PhiloEd

Question 1

Born in China in 551 BCE

Answer 1

Confucius

Question 2

Was Plato’s student

Answer 2

Aristotle

Question 3

Believed that education should produce moral subjects

Answer 3

Both

Question 4

Emphasized careful and thoughtful ritual as a way of developing righteous behaviour

Answer 4

Confucius

Question 5

Advocated for the teaching of the following virtues trustworthiness, respect and caring for parents, loyalty, ritual, and bravery

Answer 5

Confucius

Question 6

Advocated for the teaching of the following virtues: courage, justice, modesty, science, philosophic wisdom, and intuitive reason

Answer 6

Aristotle

Question 7

Socrates wrote The Republic in which he argues for his vision of a just society.

Answer 7

False

Question 8

The Republic argues that some people are more naturally suited to be leaders of people and they should be educated differently.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

The Republic argues that the rulers should never lie to their subjects under any circumstances.

Answer 9

False

Question 10

Socrates, in The Republic, argues that students should hear only good and moral stories from their teachers and not stories in which the God’s played tricks or lied. →

Answer 10

True

Question 11

The study of what counts as a good reason for what, and why.

Answer 11

Logic

Question 12

A/an _______________ provides reasons to support a conclusion.

Answer 12

Premise

Question 13

A/an ________________ should be logically connected to the premise (also spelled premiss).

Answer 13

Conclusion

Question 14

A/an ____________ is a ‘A bit of reasoning’ formed by the connection of premises to conclusions and the drawing of conclusions from premises.

Answer 14

Inference

Question 15

If there are no situations in which a premise is true and the conclusion is not, we can say that the inference has _________________. ,

Answer 15

Deductive Validity

Question 16

When a conclusion logically follows from a premise, it is considered __________.

Answer 16

Valid

Question 17

A/an _______________ provides reasons to support a conclusion.

Answer 17

Premise

Question 18

A/an ________________ should be logically connected to the premise (also spelled premiss).

Answer 18

Conclusion

Question 19

A/an ____________ is a ‘A bit of reasoning’ formed by the connection of premises to conclusions and the drawing of conclusions from premises.

Answer 19

Inference

Question 20

If there are no situations in which a premise is true and the conclusion is not, we can say that the inference has _________________.

Answer 20

Deductive Validity

Question 21

When a conclusion logically follows from a premise, it is considered __________.

Answer 21

Valid

Question 22

To develop a better understanding of your own perspectives by better understanding what a rationale argument looks like. That is, arguments are studied to.

Answer 22

Develop critical thinking / logic

Question 23

To persuade others as to your point of view by arguing your point of view convincingly. That is, arguments are studied to

Answer 23

Persuade others

Question 24

To foster consensus and agreement by clearly articulating your perspectives while better understanding others’ perspectives. That is, arguments are studied to

Answer 24

nurture consensus

Question 25

Of the three possible reasons Feldman (2009) proposes for teaching students to analyze arguments, which one does he end up proposing is the best reason?

Answer 25

To develop rational understanding

Question 26

True or False: According to Feldman (2009), students are increasingly resistant to the idea that questions of morality can be debated as these students would prefer to remain tolerant and open-minded.

Answer 26

True

Question 27

True or False: Feldman (2009) believes moral questions–questions about how people ought to live–are the kinds of things one can debate reasonably and are not simply matters of taste.

Answer 27

True

Question 28

When someone presents a weaker version of your argument and then attacks that weaker version.

Answer 28

→ straw man fallacy,

Question 29

When someone introduces another issue that is not really related to your argument, often as a rebuttal.

Answer 29

→ red herring

Question 30

When someone tries to provide support for a conclusion but that support can only be believed if one already accepts the conclusion, for example, “the bible is the word of god because the bible says so”.

Answer 30

→ begging the question

Question 31

“A critical thinker is one who is appropriately moved by reasons, and […] critical thinking is BLANK which appropriately reflects the power and convicting force of reasons.”

Answer 31

Thinking

Question 32

Inquiry is “the activity of investigating matters relevant to responsible

Answer 32

Belief, judgment and action.

Question 33

Inquiry is in this basic way univocal. It involves the creation and BLANK examination of reasons and their power to warrant hypotheses;

Answer 33

Critical

Question 34

and it results, ideally, in [], [] and [] which conform to the results of such [critical] examination.”

Answer 34

Belief, judgment and action