Part 4

Question 1

Augustine held that human seek happiness as a consequence of our incompleteness and finitude.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

According to Plato, the body is the prison of the soul.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Which was an issue for Comte?

Answer 3

How to maintain social unity.

Question 4

Kierkegaard insists that existence must refer to a quality in the individual, namely his conscious participation in an act.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

According to Hume, the existence of the self can be proved by the senses.

Answer 5

False

Question 6

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

Answer 6

False

Question 7

According to Nietzsche, the values of Christianity should be slightly modified to fit the problems of modern times

Answer 7

False

Question 8

Aristotle defines happiness (eudaemonia) as

Answer 8

activity of the soul in accord with reason

Question 9

Which of the following statements would Hume agree with?

Answer 9

Complex impressions produce complex ideas.

Question 10

Kant argued that both rationalism and empiricism presented inaccurate models of the knowledge process.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

What was Mill’s moral theory of utilitarianism?

Answer 11

General Happiness

Question 12

According to Kant, when you act morally,

Answer 12

you use your reason to deduce your actions from your principles.

Question 13

It is impossible to understand the absolute Truth about anything.

Answer 13

this is an epistemological statement.

Question 14

According to Kant, we must make choices we would want everyone to make.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

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

Answer 15

True

Question 16

The worker’s lives would be terribly dehumanized by what Marx calls “the alienation of labor.”

Answer 16

True

Question 17

Kierkegaard’s supported the concepts of rational knowledge.

Answer 17

False

Question 18

According to Plato, the ideal society would be ruled by a philosopher-king (or queen).

Answer 18

True

Question 19

According to Kant, a good will is one that

Answer 19

Wills to do its duty

Question 20

Simple ideas cannot be created by the mind.

Answer 20

Consistent

Question 21

According to Aristotle, something actual is logically prior to whatever is potentiality.

Answer 21

True

Question 22

Plato was born in Sparta, but when he was a youth his parents moved to Athens.

Answer 22

False

Question 23

According to Berkeley, there is no knowledge in our minds that did not come through our senses.

Answer 23

True

Question 24

Zeno believed in the plurality of things.

Answer 24

False

Question 25

The alteration of anything, the rearrangement of something’s parts, the coming into being of something that did not exist before, and the decline and dissolution of something is called change.

Answer 25

True

Question 26

According to Epictetus, love is the highest virtue.

Answer 26

False

Question 27

Thales's significance is that he was the first greek philosopher.

Answer 27

consistent

Question 28

According to Plato, might makes right.

Answer 28

False

Question 29

Benthasm made an especially impressive use of the principle of utility in connection with

Answer 29

Law and Punishment

Question 30

Augustine believed that all human beings are born essentially good but are corrupted by the sins they commit.

Answer 30

False

Question 31

According to Plato, all of reality is constantly changing.

Answer 31

False

Question 32

The Forms are not

Answer 32

Physical

Question 33

According to Epictetus, nothing can harm a wise person.

Answer 33

True

Question 34

Parmenides is rightly called a rationalist because

Answer 34

he is willing to follow the argument wherever it leads.

Question 35

According to Kierkegaard,only an act of faith can assure me of my personal relationship to God.

Answer 35

True

Question 36

Kant is a nonconsequentialist.

Answer 36

True

Question 37

Aristotle argued that science rests of primary premises, which we arrive at by intellectual intuition.

Answer 37

True

Question 38

The good life was easily obtained to those who studied the teachings of Socrates.

Answer 38

False

Question 39

Nietzsche was insane for the last years of his life.

Answer 39

True

Question 40

We have no direct knowledge of matter.

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consistent

Question 41

Heraclitus was pantheist – a term meaning belief in a transcendent God.

Answer 41

False

Question 42

According to Berkeley, because to be is to be perceived, if all humans died, all reality would vanish (because reality is no longer perceived by anyone).

Answer 42

False

Question 43

Hegel believed that everything that is, is knowable.

Answer 43

True

Question 44

Based on what is known of Thales’ thought, with which of the following statements would he have agreed?

Answer 44

None of the choices

Question 45

The central concern of metaphysics is the study of substance, that is, the essential nature of a thing.

Answer 45

True

Question 46

Augustine was a minor influence in setting the dominant direction and style of Christian wisdom of the Middle Ages.

Answer 46

False

Question 47

Pythagoras was an atheist.

Answer 47

False

Question 48

According to Hume, our senses can never provide us with absolute certainty.

Answer 48

True

Question 49

Aristotle's logic was the standard used in Western philosophy for over two thousand years.

Answer 49

True

Question 50

According to Epictetus, because our free choices shape our destiny, Fate is an illusion.

Answer 50

False