Exam 3 Flashcards
According to Descartes the method for the discovery of “Truth” is analytic. Which of the following is/are not a rule?
Make enumerations that are so specific so as to prove certainty of things only
According to Spinoza which of the following concepts does not fit within the bounds of a contracted governments rights for a “just exercise of sovereign power?”
Freedom guided by Reason
According to Spinoza “infinite substance must have [what]?”
Infinity of attributes
According to Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy (2nd Meditation), which of the following is not a description of what type of thing am “I?”
Unthinking
According to Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy (2nd Meditation), what type(s) of “Actions” are not attributed to the “Soul?”
Dreams
According to Spinoza’s Ethic (Part I, Prop. VII & VIII), which of the following does not apply to the “Nature of Substance?”
Its essence necessarily involves non-existence
According to Descartes which of the following is not true when speaking of “Mind” and “Matter?”
Mind and Matter are two clearly distinct uncreated substances
According to Spinoza’s Ethic (Part II, Prop. I-VI), which of the following is not an attribute of “God?”
Finitude
According to Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy (1st Meditation), what should we never trust because we are constantly “Deceived?”
Senses
According to Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy (3rd Meditation), which of the following is not proof that God “Exists?”
I know God through faith
According to Spinoza’s line of thought which of the following are considered to make a valid statement?
The whole of God or Nature in its attribute of extension
According to Spinoza’s Ethic (Part II, Prop. X), which of the following is not an attribute of “Man?”
Man necessarily exists from Substance
According to Spinoza which is one of his “inalienable rights?”
The freedom on inward piety
According to Descartes what “is perceived as true every time a mind thinks?”
I think, therefore I am
According to Locke which of the following concepts do not apply to “Man?”
Innate Ideas
According to Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Book I.1.8) which does not represent an “Idea?”
Extension
According to Hume which of the following concepts is/are not encompassed within “Impressions?”
Ideas
According to Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Part II), which of the following best describes his “Cause and Effect” analogy?
Architect: House
According to Locke which of the following are not representative of “Secondary Qualities?”
Number
According to Hume what is the origin of the idea of “Causality?”
None can be discovered
According to Locke which are the “Dispositional Qualities?”
Solubility, Fragility, Flammability
According to Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Part II), which of the following is most valid about the humans and God?
Humans have no experience of divine attributes and operations
According to Locke which of the following is one of his “Three Main Reasons” for rejecting innate ideas?
Children and Idiots do not seem to possess them
According to Locke what is the chief reason why a government is established?
Private Property
According to Locke which of the following theories processes the external world and transforms it into “Mental Events?”
Causal Theory of Perception
According to Hume what can ultimately be known by Man?
Nothing
According to Hume why can our “Beliefs” not be rationally justified?
Based upon Imagination
According to Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Part II), which of the following best describes his “Design Argument?”
The universe must have been created by an infinite mind
According to Kant’s Foundation for the Metaphysics of Morals (Chap. I) what is the “Categorical Imperative?”
Act only according to a principle that can be universalized
According to Kant’s Foundation for the Metaphysics of Morals (Chap. I) of what is the “Will” equivalent?
Practical Reason
According to Kant how should Man treat “Rational Beings?”
As ends in themselves and never merely as means
According to Kant’s Foundation for the Metaphysics of Morals (Chap. II) which of the following is “the sole principle of ethics?”
Autonomy
According to Kant all “Knowledge” arises out of which of the following?
Experience, Reason, and the Mind
According to Kant what is the basis of “Human Dignity?”
The Will
According to Kant’s Foundation for the Metaphysics of Morals (Chap. I) what is the only thing good without qualification?
Good Will
According to Marx in Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts which is not a tenet of establishing “Communism?”
Allow old folks their own private property
According to Marx what prevents human beings from reaching their “full potential?”
Capitalism
According to Marx what is the first thing to happen when the “Bourgeoisie” is overthrown?
A Dictatorship is established
According to Marx in The German Ideology what is not a component or by-product of “Big Industry?”
Big Industry” does not force labour to alienate workers
According to Marx in Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts which is not a “Power of Money?”
I am a honest man without money, I am honored as a man with riches
According to Marx what is the human beings “full potential?”
Self-determining beings
According to Marx in Towards a Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right what is not stated about “Religion?”
It is the feeling of the heart-felt world
According to Hobbes “Knowledge” is derived from what “Thing?”
Sense Experience
According to Hobbes’ Levithan or The Matter, Form & Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil (PART 2 - Of Commonwealth - Chap. 17 - Of the Causes, Generation, and Definition of a Commonwealth), what type of “agreement” is made between men?
Covenant
According to Hobbes what arises out of “Fear and Ignorance?”
Religion
According to Hobbes’ Levithan or The Matter, Form & Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil (PART 1 - Of Man - Chap. 13 - Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning their Felicity and Misery) “in the nature of man” we find which is one of the “three principal causes of quarrel?”
Glory
According to Hobbes’ Levithan or The Matter, Form & Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil (PART 1 - Of Man - Chap. 2 - Of Imagination), what is “imagination?”
Decaying sense
According to Hobbes what are synonymous with “Good and Evil?”
Like: Dislike
According to Hobbes’ Levithan or The Matter, Form & Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil which most closely represents the “State of Nature?”
Survival of the Fittest
According to Hobbes what is the only thing to “Exist?”
Matter
