PT60, S5, Q14 - Human beings can live happily only in

[jennifer]

I found this question diffucult can someone please go through all answer choices and explain why the correct answer is right and the incorrect answers are wrong...thank you...

[giladedelman]

Thanks for posting!

So we're told that people can be happy only in a society where friendship and love are the primary motives. In other words, if people are living happily, those two things are the primary motives in their society; of those things aren't the primary motives in society, then people aren't living happily.

Next we're told that friendship and love being society's primary motives is not necessary for the satisfaction of economic needs.

Answer (D) is correct because we can infer this from the given statements. If it's possible to satisfy economic needs without the friendship/love condition, then it must be possible for human beings to satisfy their economic needs without obtaining happiness, because as we said, if you don't have the friendship/love thing happening, you can't obtain happiness!

(A) is too extreme. It's not true that economic utility can't be a motivator at all.

(B) seems to make sense, but it's actually out of scope with respect to the given statements. We can't infer anything about whether satisfying economic needs is necessary to obtain happiness.

(C) is way out of scope. Family members and close friends?

(E) contradicts the given statements. We know that economic needs can be satisfied without love/friendship, so people don't need to be happy to be economically satisfied.

Does that clear this one up for you?

[jennifer]

Thank you now the answer seems obvious, I got way to caught up in formal logic and went way off track. Thank you again