Final Exam

Question 1

What are the two types of transformative experiences?

Answer 1

Epistemically Transformative
Personally Transformative

Question 2

What is required for a Transformative experience

Answer 2

the experience must be both epistemically and personally transformative

Question 3

What is the definition of a transformative experience?

Answer 3

An experience that is both epistemically and personally transformative by changing who you are and giving you new knowledge

Question 4

What were the two aims of the communist manifesto?

Answer 4

Sketch an Ideal society and analyze the modern day

Question 5

What is the purpose of Part 2 in the course?

Answer 5

Examine how unjust conditions constrain an individuals decision making capability

Question 6

What are the four epochs acording to marx?

Answer 6

Fuedalism
Capitalism
Socialism
Communism (future)

Question 7

What is distinctive of capitalism?

Answer 7

free trade
bourgeoisie/proletariat
liberal political institutions

Question 8

What is distinctive of fuedalism

Answer 8

Divine right
absolute monarchy
Aristocracy/peasants

Question 9

how are the classes opposed in a capitalist system?

Answer 9

The burg. want to produce as much wealth for themselves
the pro. want good work conditions with good pay

Question 10

What was fanon primarily concerned with?

Answer 10

race issues derived from colonialism
more specifically how our notions impact our thinking, behaviour, and relationships

Question 11

What is a steryotype threat?

Answer 11

a negative impact on your behavior/self concept due to your awareness of negative stereotypes “in the air”

Question 12

what is a Micro-Agression

Answer 12

a small but hurtful behavior towards another person that is driven by group steryotypes. These can accumulate

Question 13

Why are breasts so important to Iris Young?

Answer 13

the chest is the center of ones person and also a portrayal of the person. The chest highlights the differnece between the lived experinces of men and women

Question 14

What does asigning gender really mean acording to young?

Answer 14

asigning a societal role or category to person

Question 15

What does the lived body mean?

Answer 15

the context, experiences, physical atributes, and alike that all combine in a unique human experince

Question 16

What is a summary of Rushin and Lorde (releavant to iris youngs work)

Answer 16

Both wrote about how their demographics provide a unique set of expectations challenges and opportunities

Question 17

What did barnes write about?

Answer 17

Easy and Hard Transformative experiences

Question 18

What Barnes’ addendums

Answer 18

contingency
specificity
comes in degrees

Question 19

what is contingency (barnes)

Answer 19

whether an experience is transformative depends on more than the experience itself

Question 20

what is “comes in degrees” (barnes)

Answer 20

Experiences can be more or less transformative

Question 21

What is specificity (Barnes)

Answer 21

how or in what way an experience is transfromative can vary

Question 22

What is an easy transformative experience?

Answer 22

an experience that is likely to be transformative

Question 23

How can social conditions be harmful (barnes)

Answer 23

By making certain transformative experiences too easy or too hard

Question 24

What was the broad objective of Barnes work

Answer 24

show that transformative experinces do not happen in a vaccum i.e. context is important

Question 25

What is the categorical imperative

Answer 25

you must follow morality regardless of anything else
morality is define by pure reason

Question 26

who posed authenticity as inner harmony

Answer 26

Frankfurt

Question 27

Define the inner harmony view of authenticity

Answer 27

to have a harmonious inner life and act in way that reflects your priorities

Question 28

Who posed the self definition view of authenticity

Answer 28

Meyers

Question 29

Define the self defention view of authenticity

Answer 29

authenticity is the set of attributes that emerge as one exercises self discovery

Question 30

What did mencius think about human nature?

Answer 30

it is good

Question 31

what did xunzi think about human nature?

Answer 31

is is bad

Question 32

Who posed the four sprouts?

Answer 32

Mencius

Question 33

what are the four core virtues which the sprouts are built on?

Answer 33

benevolence
propriety
righteousness
wisdom

Question 34

what are the four sprouts?

Answer 34

compassion
disdain
deference
approval (disapproval)

Question 35

what does universality mean with respect to the sprouts?

Answer 35

all humans have the fours sprouts, they are a part of what makes us human

Question 36

How do we cultivate the four sprouts?

Answer 36

via reflection

Question 37

In what way does xunzi think human nature is bad?

Answer 37

Human nature consists of selfishness and basic desire

Question 38

How does human nature lead to chaos acording to Xunzi?

Answer 38

When the desires of people are not met, people fight, and chaos follows

Question 39

Which confucian philosopher beleives virtue is aquired similarly to the methods posed by aristotle?

Answer 39

Xunzi

Question 40

What does Xunzi think about cases where people act morally good?

Answer 40

the example is that of deliberate effort and not inherant nature

Question 41

What controls the badness of human nature according to xunzi

Answer 41

ritual

Question 42

what is moral triumphalism

Answer 42

moraity always guarantees an answer in any possible situation