Lecture 4

Question 1

Spinoza was a ________

Answer 1

Monist

Question 2

Leibniz was a _________

Answer 2

Dualist

Question 3

What were the points in Spinoza’s rejection of dualism?

Answer 3

Dual aspect monism
Pantheism
Deductive method

Question 4

What is dual aspect monism?

Answer 4

Equivalence of mind and matter

Question 5

___________ in the inseperability of nature and God.

Answer 5

Pantheism

Question 6

Define Spinoza’s deductive method?

Answer 6

Start with a small number of principles regarded as self evident, and use them to arrive at other true statements.

Question 7

___________ says is humans are part of nature, then all aspects of human experience are determined.

Answer 7

Determinism

Question 8

Define freedom

Answer 8

consists in knowing that all events have causes, and living one’s life in pursuit of the knowledge of the causes of things.

Question 9

___________ says good and evil are nothing more than the experiences of pleasure and pain.

Answer 9

Hedonism

Question 10

Define psychic determinism.

Answer 10

Spinoza’s monist solution to the mind body problem implies that mental experiences are subject to natural laws and can be studied in the same way as the physical world.

Question 11

What important contribution did Leibniz give to Philosophy?

Answer 11

Psychophysical parallelism

Question 12

What is psychophysical parallelism?

Answer 12

Dualist solution to mind body problem
There is a close correlation between mental and physical events, but physical events don’t interact with or influence mental events.

Question 13

Who proposed Monadology and what’s the definition?

Answer 13

Anton von Leeuwenhoek, monads are indivisible units that make up the universe (rational, sentient, simple)

Question 14

Nativism (the mind is like a block of veined marble), apperceptions and minute perceptions were all started by who?

Answer 14

Leibniz