PHILOSOPHY multiple choice

INTRO TO PHILOSOPHY

SPRING 2014

FINALS

Match the terms-Each correct answer is worth 5 points.

1. Hume said that our knowledge consists of

A) Primary Qualities.

B) Secondary Qualities

C) Impressions and Ideas.

2. For Socrates a process of reasoning through questions and answers leading one to knowledge

A) Intuition

B) Dialectic method

C) Epistemology

3. “I think therefore I am”( Cogito ergo sum) was said by this philosopher, who attempted to prove his own existence through doubt and reason.

A) Descartes

B) Hume

C) Kant

4. Leibniz said that we are

A) Truths of Reasoning

B) Rational Beings

C) Monads.

5. This philosopher said that practicing the Golden means or the “the means between two extremes” is the way to achieve Arete or personal virtue.

A) Plato

B) Aquinas

C) Aristotle.

6. This ancient philosopher taught that all things in this world is patterned after unchanging and eternal Forms or Ideas.

A) Epicurus

B) Socrates

C) Plato

7. This medieval philosopher formulated Five Proofs of God’s Existence

A) Anslem

B) Augustine

C) Aquinas

8. The field of Philosophy that studies the value judgements of Good and Evei, including moral obligations.

A) Epistemology

B) Ethics

C) Metaphysics

9. Kant called them modes of Intuition.

A) Unity and Plurality

B) Space and Time

C) Reciprocity.

10. Philosophical view that our knowledge is derived from Reason and not from experience.

A) Existentialism

B) Rationalism

C) Utilitarianism.

11. This existential philosopher spoke of taking a “Leap of Faith”, while discussing the Existence of God.

A) Nietzsche

B) Kant

C) Kierkegaard.

12. This philosophical school of thought taught that human beings cannot control events, but each person can control one’s own emotions and expectations to live a life of virtue and serenity.

A) Cynicism

B) Skepticism

C) Stoicism.

13. This medieval thinker authored the classic work, “ The City of God ”

A) Anslem

B) Aquinas

C) Augustine.

14. The quote “Unexamined life is not worth living” was attributed to this philosopher.

A) Socrates

B) Plato

C) Parmenides

15. Immanuel Kant wrote of moral law based on duty and good will that bids us to act in such a way, that the principle of our action become the Universal Law. He described this Law as

A) Dogma

B) Atomism

C) Categorical Imperative.

16. The field of Philosophy concerned with the Ultimate Nature of Reality.

A) Epistemology

B) Ethics

C) Metaphysics.

17. Plato emphasized the importance of moral education, justice and the ideal state in his masterpiece

A) The Symposium

B) The Republic

C) Phaedo

18. The view that all knowledge of facts arises from sense experiences and not from Reason

A) Absolutism

B) Epicureanism

C) Empiricism.

19. St. Thomas Aquinas wrote that both Faith and Reason were necessary in one’s search for the Ultimate Truth in this book.

A) Confessions

B) City Of God

C) Summa Theologica

20. Utilitarianism propounded that an Act that promotes “The Greatest Happiness for the Greatest number of people” was Good. This theory was made popular by

A) Kant

B) Hume

C) John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham.