can therefore consist in nothing else than the conception of law in itself, which certainly is only possible in a rational being, in so far as this conception, and not the expected effect, determines the will.”
______“When we commit ourselves to obey the ‘I must’ even at its weakest and most fleeting, we are under the guidance of [the ethical ideal]…[I]t is our best picture of ourselves caring and being cared for…”
______ “Knowing that words can create happiness or suffering, I am determined to speak truthfully, with words that inspire self-confidence, joy, and hope.”
______“In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone.”
______“Virtue…is a state of character concerned with choice, lying in a mean, i.e. the mean relative to us, this being determined by a rational principle, and by that principle which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.”
______“For, when any number of men have, by the consent of every individual, made a community, they have thereby made that community one body, with a power to act as one body, which is only by the will and determination of the majority.”
______“In administering your government, what need is there for you to kill? Just desire the good for yourself and the common people will be good. The virtue of the gentleman is like wind; the virtue of the small man is like grass. Let the wind blow over the grass and it is sure to bend…”
______“A set of principles is required for choosing among the various social arrangements which determine this division of advantages and for underwriting an agreement on the proper distributive shares. These principles are the principles of social justice…”
______“The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.”

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___Jeremy Bentham___“The community is a fictitious body, composed of the individual persons who are considered as constituting as it were its members. The interest of the community then is, what? – the sum of the interests of the several members who compose it.”
___Immanuel Kant___“Thus the moral worth of an action does not lie in the effect expended from it, not in any principle of action which requires to borrow its motive from this expected effect…The preeminent good which we call moral can therefore consist in nothing else than the conception of law in itself, which certainly is only possible in a rational being, in so far as this conception, and not the expected effect, determines the will.”
___Nel Noddings___“When we commit ourselves to obey the ‘I must’ even at its weakest and most fleeting, we are under the guidance of [the ethical ideal]…[I]t is our best picture of ourselves caring and being cared for…”
___Thich Nhat Hanh
___ “Knowing that words can create happiness or suffering, I am determined to speak truthfully, with words that inspire self-confidence, joy, and hope.”
___Ayn Rand
___“In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone.”
___Aristotle___“Virtue…is a state of character concerned with choice, lying in a mean, i.e. the mean relative to us, this being determined by a rational principle, and by that principle which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.”
___John Locke___“For, when any number of men have, by the consent of every individual, made a community, they have thereby made that community one body, with a power to act as one body, which is only by the will and determination of the majority.”
___Confucius___“In administering your government, what need is there for you to kill? Just desire the good for yourself and the common people will be good. The virtue of the gentleman is like wind; the virtue of the small man is like grass. Let the wind blow over the grass and it is sure to bend…”
___John Rawls___“A set of principles is required for choosing among the various social arrangements which determine this division of advantages and for underwriting an agreement on the proper distributive shares. These principles are the principles of social justice…”
__John Stuart Mill___“The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.”

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