Part 4 Flashcards
Augustine held that human seek happiness as a consequence of our incompleteness and finitude.
True
According to Plato, the body is the prison of the soul.
True
Which was an issue for Comte?
How to maintain social unity.
Kierkegaard insists that existence must refer to a quality in the individual, namely his conscious participation in an act.
True
According to Hume, the existence of the self can be proved by the senses.
False
In Kant’s view, to be moral individuals, our will should obey our inclinations.
False
According to Nietzsche, the values of Christianity should be slightly modified to fit the problems of modern times
False
Aristotle defines happiness (eudaemonia) as
activity of the soul in accord with reason
Which of the following statements would Hume agree with?
Complex impressions produce complex ideas.
Kant argued that both rationalism and empiricism presented inaccurate models of the knowledge process.
True
What was Mill’s moral theory of utilitarianism?
General Happiness
According to Kant, when you act morally,
you use your reason to deduce your actions from your principles.
It is impossible to understand the absolute Truth about anything.
this is an epistemological statement.
According to Kant, we must make choices we would want everyone to make.
True
According to Nietzsche, there is no such thing as Christian sin.
True
The worker’s lives would be terribly dehumanized by what Marx calls “the alienation of labor.”
True
Kierkegaard’s supported the concepts of rational knowledge.
False
According to Plato, the ideal society would be ruled by a philosopher-king (or queen).
True
According to Kant, a good will is one that
Wills to do its duty
Simple ideas cannot be created by the mind.
Consistent
According to Aristotle, something actual is logically prior to whatever is potentiality.
True
Plato was born in Sparta, but when he was a youth his parents moved to Athens.
False
According to Berkeley, there is no knowledge in our minds that did not come through our senses.
True
Zeno believed in the plurality of things.
False
The alteration of anything, the rearrangement of something’s parts, the coming into being of something that did not exist before, and the decline and dissolution of something is called change.
True
According to Epictetus, love is the highest virtue.
False
Thales’s significance is that he was the first greek philosopher.
consistent
According to Plato, might makes right.
False
Benthasm made an especially impressive use of the principle of utility in connection with
Law and Punishment
Augustine believed that all human beings are born essentially good but are corrupted by the sins they commit.
False
According to Plato, all of reality is constantly changing.
False
The Forms are not
Physical
According to Epictetus, nothing can harm a wise person.
True
Parmenides is rightly called a rationalist because
he is willing to follow the argument wherever it leads.
According to Kierkegaard,only an act of faith can assure me of my personal relationship to God.
True
Kant is a nonconsequentialist.
True
Aristotle argued that science rests of primary premises, which we arrive at by intellectual intuition.
True
The good life was easily obtained to those who studied the teachings of Socrates.
False
Nietzsche was insane for the last years of his life.
True
We have no direct knowledge of matter.
consistent
Heraclitus was pantheist – a term meaning belief in a transcendent God.
False
According to Berkeley, because to be is to be perceived, if all humans died, all reality would vanish (because reality is no longer perceived by anyone).
False
Hegel believed that everything that is, is knowable.
True
Based on what is known of Thales’ thought, with which of the following statements would he have agreed?
None of the choices
The central concern of metaphysics is the study of substance, that is, the essential nature of a thing.
True
Augustine was a minor influence in setting the dominant direction and style of Christian wisdom of the Middle Ages.
False
Pythagoras was an atheist.
False
According to Hume, our senses can never provide us with absolute certainty.
True
Aristotle’s logic was the standard used in Western philosophy for over two thousand years.
True
According to Epictetus, because our free choices shape our destiny, Fate is an illusion.
False
