UTS Week 1

Question 1

I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Answer 1

Socrates

Question 2

Know thyself
Question everything
Only the pursuit of Goodness bring Happiness
Socratic Method

Answer 2

Socrates

Question 3

Notion of happiness in Greek philosophy applies arete - “virtue” or “excellence”

Answer 3

Plato

Question 4

Anything that has a characteristic use, function, or activity has a virtue or excellence.

Answer 4

Plato

Question 5

Tripartite Soul

Answer 5

Plato

Question 6

Desires to exert reason and attain rational decisions

Answer 6

Rational part (ruling class)

Question 7

desires supreme honor

Answer 7

Spirited part (military class)

Question 8

desires bodily pleasures such as food, drink, sex, etc.

Answer 8

Appetite part (commoner)

Question 9

Claim to be the founder or logic which rests primarily on prior analytics

Answer 9

Aristotle

Question 10

Contributed the foundation of symbolic logic and scientific thinking

Answer 10

St Augustine

Question 11

The best way to gain knowledge was through natural philosophy which we now call science.

Answer 11

St Augustine

Question 12

Happiness, which is dependent in an individual’s virtue, is the central purpose of human life and a goal in itself

Answer 12

St Augustine

Question 13

The Self is defined as a subject that thinks

Answer 13

Rene Descartes

Question 14

The self that has full competence in the powers of human reason.

Answer 14

Rene Descartes

Question 15

Personal identity is a matter of psychological continuity

Answer 15

John Locke

Question 16

Personal identity (or the self) is founded on consciousness.

Answer 16

John Locke

Question 17

Identity over time is fixed by awareness of the past

Answer 17

John Locke

Question 18

Posits an “empty” mind, a tabula rasa, which is shaped by experience, and sensations and reflections being the two sources of all our ideas.

Answer 18

John Locke

Question 19

“We can only conclude that there is no good reason for believing that the self exists”

Answer 19

David Hume

Question 20

The self is nothing over and above a constantly varying bundle of experiences

Answer 20

David Hume

Question 21

Consciousness is the central feature of the self.

Answer 21

Immanuel Kant

Question 22

The consciousness is divided into internal self and external self

Answer 22

Immanuel Kant

Question 23

Composed of psychological states and informed decisions.

Answer 23

Internal self

Question 24

Made up of ourselves and the physical world

Answer 24

External self

Question 25

The self continues from childhood to adulthood

Answer 25

Sigmund freud

Question 26

Personality is determined by childhood experiences

Answer 26

Sigmund freud

Question 27

personality is largely unconscious

Answer 27

Sigmund freud

Question 28

Structure of the self

Answer 28

Id, ego, superego

Question 29

Animalistic self, pleasure principle

Answer 29

Id

Question 30

Executive self, reality principle

Answer 30

Ego

Question 31

Conscience, morality principle

Answer 31

Superego

Question 32

Rejects theory that mental states are separable from physical states.

Answer 32

Gilbert Ryle

Question 33

Philosophical behaviourism

Answer 33

Gilbert Ryle

Question 34

He argued that philosophers do not need a hidden principle to explain the supra mechanical capacities of humans

Answer 34

Gilbert Ryle

Question 35

Existentialism

Answer 35

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Question 36

Consciousness, the world, and the human body as a perceiving thing are intricately intertwined and mutually engaged.

Answer 36

Maurice Merleau-Ponty