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Part 4 Flashcards

1
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Augustine held that human seek happiness as a consequence of our incompleteness and finitude.

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True

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According to Plato, the body is the prison of the soul.

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True

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3
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Which was an issue for Comte?

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How to maintain social unity.

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4
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Kierkegaard insists that existence must refer to a quality in the individual, namely his conscious participation in an act.

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True

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5
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According to Hume, the existence of the self can be proved by the senses.

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False

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6
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In Kant’s view, to be moral individuals, our will should obey our inclinations.

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False

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According to Nietzsche, the values of Christianity should be slightly modified to fit the problems of modern times

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False

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Aristotle defines happiness (eudaemonia) as

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activity of the soul in accord with reason

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9
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Which of the following statements would Hume agree with?

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Complex impressions produce complex ideas.

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10
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Kant argued that both rationalism and empiricism presented inaccurate models of the knowledge process.

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True

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What was Mill’s moral theory of utilitarianism?

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General Happiness

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12
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According to Kant, when you act morally,

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you use your reason to deduce your actions from your principles.

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13
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It is impossible to understand the absolute Truth about anything.

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this is an epistemological statement.

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14
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According to Kant, we must make choices we would want everyone to make.

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True

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15
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According to Nietzsche, there is no such thing as Christian sin.

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True

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16
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The worker’s lives would be terribly dehumanized by what Marx calls “the alienation of labor.”

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True

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17
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Kierkegaard’s supported the concepts of rational knowledge.

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False

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18
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According to Plato, the ideal society would be ruled by a philosopher-king (or queen).

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True

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19
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According to Kant, a good will is one that

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Wills to do its duty

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20
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Simple ideas cannot be created by the mind.

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Consistent

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21
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According to Aristotle, something actual is logically prior to whatever is potentiality.

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True

22
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Plato was born in Sparta, but when he was a youth his parents moved to Athens.

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False

23
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According to Berkeley, there is no knowledge in our minds that did not come through our senses.

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True

24
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Zeno believed in the plurality of things.

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False

25
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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.

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True

26
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According to Epictetus, love is the highest virtue.

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False

27
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Thales’s significance is that he was the first greek philosopher.

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consistent

28
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According to Plato, might makes right.

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False

29
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Benthasm made an especially impressive use of the principle of utility in connection with

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Law and Punishment

30
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Augustine believed that all human beings are born essentially good but are corrupted by the sins they commit.

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False

31
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According to Plato, all of reality is constantly changing.

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False

32
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The Forms are not

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Physical

33
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According to Epictetus, nothing can harm a wise person.

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True

34
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Parmenides is rightly called a rationalist because

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he is willing to follow the argument wherever it leads.

35
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According to Kierkegaard,only an act of faith can assure me of my personal relationship to God.

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True

36
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Kant is a nonconsequentialist.

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True

37
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Aristotle argued that science rests of primary premises, which we arrive at by intellectual intuition.

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True

38
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The good life was easily obtained to those who studied the teachings of Socrates.

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False

39
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Nietzsche was insane for the last years of his life.

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True

40
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We have no direct knowledge of matter.

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consistent

41
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Heraclitus was pantheist – a term meaning belief in a transcendent God.

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False

42
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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).

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False

43
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Hegel believed that everything that is, is knowable.

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True

44
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Based on what is known of Thales’ thought, with which of the following statements would he have agreed?

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None of the choices

45
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The central concern of metaphysics is the study of substance, that is, the essential nature of a thing.

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True

46
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Augustine was a minor influence in setting the dominant direction and style of Christian wisdom of the Middle Ages.

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False

47
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Pythagoras was an atheist.

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False

48
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According to Hume, our senses can never provide us with absolute certainty.

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True

49
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Aristotle’s logic was the standard used in Western philosophy for over two thousand years.

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True

50
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According to Epictetus, because our free choices shape our destiny, Fate is an illusion.

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False

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