Philosphy

 

 

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QUESTION 1

1. The branch of philosophy that studies human knowledge is _____________________.

4 points   

QUESTION 2

1. When studying philosophy, we rely more on observation than on reason.

 True

 False

4 points   

QUESTION 3

1. The famous problem of _________, presented by atheistic argument, refers to the challenge of reconciling belief in an omnipotent, benevolent, and omniscient God, with the existence of evil and suffering in the world. 

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QUESTION 4

1. In Vedic cosmology, the universe is comprised of how many vertically arranged planetary systems?

	a.	Three
	b.	Fourteen
	c.	Seven
	d.	Thirty-four

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QUESTION 5

1. Atheism can also be defined as a psychological state.

 True

 False

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QUESTION 6

1. The word philosophy means ___________ of knowledge

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QUESTION 7

1. Two types of agnosticism are strong and weak.

 True

 False

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QUESTION 8

1. The historical figure of Socrates is understood in part through the writings of Parmenides and Heraclitus.

 True

 False

4 points   

QUESTION 9

1. Neuroscience experiments have shown that brain activity occurred how many seconds before a conscious choice was made?

 

	a.	Seven
	b.	Thirteen
	c.	Four
	d.	Ten

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QUESTION 10

1. The philosopher David Hume was an atheist.

 True

 False

4 points   

QUESTION 11

1. Plato was more interested in metaphysics and epistemology than in the study of ethical and social philosophy that his mentor Socrates had taught.

 True

 False

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QUESTION 12

1. The branch of philosophy that studies the nature of art and beauty is ___________.

4 points   

QUESTION 13

1. In Aristotelian metaphysics, the most basic reality, or first principle of being, is that everything must be classifiable as some kind of thing in order to be a thing at all.  

 True

 False

4 points   

QUESTION 14

1. In the cosmological consideration of multiverses and time travel, a causality paradox would occur if the consequences of an event could seen prior to the cause of the event.

 True

 False

4 points   

QUESTION 15

1. The branch of philosophy that studies being and existence is _________________.

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QUESTION 16

1. Plato's metaphysics were based on his theory of the forms which stated that only ideas captured the true nature of reality; this was known as materialism while Aristotle's metaphysical position that reality is found within the natural world is called idealism.

 True

 False

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QUESTION 17

1. Metaphysics has been attacked as futile and vague by some philosophers, who claim that metaphysical statements cannot be verified or proven.  Which of the following philosophers have been critical of the study of metaphysics?

	a.	David Hume
	b.	A. J. Ayers
	c.	Immanuel Kant
	d.	All of the above

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QUESTION 18

1. in Plato's Allegory of the Cave, the prisoners in the cave were chained up and forced to watch:

	a.	Fire
	b.	Puppets
	c.	Shadows
	d.	Direct sunlight

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QUESTION 19

1. Kantian metaphysics distinguishes between the appearance, in other words our experience of things, which he calls the phenomena, and the reality, in other words the things themselves, which he calls the ________________.

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QUESTION 20

1. Aesthetic judgements can also be linked to judgements of 

		economic value
		political value
		moral value
		all of the above

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QUESTION 21

1. The Socratic method is a form of cooperative discussion that involves asking and answering questions in order to stimulate critical thinking and arrive at the truth through elimination of presuppositions.  It is also known as:

		dialectical method
		elenctic method
		method of elenchus
		all of the above

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QUESTION 22

1. Ancient Greek philosophers, in their cosmological theories about the nature of the universe, believed that the universe was infinite.

 True

 False

4 points   

QUESTION 23

1. Postulates and axioms, especially in the context of mathematics, are two terms synonymous with the philosophical concept of first principles.

 True

 False

4 points   

QUESTION 24

1. One of the best-known French existential philosophers is Jean-Paul Sartre, who wrote Being and ________________ to describe the existential view that our existence precedes our essence, and we therefore create our own meaning and purpose in life.

4 points   

QUESTION 25

1. Pascal's _______________ is a philosophical argument presented by the seventeenth century scholar Blaise Pascal, who theorizes that human beings bet with their lives whether or not God exists.

4 points