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Final Part 2 Flashcards

1
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According to Hume, every idea can be traced back to a sense impression.

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True

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According to Socrates, the correct definitions of terms used in argumentation are a prerequisite to clear thinking.

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True

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According to Nietzsche, one of the overman’s greatest accomplishments is self-transformation.

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True

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According to Socrates, there are more important things to fear than death.

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True

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Which of the following is consistent with Bentham’s idea of pleasure?

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He was interested chiefly in the quantitaive aspects of pleasure, thus, all actions are equally good if they produce the same amount of pleasure.

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Despite Hume’s admiration for Newton, Hume held that there was nothing in nature that testified to a divine designer.

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True

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Truth, Kierkegaard said, is objective.

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False

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According to Kant, only a wise individual can have a truly good will.

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False

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According to Kant, the twelve categories of the understanding are innate ideas.

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False

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According to Hume, insofar as a philosopher is a rationalist, to that degree the philosopher is wrong.

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True

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Reading David Hume awakened Kant from his “dogmatic slumber.”

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True

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12
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Plato is an empiricist.

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False

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13
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According to Plato, the soul is immortal.

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True

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According to Plato, the highest principle in reality is the essence of Goodness.

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True

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15
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How did Comte try to reform society and philosophy?

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By developing a scence of society, namely, positivism.

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According to Aristotle, we can find matter without form and form without matter.

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False

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According to Marx, all things are related to each other causally; nothing floats freely, therefore there is free will.

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False

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18
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Augustine’s theory of true happiness requires that we go beyond the natural to the supernatural.

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True

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Which of the following is the best paraphrase of a key idea of Epictetus?

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It is not things that disturb humans, but our judgments about them.

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20
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According to Plato, we should have faith that God exists.

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False

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21
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Augustine held that human reason is absolutely certain of the principle of contradiction.

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True

22
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For Augustine true philosophy was inconceivable without a joining of faith and reason.

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True

23
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According to Kant, the world the mind knows cannot exist independently of the mind that knows it.

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True

24
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According to Berkeley, all we know about any object are our ideas about the object.

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True

25
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Which is not one of the four sourcs which pleasure and pain come from?

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Culture

26
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Aristotle did not invent formal logic.

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False

27
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a philosopher from what country?

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Germany

28
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Plato holds that some Forms, but not all, are made of matter.

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False

29
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According to Plato, if the realm of Forms didn’t exist, the physical universe wouldn’t exist.

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True

30
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According to Marx, the ownership of property divides the society between those who have and those who do not.

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True

31
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Socrates devised a method for arriving at truth; he liked knowing and doing, so that to know the good is to do the good.

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True

32
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According to Plato, the majority of the people are foolish.

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True

33
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Marxism affirms the primacy of the material order and regards mental activity as a secondary by-product.

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True

34
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Skeptics held that “no truth can be comprehended by human beings.”

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True

35
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According to Hobbes, if you peel off the veneer of civilization, what you are left with are individuals in conflict.

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True

36
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Metaphysics goes beyond the subject matter of other sciences and is concerned with the knowledge of true reality.

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True

37
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Protagoras held that “man is the measure of all things.”

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True

38
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According to Kant, nature gives its laws to the mind.

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False

39
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According to Kant, What is right for one person is not necessarily right for another

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False

40
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Hume argues that, in the case of a cause-and-effect relationship, we can never make the observation of constant conjunction.

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True

41
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According to Kierkegaard, the most poignant moments in life are personal, when we becomes aware of ourselves as a part of objective reality.

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False

42
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According to Hume,

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our mind is said to be the unchanging producer of our thoughts, but we have no internal impression of anything unchanging and therefore we have no evidence that our mind exists

43
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Kant’s categorical imperative states that one should “act as though the maxim of your will should by your action become a universal law.”

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False

44
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Plato established the first university.

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True

45
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According to Hume, there is more truth in the multiplication tables than there is in any science based on observation.

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True

46
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Which of the following is the best paraphrase of a key idea from Epictetus?

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It is better to die of hunger, but in a state of freedom from grief and fear, than to live in plenty, but with a troubled mind.

47
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According to Hobbes, rationalism to the correct path to knowledge.

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False

48
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According to Herbert the following are universally true common notions: (1) There exists a supreme God, (2) we should worship him, (3) the best from of worship consists of proper moral behavior, (4) we should repent for our immoral conduct, and (5) we will be rewarded or punished in the afterlife for our conduct of earth.

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True

49
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According to Augustine, we can find happiness only in God, since we were made by God to find happiness only in God

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True

50
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The categorical imperative

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forbids manipulation of others for our own purposes.

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