PHIL 101 COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Consistency between beliefs is important because ________. - ✔✔It is important to
avoid contradictions
✔✔Why is the "Garden of Eden" stage of thinking unsustainable? ________ -
✔✔People realize that authorities may be unreliable
✔✔Which is the most significant hallmark of the "Stage 3" critical thinker? __________ -
✔✔Evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of various theories
✔✔The role of premises in an argument is to ________. - ✔✔Give reasons for a
conclusion
✔✔A deductive argument's purpose is to ________. - ✔✔Prove that a conclusion is true
✔✔An argumentative fallacy is _______. - ✔✔Not deductively valid
✔✔Ancient Greek stories of the gods served most importantly to _______. -
✔✔Establish core values
✔✔The significance of the polis in ancient Greek philosophy was as a place _______. -
✔✔For justice to be established
✔✔The pre-Socratic philosophers were mainly interested in _______. - ✔✔The ultimate
nature of reality
✔✔The Socratic method is mainly a method of _______. - ✔✔Questioning
✔✔Socrates thought of himself as an intellectual "midwife" because _______. - ✔✔He
helped people know what they thought
, ✔✔Socrates believed that _______. - ✔✔He was not wise
✔✔The sophists were basically _______. - ✔✔Rhetoricians
✔✔Irony is used in dialogue in order to _______. - ✔✔Create more than one level of
meaning
✔✔Thrasymachus thought that "might makes right" because _______. - ✔✔Justice is
defined by whoever has the most power
✔✔Why did Socrates think people need a "physician of the soul"? ________. - ✔✔They
have inadequate knowledge
✔✔To value living an "examined life" assumes that _______. - ✔✔The truth lies within
each of us
✔✔Socrates thought that "there is no teaching, only remembering" because _______. -
✔✔People can arrive at truths without being directly told them
✔✔Socrates thought that no one knowingly does evil because _______. - ✔✔Everyone
is naturally drawn towards the good
✔✔What does Socrates say to defend himself against the charges of Meletus?
________. - ✔✔If he is intentionally trying to deceive the young, he must be trying to
hurt himself
✔✔Socrates was an archetypal thinker in that he _______. - ✔✔Probed the
consequences of beliefs
✔✔Socrates thought that the soul is immortal because it _______. - ✔✔Is
unchangeable
✔✔Plato had a concept of a three-part self constituted by the elements of _______. -
✔✔Reason, appetite, and spirit
✔✔Plato likened the soul to a chariot because _______. - ✔✔It has two horses with
independent wills
✔✔St. Augustine's views on the self _______. - ✔✔Incorporated the Platonist view of
the self as a separate immaterial thing
✔✔What was René Descartes' overall philosophical project? _______. - ✔✔To build
knowledge on a foundation he could be absolutely certain of
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Consistency between beliefs is important because ________. - ✔✔It is important to
avoid contradictions
✔✔Why is the "Garden of Eden" stage of thinking unsustainable? ________ -
✔✔People realize that authorities may be unreliable
✔✔Which is the most significant hallmark of the "Stage 3" critical thinker? __________ -
✔✔Evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of various theories
✔✔The role of premises in an argument is to ________. - ✔✔Give reasons for a
conclusion
✔✔A deductive argument's purpose is to ________. - ✔✔Prove that a conclusion is true
✔✔An argumentative fallacy is _______. - ✔✔Not deductively valid
✔✔Ancient Greek stories of the gods served most importantly to _______. -
✔✔Establish core values
✔✔The significance of the polis in ancient Greek philosophy was as a place _______. -
✔✔For justice to be established
✔✔The pre-Socratic philosophers were mainly interested in _______. - ✔✔The ultimate
nature of reality
✔✔The Socratic method is mainly a method of _______. - ✔✔Questioning
✔✔Socrates thought of himself as an intellectual "midwife" because _______. - ✔✔He
helped people know what they thought
, ✔✔Socrates believed that _______. - ✔✔He was not wise
✔✔The sophists were basically _______. - ✔✔Rhetoricians
✔✔Irony is used in dialogue in order to _______. - ✔✔Create more than one level of
meaning
✔✔Thrasymachus thought that "might makes right" because _______. - ✔✔Justice is
defined by whoever has the most power
✔✔Why did Socrates think people need a "physician of the soul"? ________. - ✔✔They
have inadequate knowledge
✔✔To value living an "examined life" assumes that _______. - ✔✔The truth lies within
each of us
✔✔Socrates thought that "there is no teaching, only remembering" because _______. -
✔✔People can arrive at truths without being directly told them
✔✔Socrates thought that no one knowingly does evil because _______. - ✔✔Everyone
is naturally drawn towards the good
✔✔What does Socrates say to defend himself against the charges of Meletus?
________. - ✔✔If he is intentionally trying to deceive the young, he must be trying to
hurt himself
✔✔Socrates was an archetypal thinker in that he _______. - ✔✔Probed the
consequences of beliefs
✔✔Socrates thought that the soul is immortal because it _______. - ✔✔Is
unchangeable
✔✔Plato had a concept of a three-part self constituted by the elements of _______. -
✔✔Reason, appetite, and spirit
✔✔Plato likened the soul to a chariot because _______. - ✔✔It has two horses with
independent wills
✔✔St. Augustine's views on the self _______. - ✔✔Incorporated the Platonist view of
the self as a separate immaterial thing
✔✔What was René Descartes' overall philosophical project? _______. - ✔✔To build
knowledge on a foundation he could be absolutely certain of
