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Question 1: According to Brandeis, what is *not* one of the three characteristics peculiar to the professions, that distinguish them from other occupations?

A. Pursued mainly for benefit of others and not one’s self.

B. Amount of financial return is not the measure of success in the profession.

C. Earning a profit is an essential condition of success.

D. Involves training that is intellectual and involves knowledge rather than mere skill.

Question 2: Camenisch considers the debate over whether “corporations should devote any of their profits to philanthropic, educational and other sorts of humanitarian undertakings.”

What is his purpose in mentioning this idea?

A. To provide another illustration of a type of issue that fails to address ethical questions about the “central and essential activity of business”

B. To show that businesses do not have such duties

C. To show that these kinds of moral obligations get at the “central and essential activity of business”

D. To show that businesses do, in fact, have such duties

Answer 1

Answer:

Question 1: According to Brandeis, what is *not* one of the three characteristics peculiar to the professions, that distinguish them from other occupations?

Option C is the right option.

Earning a profit is an essential condition of success.

Question 2: Camenisch considers the debate over whether “corporations should devote any of their profits to philanthropic, educational and other sorts of humanitarian undertakings.”
What is his purpose in mentioning this idea?

Option A is the right option.

To provide another illustration of a type of issue that fails to address ethical questions about the "central and essential activity of business".