PHIL 101 CORRECT FINALS QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Hume's sense experience - ✔✔Real knowledge comes from what we see hear taste
smell or feel
✔✔Hume's bundle theory - ✔✔The mind is only a changing bundle of perceptions
✔✔Descartes' rational self - ✔✔The real self is the thinking rational mind
✔✔Cogito ergo sum - ✔✔I think therefore I am
✔✔Cartesian dualism - ✔✔Descartes' separation between mind and body
✔✔Descartes on the body - ✔✔The body is unreliable because it is ruled by passions
emotions and senses
✔✔John Locke on the self - ✔✔The self is based on memory and consciousness over
time
✔✔Locke's memory theory - ✔✔Personal identity extends as far back as a person can
remember
✔✔Modern individualism - ✔✔The self is defined by independent free decision-making
✔✔Autonomous decision-making - ✔✔The ability to make free self-determined choices
✔✔Jean-Paul Sartre - ✔✔Existentialist philosopher who argued that people create
themselves through choices
✔✔Sartre's self-creation - ✔✔The self is shaped by the choices a person freely makes
, ✔✔Existentialist responsibility - ✔✔People must be intentional and responsible in
creating who they become
✔✔Iconoclastic thinker - ✔✔A thinker who challenges the dominant view and forces
people to question assumptions
✔✔Buddhism as philosophy religion and psychology - ✔✔Buddhism studies reality
spiritual liberation and the workings of consciousness
✔✔Persona - ✔✔A social mask or false face used to play a role
✔✔Social masks - ✔✔Roles people adopt to fit situations and gain approval
✔✔Authentic self - ✔✔The real self underneath social roles and masks
✔✔Danger of masks - ✔✔People can confuse their social role with their real identity
✔✔Neophobia - ✔✔Fear of new or unfamiliar things
✔✔Neophilia - ✔✔Desire for new objects experiences and exploration
✔✔Neophobia and safety - ✔✔Fear of the unknown can protect people from risky
situations
✔✔Neophilia and growth - ✔✔Curiosity about the new can lead to learning confidence
and personal growth
✔✔Security and neophilia - ✔✔A sense of safety helps people explore new experiences
✔✔Encapsulation - ✔✔The condition of being locked inside one's own personal
perception
✔✔In here - ✔✔The inner subjective world of thoughts feelings and experiences
✔✔Out there - ✔✔The external objective world outside the self
✔✔Objectification - ✔✔Treating a subjective experience as if it were an objective fact
✔✔Reification - ✔✔Giving concrete form to an abstract idea
✔✔Personification - ✔✔Giving human traits or intention to nonhuman things
✔✔Aristocentric claims - ✔✔Claims that one person or group is superior to others
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Hume's sense experience - ✔✔Real knowledge comes from what we see hear taste
smell or feel
✔✔Hume's bundle theory - ✔✔The mind is only a changing bundle of perceptions
✔✔Descartes' rational self - ✔✔The real self is the thinking rational mind
✔✔Cogito ergo sum - ✔✔I think therefore I am
✔✔Cartesian dualism - ✔✔Descartes' separation between mind and body
✔✔Descartes on the body - ✔✔The body is unreliable because it is ruled by passions
emotions and senses
✔✔John Locke on the self - ✔✔The self is based on memory and consciousness over
time
✔✔Locke's memory theory - ✔✔Personal identity extends as far back as a person can
remember
✔✔Modern individualism - ✔✔The self is defined by independent free decision-making
✔✔Autonomous decision-making - ✔✔The ability to make free self-determined choices
✔✔Jean-Paul Sartre - ✔✔Existentialist philosopher who argued that people create
themselves through choices
✔✔Sartre's self-creation - ✔✔The self is shaped by the choices a person freely makes
, ✔✔Existentialist responsibility - ✔✔People must be intentional and responsible in
creating who they become
✔✔Iconoclastic thinker - ✔✔A thinker who challenges the dominant view and forces
people to question assumptions
✔✔Buddhism as philosophy religion and psychology - ✔✔Buddhism studies reality
spiritual liberation and the workings of consciousness
✔✔Persona - ✔✔A social mask or false face used to play a role
✔✔Social masks - ✔✔Roles people adopt to fit situations and gain approval
✔✔Authentic self - ✔✔The real self underneath social roles and masks
✔✔Danger of masks - ✔✔People can confuse their social role with their real identity
✔✔Neophobia - ✔✔Fear of new or unfamiliar things
✔✔Neophilia - ✔✔Desire for new objects experiences and exploration
✔✔Neophobia and safety - ✔✔Fear of the unknown can protect people from risky
situations
✔✔Neophilia and growth - ✔✔Curiosity about the new can lead to learning confidence
and personal growth
✔✔Security and neophilia - ✔✔A sense of safety helps people explore new experiences
✔✔Encapsulation - ✔✔The condition of being locked inside one's own personal
perception
✔✔In here - ✔✔The inner subjective world of thoughts feelings and experiences
✔✔Out there - ✔✔The external objective world outside the self
✔✔Objectification - ✔✔Treating a subjective experience as if it were an objective fact
✔✔Reification - ✔✔Giving concrete form to an abstract idea
✔✔Personification - ✔✔Giving human traits or intention to nonhuman things
✔✔Aristocentric claims - ✔✔Claims that one person or group is superior to others
