STRAIGHTERLINE INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY 2024-
2025 VERSION FINAL EXAM WITH COMPLETE 150
QUESTIONS AND VERFIED CORRECT ANSWERS/RATED A+
Aristotle's primary area of interest was - ANSWER -
>metaphysics.
Which of the following is not one of the ten basic categories
Aristotle used to describe the ways in which humans think
about things? - ANSWER ->weight
How many souls did Aristotle believe humans have? - ANSWER
->three
Aristotle's works include all of the following except: - ANSWER -
>Nicomachean Ethics
What is a thing, according to Aristotle? - ANSWER ->A specific
form in a particular hunk of matter.
What does Aristotle mean by the efficient cause of a thing? -
ANSWER ->Where it came from.
If you want to say what a thing is, which of Aristotle's four
causes must you provide? - ANSWER ->The formal cause.
What did Aristotle say about all change? - ANSWER ->It is a
movement from potentiality to actuality.
,Which of the following is an example of what Aristotle called a
universal? - ANSWER ->The property of being red.
What is a syllogism? - ANSWER ->A kind of inference.
What is not true of Hinduism? - ANSWER ->It has no scriptures
or holy writings.
What is the central doctrine of the Upanishads? - ANSWER -
>The identity of Brahman and Atman.
What is the main cause of human suffering, according to
Siddhartha Gautama? - ANSWER ->Ignorance and selfish
craving.
Which is not a characteristic of the Tao, for Taoists? - ANSWER -
>Man can improve it.
According to Confucius, this principle governs both the well-
ordered family and the well-ordered state. - ANSWER ->The
principle of the Mean.
Which would Mencius say true happiness consists in? -
ANSWER ->Seeing parents and family alive and well and free
from anxiety.
, What must one do to discover ultimate reality and truth,
according to Hui Neng, sixth patriarch of Ch'an Buddhism? -
ANSWER ->Give up false attachments and selfish interests.
What Mahayana Buddhist view did Murasi Shikibu object to? -
ANSWER ->Women must wait for reincarnation as a male
before they can achieve enlightenment.
Which did Dogen Zenji advocate? - ANSWER ->The Parental
Mind.
What do samurai warriors believe in? - ANSWER ->All of the
above.
Why is diversity a challenge for modern feminism? - ANSWER -
>Race, class, and gender are tied together in ways that make
working-class and minority women disadvantaged in different
ways from middle-class white women.
Why are feminist epistemologists suspicous of the concept of
the ideal knower as dispassionate, objective, and purely
rational? - ANSWER ->This makes the ideal knower rather like
the ideal male.
According to Val Plumwood, how does the rationalistic
framework view the human self? - ANSWER ->As autonomous,
separate, and egoistic.
2025 VERSION FINAL EXAM WITH COMPLETE 150
QUESTIONS AND VERFIED CORRECT ANSWERS/RATED A+
Aristotle's primary area of interest was - ANSWER -
>metaphysics.
Which of the following is not one of the ten basic categories
Aristotle used to describe the ways in which humans think
about things? - ANSWER ->weight
How many souls did Aristotle believe humans have? - ANSWER
->three
Aristotle's works include all of the following except: - ANSWER -
>Nicomachean Ethics
What is a thing, according to Aristotle? - ANSWER ->A specific
form in a particular hunk of matter.
What does Aristotle mean by the efficient cause of a thing? -
ANSWER ->Where it came from.
If you want to say what a thing is, which of Aristotle's four
causes must you provide? - ANSWER ->The formal cause.
What did Aristotle say about all change? - ANSWER ->It is a
movement from potentiality to actuality.
,Which of the following is an example of what Aristotle called a
universal? - ANSWER ->The property of being red.
What is a syllogism? - ANSWER ->A kind of inference.
What is not true of Hinduism? - ANSWER ->It has no scriptures
or holy writings.
What is the central doctrine of the Upanishads? - ANSWER -
>The identity of Brahman and Atman.
What is the main cause of human suffering, according to
Siddhartha Gautama? - ANSWER ->Ignorance and selfish
craving.
Which is not a characteristic of the Tao, for Taoists? - ANSWER -
>Man can improve it.
According to Confucius, this principle governs both the well-
ordered family and the well-ordered state. - ANSWER ->The
principle of the Mean.
Which would Mencius say true happiness consists in? -
ANSWER ->Seeing parents and family alive and well and free
from anxiety.
, What must one do to discover ultimate reality and truth,
according to Hui Neng, sixth patriarch of Ch'an Buddhism? -
ANSWER ->Give up false attachments and selfish interests.
What Mahayana Buddhist view did Murasi Shikibu object to? -
ANSWER ->Women must wait for reincarnation as a male
before they can achieve enlightenment.
Which did Dogen Zenji advocate? - ANSWER ->The Parental
Mind.
What do samurai warriors believe in? - ANSWER ->All of the
above.
Why is diversity a challenge for modern feminism? - ANSWER -
>Race, class, and gender are tied together in ways that make
working-class and minority women disadvantaged in different
ways from middle-class white women.
Why are feminist epistemologists suspicous of the concept of
the ideal knower as dispassionate, objective, and purely
rational? - ANSWER ->This makes the ideal knower rather like
the ideal male.
According to Val Plumwood, how does the rationalistic
framework view the human self? - ANSWER ->As autonomous,
separate, and egoistic.
