Final Part 2 Flashcards
According to Hume, every idea can be traced back to a sense impression.
True
According to Socrates, the correct definitions of terms used in argumentation are a prerequisite to clear thinking.
True
According to Nietzsche, one of the overman’s greatest accomplishments is self-transformation.
True
According to Socrates, there are more important things to fear than death.
True
Which of the following is consistent with Bentham’s idea of pleasure?
He was interested chiefly in the quantitaive aspects of pleasure, thus, all actions are equally good if they produce the same amount of pleasure.
Despite Hume’s admiration for Newton, Hume held that there was nothing in nature that testified to a divine designer.
True
Truth, Kierkegaard said, is objective.
False
According to Kant, only a wise individual can have a truly good will.
False
According to Kant, the twelve categories of the understanding are innate ideas.
False
According to Hume, insofar as a philosopher is a rationalist, to that degree the philosopher is wrong.
True
Reading David Hume awakened Kant from his “dogmatic slumber.”
True
Plato is an empiricist.
False
According to Plato, the soul is immortal.
True
According to Plato, the highest principle in reality is the essence of Goodness.
True
How did Comte try to reform society and philosophy?
By developing a scence of society, namely, positivism.
According to Aristotle, we can find matter without form and form without matter.
False
According to Marx, all things are related to each other causally; nothing floats freely, therefore there is free will.
False
Augustine’s theory of true happiness requires that we go beyond the natural to the supernatural.
True
Which of the following is the best paraphrase of a key idea of Epictetus?
It is not things that disturb humans, but our judgments about them.
According to Plato, we should have faith that God exists.
False
Augustine held that human reason is absolutely certain of the principle of contradiction.
True
For Augustine true philosophy was inconceivable without a joining of faith and reason.
True
According to Kant, the world the mind knows cannot exist independently of the mind that knows it.
True
According to Berkeley, all we know about any object are our ideas about the object.
True
Which is not one of the four sourcs which pleasure and pain come from?
Culture
Aristotle did not invent formal logic.
False
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a philosopher from what country?
Germany
Plato holds that some Forms, but not all, are made of matter.
False
According to Plato, if the realm of Forms didn’t exist, the physical universe wouldn’t exist.
True
According to Marx, the ownership of property divides the society between those who have and those who do not.
True
Socrates devised a method for arriving at truth; he liked knowing and doing, so that to know the good is to do the good.
True
According to Plato, the majority of the people are foolish.
True
Marxism affirms the primacy of the material order and regards mental activity as a secondary by-product.
True
Skeptics held that “no truth can be comprehended by human beings.”
True
According to Hobbes, if you peel off the veneer of civilization, what you are left with are individuals in conflict.
True
Metaphysics goes beyond the subject matter of other sciences and is concerned with the knowledge of true reality.
True
Protagoras held that “man is the measure of all things.”
True
According to Kant, nature gives its laws to the mind.
False
According to Kant, What is right for one person is not necessarily right for another
False
Hume argues that, in the case of a cause-and-effect relationship, we can never make the observation of constant conjunction.
True
According to Kierkegaard, the most poignant moments in life are personal, when we becomes aware of ourselves as a part of objective reality.
False
According to Hume,
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
Kant’s categorical imperative states that one should “act as though the maxim of your will should by your action become a universal law.”
False
Plato established the first university.
True
According to Hume, there is more truth in the multiplication tables than there is in any science based on observation.
True
Which of the following is the best paraphrase of a key idea from Epictetus?
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.
According to Hobbes, rationalism to the correct path to knowledge.
False
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.
True
According to Augustine, we can find happiness only in God, since we were made by God to find happiness only in God
True
The categorical imperative
forbids manipulation of others for our own purposes.
