PHIL 101 UPDATED TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Logos - ✔✔Appeal to logic; Ferry states that it came to be identified with Christians;
was the incarnate of Christ
✔✔Pascal's Pensees - ✔✔Collection of fragments on theology and philosophy;
elaborates the reason why it is unworthy to attach yourself to others
✔✔Paul Tillich - ✔✔Stated that faith is the ultimate concern; symbolism; lived through
Nazi Germany
✔✔Ultimate - ✔✔You need something bigger and better than you; It is not knowable in
a regular way, we cannot know this with ordinary reason
✔✔"God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of philosophers and scholars.
Certainty, certainty, heartfelt joy, peace." - ✔✔Blaise Pascal
✔✔Theoria - ✔✔Action in the sense of contemplating; Ferry
✔✔Dr. Michael Puett - ✔✔Professor of Chinese Philosophy; talks about overcoming
yourself; wrote book called "The Way"
✔✔Upanishads - ✔✔A major book in Hinduism that is often in the form of dialogues that
explored the Vedas and the religious issues that they raised; Brahman; "Inner
Controller"; secret doctrines that became revealed; devotional style of writing
✔✔Zarathustra - ✔✔A Persian prophet, traditionally dated to the sixth or seventh
century B.C.E. who founded Zoroastrianism; Ahura Mazda
✔✔Zoroastrianism - ✔✔One of the first monotheistic religions, particularly one with a
wide following. It was central to the political and religious culture of ancient Persia; God
was Ahura Mazda; evil is overcome in the after life
, ✔✔Eastern Dao - ✔✔Set heart and soul into harmony of everything
✔✔Zen - ✔✔Bliss in Buddhism
✔✔Inner Controller - ✔✔In the heart of who you are, there is a self, a self in the way of
Brahman; it is the primary, inner knower
✔✔Ahura Mazda - ✔✔In Zoroastrianism, the good god who rules the world.
✔✔Confucius - ✔✔(551-479 BCE) A Chinese philosopher known also as Kong Fuzi and
created one of the most influential philosophies in Chinese history; ethics of community;
not trying to preserve traditions
✔✔Descartes' 3 Categories of Substance - ✔✔Divine being, human being, natural
being
✔✔Descartes' Two Resulting Concerns - ✔✔Metaphysics of the human substance and
epistemological priority
✔✔Li - ✔✔Confucius; RITUALS, ETIQUETTE
✔✔Te - ✔✔Confucius; MORAL STRENGTH FOR EXCELLENCE
✔✔Jen - ✔✔Confucius; IDEAL PERSON or GENTLEMAN
✔✔Dao - ✔✔Confucius; the WAY/PATH
✔✔Extension - ✔✔Taking up space physically
✔✔"But although any one attribute is sufficient to give us a knowledge of a substance,
there is always one principal property of substance which constitute its nature and
essence, and on which all others depend." - ✔✔Descartes
✔✔"That is this, the Self, the Inner Controller, the Immortal; valueless is anything other."
- ✔✔Upanishads
✔✔"The reason for this transformation of concepts into symbols is the character of
ultimacy and the nature of faith." - ✔✔On The Ultimate Concern by Paul Tillich
✔✔"Truly, if it was once no easy thing to become a Christian, I believe now it becomes
more difficult every year, because by now it has become so easy to become one-one
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Logos - ✔✔Appeal to logic; Ferry states that it came to be identified with Christians;
was the incarnate of Christ
✔✔Pascal's Pensees - ✔✔Collection of fragments on theology and philosophy;
elaborates the reason why it is unworthy to attach yourself to others
✔✔Paul Tillich - ✔✔Stated that faith is the ultimate concern; symbolism; lived through
Nazi Germany
✔✔Ultimate - ✔✔You need something bigger and better than you; It is not knowable in
a regular way, we cannot know this with ordinary reason
✔✔"God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of philosophers and scholars.
Certainty, certainty, heartfelt joy, peace." - ✔✔Blaise Pascal
✔✔Theoria - ✔✔Action in the sense of contemplating; Ferry
✔✔Dr. Michael Puett - ✔✔Professor of Chinese Philosophy; talks about overcoming
yourself; wrote book called "The Way"
✔✔Upanishads - ✔✔A major book in Hinduism that is often in the form of dialogues that
explored the Vedas and the religious issues that they raised; Brahman; "Inner
Controller"; secret doctrines that became revealed; devotional style of writing
✔✔Zarathustra - ✔✔A Persian prophet, traditionally dated to the sixth or seventh
century B.C.E. who founded Zoroastrianism; Ahura Mazda
✔✔Zoroastrianism - ✔✔One of the first monotheistic religions, particularly one with a
wide following. It was central to the political and religious culture of ancient Persia; God
was Ahura Mazda; evil is overcome in the after life
, ✔✔Eastern Dao - ✔✔Set heart and soul into harmony of everything
✔✔Zen - ✔✔Bliss in Buddhism
✔✔Inner Controller - ✔✔In the heart of who you are, there is a self, a self in the way of
Brahman; it is the primary, inner knower
✔✔Ahura Mazda - ✔✔In Zoroastrianism, the good god who rules the world.
✔✔Confucius - ✔✔(551-479 BCE) A Chinese philosopher known also as Kong Fuzi and
created one of the most influential philosophies in Chinese history; ethics of community;
not trying to preserve traditions
✔✔Descartes' 3 Categories of Substance - ✔✔Divine being, human being, natural
being
✔✔Descartes' Two Resulting Concerns - ✔✔Metaphysics of the human substance and
epistemological priority
✔✔Li - ✔✔Confucius; RITUALS, ETIQUETTE
✔✔Te - ✔✔Confucius; MORAL STRENGTH FOR EXCELLENCE
✔✔Jen - ✔✔Confucius; IDEAL PERSON or GENTLEMAN
✔✔Dao - ✔✔Confucius; the WAY/PATH
✔✔Extension - ✔✔Taking up space physically
✔✔"But although any one attribute is sufficient to give us a knowledge of a substance,
there is always one principal property of substance which constitute its nature and
essence, and on which all others depend." - ✔✔Descartes
✔✔"That is this, the Self, the Inner Controller, the Immortal; valueless is anything other."
- ✔✔Upanishads
✔✔"The reason for this transformation of concepts into symbols is the character of
ultimacy and the nature of faith." - ✔✔On The Ultimate Concern by Paul Tillich
✔✔"Truly, if it was once no easy thing to become a Christian, I believe now it becomes
more difficult every year, because by now it has become so easy to become one-one
