PrepTest 92+, Section 1, Question 22
Essayist: The historical figures that we find most engaging are very rarely those who are morally most virtuous. What most commonly distinguishes them is their bravery and creativity. Thus, moral virtue is not among the characteristics that we admire most, since the people whose lives we would most like to live are those whose characteristics we admire most.
Essayist: The historical figures that we find most engaging are very rarely those who are morally most virtuous. What most commonly distinguishes them is their bravery and creativity. Thus, moral virtue is not among the characteristics that we admire most, since the people whose lives we would most like to live are those whose characteristics we admire most.
Essayist: The historical figures that we find most engaging are very rarely those who are morally most virtuous. What most commonly distinguishes them is their bravery and creativity. Thus, moral virtue is not among the characteristics that we admire most, since the people whose lives we would most like to live are those whose characteristics we admire most.
Essayist: The historical figures that we find most engaging are very rarely those who are morally most virtuous. What most commonly distinguishes them is their bravery and creativity. Thus, moral virtue is not among the characteristics that we admire most, since the people whose lives we would most like to live are those whose characteristics we admire most.
Which one of the following is an assumption required by the essayist's argument?
The historical figures that we find most engaging are those whose lives we would most like to live.
Bravery and creativity are characteristics that make it more difficult to be morally virtuous.
Historical figures are very rarely morally virtuous.
People develop their conception of what makes an individual admirable based on what they know about historical figures.
Moral virtue is the characteristic of historical figures that we find least engaging.
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