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Part 3 Flashcards

1
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According to Mill moral actions are those which produce what?

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Good

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2
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Just as a blind man cannot create the idea of color, the mind cannot create a simple idea.

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consistent

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3
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Herbert states our minds contain instinctive “common notions” that are universally true.

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True

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According to Plato, if triangles didn’t exist, the Form of Triangle wouldn’t exist.

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False

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5
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When Hume says that “all events seem entirely loose and separate,” he means to imply that

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There is no necessary connection to be observed among them.

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6
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Where was Bentham born?

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London

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Sparked by dramatic advances in the sciences, Enlightenment thinkers were convinced that through the exercise of human reason they could unravel the mysteries of the universe and set society off in a new and highly advanced direction.

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True

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According to Nietzsche, God does not exist.

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True

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According to Aristotle, scientific knowledge rests on knowledge that is itself subject to the same proof as scientific conclusions.

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False

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According to Berkeley, it is incorrect to believe, as Aristotle did, that physical substances are composed of matter and form.

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True

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According to Hobbes, thinking is a variation of self-reflection

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False

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According to Kant, knowledge begins with sense experience but is not entirely produced by sense experience.

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True

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Positivism says we should reject any investigation that does not rest on direct observation.

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True

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According to Hobbes, in a state of nature men are superior to women.

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False

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15
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Epictetus held that God is all powerful, all wise, and all good.

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True

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16
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Definitions, for Socrates, involves a process by which our minds distinguish the essence of an object.

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True

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17
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The principle of cause and effect is an important basis of scientific observation.

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True

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18
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For Plato, the most important feature of the physical world is that it is unchanging.

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False

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According to Plato, perfect Courage exists.

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True

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20
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Kant lived in Ireland all his life.

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False

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21
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In describing the human condition, Kierkegaard distinguished between what we now are and what we ought to be. That is, there is a movement from our essence to our existence.

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True

22
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Aristotle agreed with Plato that the fundamental nature of reality was grounded in mathematics.

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False

23
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To think in terms of existence meant for Kierkegaard to recognize that we face personal choices.

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True

24
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Simply because we have no sense knowledge of matter or spirit, it would be wrong to say matter and spirit do not exist.

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consistent

25
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Who was the ablest advocate of utilitarianism?

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Mill

26
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Which of the following statements is not true about John Stuart Mill?

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Mill was completely against his father’s ideas.

27
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Aristotle categories represented the classification of concepts that are used in scientific knowledge.

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True

28
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Virtue, Aristotle says, is defined by a mean relative to us. He means that

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Facts about an individual and her circumstances are relevant to what should be done.

29
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According to Berkeley, when a human mind knows things in the external world, the mind is knowing God’s ideas.

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True

30
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At Plato’s Academy, Aristotle has the reputation of being the “reader” and “the mind of the school.”

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True

31
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According to Kant, Newtonian science is not a description of ultimate reality.

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True

32
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Berkeley was born, and lived most of his life, in Holland.

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False

33
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According to Hobbes, knowledge of consequences is hypothetical or conditional but is based on logic.

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False

34
Q

Which philosoper was called the founder of positive philosophy?

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Comte

35
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According to Schopenhauer, “the life of every individual…is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.”

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True

36
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Socrates, by only two years, outlived Plato

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False

37
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According to Plato, the mind can know truths independently of any information from the senses.

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True

38
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According to Hobbes, the driving force in a person is the need for love.

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False

39
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According to Hume, if substance cannot be known by a sense impression, as Locke claims, then we have no evidence of the existence of substance.

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True

40
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According to Hobbes, the picture we get of this state of nature is of people moving against each other- bodies in motion- or the anarchic condition of “the war of all against all.”

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True

41
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Thales’ quest for the source of the unity of all things is the embodiment of what every philosophy tires to do.

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consistent

42
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According to Nietzsche, a hero like Martin Luther King should be praised more for what he made of himself than for what he did for others.

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True

43
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Kant believed that there existed a noumenal realm of things-in-themselves, even though we can never access it.

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True

44
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According to Hobbes, unless the rules of the social contract are enforced by the will of the people, everything will collapse again into the state of nature.

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False

45
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According to Hume, we can know for certain that God does not exist.

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False

46
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According to Aristotle, thinking is always about some specific individual thing, namely, a substance.

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True

47
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According to Nietzsche, all of life is driven by the will to power.

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True

48
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According to Comte, how many main divisions do human prvidence contain?

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4

49
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Marx’s prediction that the capitalist order would succeed was based on this notion that the changes in the quantitative factors in capitalism would inevitably support capitalism.

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False

50
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The main difference between master morality and slave morality is that

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one morality is founded in affirmation and the other in resentment.

Philosophy II (8 decks)

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