Midterms

Question 1

Science and technology are responsible for the ways society is continuously being modernized.
(True or False)

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Martin Heidegger envisioned modern technology as a way of revealing—a mode of bringing forth.
(True or False)

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Technology challenges forth because it makes people think how to do things faster, more effectively, and with less effort.
(True or False)

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The dangers of technology lie in how humans let themselves be consumed by it.
(True or False)

Answer 4

True

Question 5

Questioning is a piety of thought. It is only through questioning that humans are able to reassess their position not only in the midst of technology around them but also in the grand scheme of things.
(True or False)

Answer 5

True

Question 6

Which of the following views describes technology as a means to an end?

Answer 6

Instrumental

Question 7

The production or invention of technological equipment, tools and machines, and purpose and functions they serve are what define technology.

Answer 7

Anthropological

Question 8

The act of bringing something out of concealment?

Answer 8

poiesis

Question 9

Which of the following views allows nature to reveal itself without the use of force or violence?

Answer 9

meditative thinking

Question 10

Which of the following Ancient Greek concepts where truth is understood, which can be translated as unclosedness, unconcealedness, or disclosure?

Answer 10

aletheia

Question 11

What is another dasein?

Answer 11

Ontology

Question 12

What is Ontology?

Answer 12

The study of being / human existence

Question 13

What does Seinsvergessenheit mean?

Answer 13

Forgetfulness of being

Question 14

What does Bodenstangigkeit mean?

Answer 14

Rootedness in soil

Question 15

What does Wesensverfassung mean?

Answer 15

Essential constitution

Question 16

Technology is instrumental

True or False

Answer 16

True

Question 17

Technology is an instrument aimed at getting things done

True or False

Answer 17

True

Question 18

is the study of humanity through the application of biology, cultural studies, archaeology, linguistics, and other social sciences.

Answer 18

Anthropology

Question 19

Can also be defined as a human activity because an end and to produce and use a means to an end is, by itself, a human activity

Answer 19

Technology

Question 20

The production or invention of technological equipment, tools and machines, the products, and functions they serve are what define technology
(True or False)

Answer 20

True

Question 21

“The true can only be pursued through the correct”

True or False

Answer 21

True

Question 22

A way of revealing

Answer 22

A mode of bringing forth

Question 23

Bringing something out of concealment

Answer 23

poeisis

Question 24

the truth of that something is revealed

Answer 24

poeisis

Question 25

What does Aletheia

Answer 25

The truth

Question 26

encompasses not only craft but other acts of the mind, and poetry

Answer 26

Techne

Question 27

What are the two types of thinking?

Answer 27

- calculative | - meditative

Question 28

"It is boastful for humans to think that nature needs, to be saved, whereas mother nature would remain even if humans cease to exist" is a phrase stated by...

Answer 28

Paulo Coelho

Question 29

"People are delivered over to technology in the worst possible way when they regard it as something neutral" is a phrase stated by...

Answer 29

Martin Heidegger

Question 30

"But where danger is, grows the saving power also" is a phrase stated by...

Answer 30

Friedrich Holderlin

Question 31

" And art was simply called techne, it was single, manifold revealing" is a phrase stated by...

Answer 31

Martin Heidegger

Question 32

despite being of great importance in our technological world, is a thinking “of a special kind.

Answer 32

Calculative thinking

Question 33

It means to notice, to observe, to ponder, to awaken an awareness of what is actually taking place around us and in us.

Answer 33

Mediative thinking

Question 34

Science must be guided by some ______ ______ that is not dictated by science itself

Answer 34

ethical basis

Question 35

What is good by itself and self-sufficient

Answer 35

Intrinsic Good

Question 36

What is good as a means of achieving something else

Answer 36

instrumental good

Question 37

pleasure | instrumental or intrinsic

Answer 37

instrumental

Question 38

wealth | instrumental or intrinsic

Answer 38

instrumental

Question 39

fame and honor | instrumental or intrinsic

Answer 39

instrumental

Question 40

happiness | instrumental or intrinsic

Answer 40

intrinsic

Question 41

happiness has both virtue and excellence | True or False

Answer 41

True

Question 42

What does Eu in Eudaimonia mean?

Answer 42

Good

Question 43

It means living well and doing well

Answer 43

happiness

Question 44

What does daimon in Eudaimonia mean?

Answer 44

Happiness/ welfare

Question 45

What are the parts of the tripartite soul?

Answer 45

nutritive sensitive rational

Question 46

It is a locomotive perceptive (tripartite soul)

Answer 46

sensitive

Question 47

It is theoretical, practical | tripartite soul

Answer 47

Rational

Question 48

it is growth, nutrition, reproduction (tripartite soul)

Answer 48

nutritive

Question 49

what is/are the part/s of the tripartite soul that humans need

Answer 49

rational sensitive nutritive

Question 50

what is/are the part/s of the tripartite soul that animals need

Answer 50

sensitive | nutritive

Question 51

what is/are the part/s of the tripartite soul that plants need

Answer 51

nutritive

Question 52

Arête means

Answer 52

"excellence of any kind" & "Moral value"

Question 53

A type of virtue that means wisdom and understanding

Answer 53

intellectual value

Question 54

A type of virtue that means habitual practice

Answer 54

moral virtue

Question 55

What are the two types of virtues?

Answer 55

moral virtue | intellectual value

Question 56

For Aristotle, the attainment of good life is the main purpose of human existence (True or False)

Answer 56

true

Question 57

The highest good according to Aristotle is a solitary nucleus, which all other goods are acted upon for; for Aristotle this highest good is __________ (which translates to living well).

Answer 57

happiness or eudaimonia

Question 58

What are three types of friendships according to Aristotle?

Answer 58

those based on utility those based on pleasure or delight those grounded in virtue.

Question 59

Friendship based on ______, people associate for their mutual usefulness. These relationships are the most common.

Answer 59

utility

Question 60

The key intellectual virtues are _______, which governs ethical behavior, and ____________, which is expressed in scientific endeavor and contemplation.

Answer 60

wisdom, understanding

Question 61

Moral virtues are exemplified by courage, temperance, and liberality (True or False)

Answer 61

True

Question 62

Regarding what are the most important virtues, Aristotle proposed the following nine:

Answer 62

``` wisdom prudence justice fortitude courage liberality magnificence magnanimity temperance ```

Question 63

For human beings, ________ is activity of the soul in accordance with arete (excellence, virtue, or what something is good for")

Answer 63

eudaemonia

Question 64

________ the end of life, that to which all things aim, is activity in accordance with reason (the arete or peculiar excellence of a person).

Answer 64

Happiness

Question 65

________ as a moral virtue achieves a mean between wastefulness (deficiency) and greed (excess).

Answer 65

Generosity / Balance

Question 66

According to Aristotle, the intellectual virtues include:

Answer 66

- scientific knowledge (episteme), - artistic or technical knowledge (techne) - intuitive reason (nous) - practical wisdom (phronesis) - philosophic wisdom (sophia).

Question 67

Developments in science and technology are fundamentally altering the way people live, connect, communicate and transact, with profound effects on economic development. (True or False)

Answer 67

True