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1
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According to Kant, the mind can know truths independently of the senses.

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False

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Which of the following philosophers would Mill most strongly agree with?

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Epicurus

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3
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Kierkegaard dialectic involves the progressive actualization of the individual.

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True

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According to Anaximander, human beings originated from inside fishes.

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True

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As a metaphysical theory idealism in general is the view that the universe is composed solely of mental (spiritual) things, there is in reality no material stuff.

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True

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Socrates was committed to the pursuit of truth and considered it his mission to seek out the basis for stable and certain knowledge and therefore can be called a skeptic.

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False

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7
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Thrasymachus reduced morality to power.

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True

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Mill defends the notion of individual freedom by saying that:

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As long as others are not harmed by our conduct, then we should be free to engage in almost any activity we please, without government interference.

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According to Kant, earlier failed metaphysical investigations had tried to show how our knowledge must conform to objects. He proposed to show how objects must conform to our knowledge.

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True

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According to Hobbes, only rational desires are recognized as motivators, so all actions are performed for the welfare of the agent.

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False

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11
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The Form of Triangle is

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independent of all physical triangles.

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12
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According to Epictetus, all we can control is our attitude toward the world.

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True

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According to Berkeley, though the senses provide no evidence of matter’s existence, we must nonetheless assume that matter exists.

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False

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14
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Which of the following is not a true statement about the realm of Forms?

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The realm of Forms contains the Form of Godliness.

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15
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In Plato’s view, Forms never change.

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True

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16
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According to Hegel, what are the four specific periods of historical development?

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Oriental, Greek, Roman, and Germanic

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17
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Which of the following statements would Hume agree with?

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We think we observe one event causing another event, but all we really observe is one event preceding another event

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18
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According to Epictetus, self-control is one of the highest virtues.

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True

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19
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Which phioloopher had a long romance wih Harriet Taylor?

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Mill

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20
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According to Epictetus, our lives should be guided by love, not reason.

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False

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21
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In the “Allegory of the Cave,” the sun is a symbol for

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the Form of the Good.

22
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The Greeks considered happiness to be the culmination of the good life.

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True

23
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If there were no Form of Triangle, then physical triangles would not exist.

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True

24
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According to Aristotle, happiness is achieved when people fulfill their natural functions through a well-balanced life.

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True

25
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According to Hume, it is 100 percent certain that the sun will rise tomorrow.

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False

26
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Knowing the taste of an oyster and pineapple is compared to knowing the color of black and white.

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Inconsistent

27
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According to Hume, the design of the universe is evidence of God’s existence.

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False

28
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Hume adopts Newton’s motto, “frame no hypotheses,” in order to

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construct a science of human nature on the basis of the facts.

29
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According to Hume, a causal relationship is identical to a sequential relationship.

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False

30
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Teleology comes from the Greek word telos- meaning purpose; the purpose in human nature and the events of history.

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True

31
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Berkeley argued that, because we have no sense knowledge of matter, we must conclude that matter is merely a substratum of the qualities we know with our senses.

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False

32
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Parmenides, like Thales and Heraclitus, held that

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it is possible to solve the problem of the One and the Many.

33
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Which of the following is not one of the three laws of association of ideas?

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the law of identity

34
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Berkeley is a rationalist, arguing that all knowledge we gain through the senses is unreliable.

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False

35
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In Kant’s view, it is the world that shapes the mind, rather than vice versa.

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False

36
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According to deism, there are special appearances, miracles, prophecies, or divine composed scriptures.

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False

37
Q

According to Hegel, history is mind clothing itself with the form of _______.

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Events

38
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I am autonomous in the realm of morality in the sense that

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I am a legislator of the moral law for myself.

39
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According to Neitzsche, the greatest philosophers are those who question traditional values.

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True

40
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According to Nietzsche, we should strive for peace of mind.

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False

41
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According to Berkeley, we have sense knowledge of matter.

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False

42
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According to Hobbes, morality and law are simply the best means available, the only means to stave off imminent death and the possible loss of felicity (great happiness). Being moral and law-abiding is no more than a smart strategy for self-preservation.

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True

43
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Who was the first German idealist to recognize a glaring contradiction in Kant’s metaphysical argument?

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Johann Fichte

44
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According to Hume, nothing can be known for certain.

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False

45
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Deism is the view that God created the world and guides history.

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False

46
Q

Hegel describe how the universal mind develops over time through actions of

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individuals, collections of people, and governments

47
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Nietzsche was born and died in which of the following centuries?

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Nineteenth

48
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What does it mean that God is dead?

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nihilism threatens

49
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Kant argues that it is acting from duty, not from will, that makes us moral individuals.

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False

50
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According to Plato, just as the form of triangle consists of truths about Triangleness, so the Form of Square consists of truths about Squareness and the form of Sphere consists of truths about Sphereness.

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True

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