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Test 3 Part 1 Flashcards

1
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According to Kant, any future metaphysics will have to be based upon an analysis of the mind’s operations.

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True

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According to Kierkegaard, the most poignant moments in life are personal, when we becomes aware of ourselves as a part of objective reality.

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False

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According to Nietzsche, God is dead.

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True

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For Schopenhauer willing and ______ are not two different things but rather one and the same thing.

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Action

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According to Hegel, moral duty derives from the requirement of identifying a person’s individual will with the universal will.

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True

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As a metaphysical theory idealism in general is the view that the universe is composed solely of mental – or spiritual- things; there is no material stuff.

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True

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According to Hegel we express our freedom most concretely by an act of:

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Will

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The initial rigor of positivism is suggested by Comte’s clear statement that “any proposition which does not admit of being ultimately reduced to a simple enunciation of fact, special or general, can have no real or intelligible sense.”

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True

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According to Kant, almost nothing can be known for certain.

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False

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Which of the following is a true statement about the will to power?

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None of These

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Hegel believed that everything that is, is knowable.

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True

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12
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Utilitarianism can be defined as an ethical theory associated with Bentham and Mill that an action is morally good if it produces as much good as or more good than any alternative behavior.

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True

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13
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According to Hegel, in religion universal spirit exists in the form of what?

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Feeling and pictorial imaginative thinking

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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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In Kant’s view, it is the world that shapes the mind, rather than vice versa.

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False

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16
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What was Mill’s purpose in writing his famous essay on Utilitarianism?

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To defend the principle of utility.

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17
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According to Marx, the ownership of property divides the society between those who have and those who do not.

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True

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For Kierkegaard, what is “out there” can be known with “an objective certainty.”

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False

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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

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Schopenhauer portrays the realm of nature as a fierce struggle where the will to live inevitably produces conflict and destruction.

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True

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21
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The categorical imperative

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forbids manipulation of others for our own purposes.

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22
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According to Kant, the only unqualified good thing in the world is a good will.

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True

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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

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According to Nietzsche, one of the overman’s greatest accomplishments is self-transformation.

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True

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25
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According to Bentahm,

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punishment should not be inflected in four particular situations.

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26
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A Superperson, as Nietzsche portrays him,

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remains faithful to the earth.

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27
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Morality for Kant is, therefore, an aspect of rationality and has to do with our consciousness of rules or “laws” of behavior which we consider universal and necessary.

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True

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28
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The scientific study of society is called psychology.

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False

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29
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Kant is a moral relativist, one who holds that there are no absolute moral values.

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False

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30
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According to Kant, it is possible to have all our good actions fail and still be a good person.

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True

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According to Schopenhauer a person could achieve periodic moments of happiness is he reduced

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Human Desire

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According to Schopenhauer, the will to live has no other purpose than to continue the life cycle of life.

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True

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33
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According to Kant, space is not a concept learned from sense experience but a concept that makes sense experience possible.

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True

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34
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Who was the ablest advocate of utilitarianism?

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Mill

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35
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Kierkegaard underscored that even when we have knowledge we are still in the predicament of having to make a decision.

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True

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36
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According to Nietzsche, all of life is driven by the will to power.

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True

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37
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According to Kant, nature gives its laws to the mind.

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False

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38
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Which phioloopher had a long romance wih Harriet Taylor?

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Mill

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39
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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

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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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41
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According to Schopenhauer, I do not know a more real world than the I one I perceive.

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True

42
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According to Schopenhauer, mathematical objects within realm of PRS explains being.

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True

43
Q

Which philosoper was called the founder of positive philosophy?

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Comte

44
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Nietzsche was born and died in which of the following centuries?

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Nineteenth

45
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Which of the following statements would Kant agree with?

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Will is nothing but practical reason

46
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Kant held that our minds are structured in such a way that we are forever barred from going beyond the realm of sense experience; that is, the realm of phenomena.

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True

47
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According to Nietzsche, the greatest people are those who serve God.

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False

48
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Mill defends the notion of individual freedom by saying that:

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As long as others are not harmed by our conduct, then we should be free to engage in almost any activity we please, without government interference.

49
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Comte’s chief objective was the total reorganization of society by developing a science of society.

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True

50
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According to Kant, Newtonian science is not a description of ultimate reality.

