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PHIL 101: FINAL EXAM (JMU -
LO
YATES) EXAM QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT DETAILED /
YC
VERIFIED ANSWERS LATEST
UPDATE
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, how philosophy involves cultivating one side of our lives by questioning another - ANS to
cultivate the side of our ideas, reason, etc.
intellectual strength - ANS - agility in perception & thinking
- sloppy, naive prejudices - motivated reasoning
- attempt to harvest better authenticity (healthy intellectual discussion)
practicing the 'love of wisdom': technical matters - ANS - the role of assumptions &
presuppositions (technical term for assumption) - underlying ideas we trust
- criticism & argument
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- philosophy in Greek as 'philein' & 'sophia' (friendship w/ wisdom)
- Queen of the Sciences (philosophy) - concerned w/ truth
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four approaches to doing philosophy: definitions - ANS - trying to articulate clear meanings of
things - wisdom, knowledge, happiness, etc.
- definitional ambition; disagreements along the way
them
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four approaches to doing philosophy: logic & proofs - ANS - take definitions & try to prove
- logistic reasoning; symbolic logic
- way of trying to argue in a reasoned out method
YC
- words can have ethical or non-ethical meanings regardless of context; asks each side to do
more than point fingers
four approaches to doing philosophy: being visionary - ANS - philosophy is constantly in
search of new modes of meaning
- visionary imagination; creative agility
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- artistry in philosophy
four approaches to doing philosophy: focusing on the practical (the moral) - ANS - identifying
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which actions are right or wrong, & on what basis can we claim it
- brings clarity, criticism, & questioning to something always going on (moral judgements)
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common denominators of the four approaches to doing philosophy - ANS - philosophy
challenges us to examine our beliefs & ourselves
- try to live a wise & more authentic life
three features of Athenian life - ANS - city
- education (kids from elite families; shaping future leaders; loosely-organized conversations:
main skill taught is rhetoric)
- Sophists: popular pragmatic teachers of rhetoric; sophisticated & pretentious (Socrates fought
them b/c they had no interest in the actual truth, only in winning arguments)
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PHIL 101: FINAL EXAM (JMU -
LO
YATES) EXAM QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT DETAILED /
YC
VERIFIED ANSWERS LATEST
UPDATE
D
U
ST
, how philosophy involves cultivating one side of our lives by questioning another - ANS to
cultivate the side of our ideas, reason, etc.
intellectual strength - ANS - agility in perception & thinking
- sloppy, naive prejudices - motivated reasoning
- attempt to harvest better authenticity (healthy intellectual discussion)
practicing the 'love of wisdom': technical matters - ANS - the role of assumptions &
presuppositions (technical term for assumption) - underlying ideas we trust
- criticism & argument
K
- philosophy in Greek as 'philein' & 'sophia' (friendship w/ wisdom)
- Queen of the Sciences (philosophy) - concerned w/ truth
C
four approaches to doing philosophy: definitions - ANS - trying to articulate clear meanings of
things - wisdom, knowledge, happiness, etc.
- definitional ambition; disagreements along the way
them
LO
four approaches to doing philosophy: logic & proofs - ANS - take definitions & try to prove
- logistic reasoning; symbolic logic
- way of trying to argue in a reasoned out method
YC
- words can have ethical or non-ethical meanings regardless of context; asks each side to do
more than point fingers
four approaches to doing philosophy: being visionary - ANS - philosophy is constantly in
search of new modes of meaning
- visionary imagination; creative agility
D
- artistry in philosophy
four approaches to doing philosophy: focusing on the practical (the moral) - ANS - identifying
U
which actions are right or wrong, & on what basis can we claim it
- brings clarity, criticism, & questioning to something always going on (moral judgements)
ST
common denominators of the four approaches to doing philosophy - ANS - philosophy
challenges us to examine our beliefs & ourselves
- try to live a wise & more authentic life
three features of Athenian life - ANS - city
- education (kids from elite families; shaping future leaders; loosely-organized conversations:
main skill taught is rhetoric)
- Sophists: popular pragmatic teachers of rhetoric; sophisticated & pretentious (Socrates fought
them b/c they had no interest in the actual truth, only in winning arguments)
