Exam 3

Question 0

According to Descartes the method for the discovery of “Truth” is analytic. Which of the following is/are not a rule?

Answer 0

Make enumerations that are so specific so as to prove certainty of things only

Question 1

According to Spinoza which of the following concepts does not fit within the bounds of a contracted governments rights for a “just exercise of sovereign power?”

Answer 1

Freedom guided by Reason

Question 2

According to Spinoza “infinite substance must have [what]?”

Answer 2

Infinity of attributes

Question 3

According to Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy (2nd Meditation), which of the following is not a description of what type of thing am “I?”

Answer 3

Unthinking

Question 4

According to Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy (2nd Meditation), what type(s) of “Actions” are not attributed to the “Soul?”

Answer 4

Dreams

Question 5

According to Spinoza’s Ethic (Part I, Prop. VII & VIII), which of the following does not apply to the “Nature of Substance?”

Answer 5

Its essence necessarily involves non-existence

Question 6

According to Descartes which of the following is not true when speaking of “Mind” and “Matter?”

Answer 6

Mind and Matter are two clearly distinct uncreated substances

Question 7

According to Spinoza’s Ethic (Part II, Prop. I-VI), which of the following is not an attribute of “God?”

Answer 7

Finitude

Question 8

According to Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy (1st Meditation), what should we never trust because we are constantly “Deceived?”

Answer 8

Senses

Question 9

According to Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy (3rd Meditation), which of the following is not proof that God “Exists?”

Answer 9

I know God through faith

Question 10

According to Spinoza’s line of thought which of the following are considered to make a valid statement?

Answer 10

The whole of God or Nature in its attribute of extension

Question 11

According to Spinoza’s Ethic (Part II, Prop. X), which of the following is not an attribute of “Man?”

Answer 11

Man necessarily exists from Substance

Question 12

According to Spinoza which is one of his “inalienable rights?”

Answer 12

The freedom on inward piety

Question 13

According to Descartes what “is perceived as true every time a mind thinks?”

Answer 13

I think, therefore I am

Question 14

According to Locke which of the following concepts do not apply to “Man?”

Answer 14

Innate Ideas

Question 15

According to Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Book I.1.8) which does not represent an “Idea?”

Answer 15

Extension

Question 16

According to Hume which of the following concepts is/are not encompassed within “Impressions?”

Answer 16

Ideas

Question 17

According to Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Part II), which of the following best describes his “Cause and Effect” analogy?

Answer 17

Architect: House

Question 18

According to Locke which of the following are not representative of “Secondary Qualities?”

Answer 18

Number

Question 19

According to Hume what is the origin of the idea of “Causality?”

Answer 19

None can be discovered

Question 20

According to Locke which are the “Dispositional Qualities?”

Answer 20

Solubility, Fragility, Flammability

Question 21

According to Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Part II), which of the following is most valid about the humans and God?

Answer 21

Humans have no experience of divine attributes and operations

Question 22

According to Locke which of the following is one of his “Three Main Reasons” for rejecting innate ideas?

Answer 22

Children and Idiots do not seem to possess them

Question 23

According to Locke what is the chief reason why a government is established?

Answer 23

Private Property

Question 24

According to Locke which of the following theories processes the external world and transforms it into “Mental Events?”

Answer 24

Causal Theory of Perception

Question 25

According to Hume what can ultimately be known by Man?

Answer 25

Nothing

Question 26

According to Hume why can our “Beliefs” not be rationally justified?

Answer 26

Based upon Imagination

Question 27

According to Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Part II), which of the following best describes his “Design Argument?”

Answer 27

The universe must have been created by an infinite mind

Question 28

According to Kant’s Foundation for the Metaphysics of Morals (Chap. I) what is the “Categorical Imperative?”

Answer 28

Act only according to a principle that can be universalized

Question 29

According to Kant’s Foundation for the Metaphysics of Morals (Chap. I) of what is the “Will” equivalent?

Answer 29

Practical Reason

Question 30

According to Kant how should Man treat “Rational Beings?”

Answer 30

As ends in themselves and never merely as means

Question 31

According to Kant’s Foundation for the Metaphysics of Morals (Chap. II) which of the following is “the sole principle of ethics?”

Answer 31

Autonomy

Question 32

According to Kant all “Knowledge” arises out of which of the following?

Answer 32

Experience, Reason, and the Mind

Question 33

According to Kant what is the basis of “Human Dignity?”

Answer 33

The Will

Question 34

According to Kant’s Foundation for the Metaphysics of Morals (Chap. I) what is the only thing good without qualification?

Answer 34

Good Will

Question 35

According to Marx in Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts which is not a tenet of establishing “Communism?”

Answer 35

Allow old folks their own private property

Question 36

According to Marx what prevents human beings from reaching their “full potential?”

Answer 36

Capitalism

Question 37

According to Marx what is the first thing to happen when the “Bourgeoisie” is overthrown?

Answer 37

A Dictatorship is established

Question 38

According to Marx in The German Ideology what is not a component or by-product of “Big Industry?”

Answer 38

Big Industry” does not force labour to alienate workers

Question 39

According to Marx in Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts which is not a “Power of Money?”

Answer 39

I am a honest man without money, I am honored as a man with riches

Question 40

According to Marx what is the human beings “full potential?”

Answer 40

Self-determining beings

Question 41

According to Marx in Towards a Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right what is not stated about “Religion?”

Answer 41

It is the feeling of the heart-felt world

Question 42

According to Hobbes “Knowledge” is derived from what “Thing?”

Answer 42

Sense Experience

Question 43

According to Hobbes’ Levithan or The Matter, Form & Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil (PART 2 - Of Commonwealth - Chap. 17 - Of the Causes, Generation, and Definition of a Commonwealth), what type of “agreement” is made between men?

Answer 43

Covenant

Question 44

According to Hobbes what arises out of “Fear and Ignorance?”

Answer 44

Religion

Question 45

According to Hobbes’ Levithan or The Matter, Form & Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil (PART 1 - Of Man - Chap. 13 - Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning their Felicity and Misery) “in the nature of man” we find which is one of the “three principal causes of quarrel?”

Answer 45

Glory

Question 46

According to Hobbes’ Levithan or The Matter, Form & Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil (PART 1 - Of Man - Chap. 2 - Of Imagination), what is “imagination?”

Answer 46

Decaying sense

Question 47

According to Hobbes what are synonymous with “Good and Evil?”

Answer 47

Like: Dislike

Question 48

According to Hobbes’ Levithan or The Matter, Form & Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil which most closely represents the “State of Nature?”

Answer 48

Survival of the Fittest

Question 49

According to Hobbes what is the only thing to “Exist?”

Answer 49

Matter