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True

51
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a philosopher from what country?

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Germany

52
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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

53
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Comte’s chief objective was the total reorganization of _______?

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Society

54
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According to Kant, only a wise individual can have a truly good will.

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False

55
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According to Marx, change means the emergence of new structures and novel forms.

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True

56
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According to Kant, the moral universe compels us to postulate the existence of God as the ground for the necessary connection between virtue and happiness.

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True

57
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According to this theory, moral actions are those which produce the greatest good for the greatest number of people.

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Utilitarian

58
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What was Mill’s moral theory of utilitarianism?

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General Happiness

59
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According to Kierkegaard, only a person who is engaged in conscious activity of will and choice can be truly said to exist.

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True

60
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Which of the following statements is consistent with Mill’s philosophy?

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The quality of a pleasure is more important than the quantity of a pleasure.

61
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According to Hegel, what are the four specific periods of historical development?

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Oriental, Greek, Roman, and Germanic

62
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Marxism holds that there is a fundamental “contradiction within the very essence of things” causing the dialectic movement.

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True

63
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According to positivism, we should reject any investigation that does not rest on what?

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Direct Observation

64
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In Kant’s view, to be moral individuals, our will should obey our inclinations.

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False

65
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According to Nietzsche, the old way is the good way.

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False

66
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I am autonomous in the realm of morality in the sense that

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I am a legislator of the moral law for myself

67
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According to Hegel, Absolute Spirit of Mind is God.

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True

68
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According to Kant, both Aristotle and Plato shared a copy model of knowledge.

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True

69
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According to Hegel, God is the whole of reality, therefore he is a dualist.

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False

70
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According to Marx, all things are related to each other causally; nothing floats freely, therefore there is free will.

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False

71
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Positivism says we should reject any investigation that does not rest on direct observation.

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True

72
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Which was an issue for Comte?

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How to maintain social unity

73
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According to Nietzsche, God does not exist.

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True

74
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Bentham argued that ethical hedonism is the opposite of psychological hedonism.

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False

75
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According to Kant, the twelve categories of the understanding are innate ideas.

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False

76
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Schopenhauer says, “men are only apparently drawn from in front; really, they are pushed from behind; it is not life that tempts them on, but necessity that drives them forward.”

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True

77
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According to Nietzsche, there is no such thing as Christian sin.

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True

78
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According to Kant, the mind can know truths independently of the senses.

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False

79
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In Mill’s view, physical pleasures are lower, or less desirable, than mental pleasures.

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True

80
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According to Marx, the material order consists of (1) the factors of production and (2) the relations of production.

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True

81
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Hegel believed that religion and philosophy have basically the same subject matter, that both represent “knowledge of that which is eternal, of what God is, and what flows out of his nature,” so that “region and philosophy come to the same thing.”

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True

82
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According to Schopenhauer, the self within the realm of PRS explains the law of motivation.

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True

83
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According to Schopenhauer there are four types of objects that give rise to different kinds of ideas, which of these is not an idea stated by him?

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Reason

84
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In Mill’s view, a morally right action is an action that promotes happiness.

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True

85
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Kant is a nonconsequentialist.

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True

86
Q

Jeremy Bentham showed early signs of

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Unusual intelectual abilities

87
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According to Nietzsche, the overman is the individual in the state who has the greatest power over others.

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False

88
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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

89
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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.

90
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According to Kant, the mind gives its laws to nature.

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True

91
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Hegel centered his thought around the notion of Spirit or Mind.

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True

92
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In Nietzsche’s view, Plato’s dualistic metaphysics provided a correct model of reality.

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False

93
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Truth, Kierkegaard said, is objective.

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False

94
Q

According to Hegel, what are the two names given to consciousness?

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The Master and the Bondsman

95
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The key question for a nonconsequentialist, according to the Kant, is “What is the moral rule that a choice must obey?”

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True

96
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According to Mill, all pleasures are equally pleasurable.

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False

97
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Kant’s categorical imperative states that one should “act as though the maxim of your will should by your action become a universal law.”

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False

98
Q

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

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4

99
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The supreme principle of morality, Kant tells us,

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forbids applying rules to others we don’t apply to ourselves.

100
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John Stuart Mill lived all his adult life in Germany.

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False

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