PHIL 1100 COMPLETE LATEST FINAL
BASED SET WITH QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Which of the following is NOT a stated purpose of Sire's Universe Next Door UND?
a. to outline the basic worldviews that underlie the way we in the Western world think
b. to demonstrate that Christianity is a better worldview than all other worldviews
c. to encourage us all to think in terms of worldviews
d. to trace historically how these worldviews have developed - correct answer-✅B
Which of the following is NOT a part of Sire's definition of a worldview?
a. it is a fundamental orientation of the heart
b. it is a political viewpoint about how people should be goverened
c. it is a commitment
d. it is expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions - correct answer-✅B
What happens to a person at death? - correct answer-✅asks whether personal extinction, or
transformation to a higher state, or reincarnation, or departure to a shadowy existence
What is the meaning of human history? - correct answer-✅asks if we are here to realize the purposes of
God or the gods, to make a paradise on earth, to prepare people for a life in community with a loving
and holy God
What is a human being? - correct answer-✅asks whether we are a highly complex machine, a sleeping
god, a person made in the image of God, a naked ape.
What personal, life-orienting core commitments are consistent with this worldview? - correct answer-
✅asks how the variety of ways the intellectual commitments are worked out in individual lives
How do we know what is right and wrong? - correct answer-✅asks if we are made in the image of God
whose character is good, or right and wrong are determined by human choice alone or what feels good,
or the notions simply developed under an impetus toward cultural or physical survival
What is the nature of external reality? - correct answer-✅asks whether we see the world as created or
autonomous, as chaotic or orderly, as matter or spirit
Why is it possible to know anything at all? - correct answer-✅asks whether we are made in the image of
an all knowing God, or that consciousness and rationality developed under the contingencies of survival
in a long process of evolution
What is prime reality? - correct answer-✅asks what is the most fundamental
Theism is the foundational view, the one from which all others developing between 1700 and 1900
essentially derive.
True /False - correct answer-✅True
Which of the following is NOT true of the God of Theism?
a. God is sovereign.
b. God is finite.
c. God is personal.
d. God is transcendent. - correct answer-✅B
Which of the following is NOT true of theism's view of history?
a. History is cyclical.
b. History is not reversible.
c. History is linear.
d. History is teleological. - correct answer-✅A
, Why does Sire call Deism the "Clockwork Universe?"
a. Because Deism emphasizes time and it's importance.
b. Because Deism sees all reality to be mechanistic like a clock.
c. Because Deists of the eighteenth century were generally clockmakers.
d. Because Deism is perfect like a clock. - correct answer-✅B
Which of the following deists use as their source of authority and knowledge?
a. Divine revelation found in Scripture.
b. The light of reason.
c. The inner intuitions and feelings. - correct answer-✅B
Which of the following is NOT how Deists viewed God?
a. God is supremely powerful.
b. God is supremely intelligent.
c. God is immanent and intervenes in human affairs.
d. God is transcendent and outside this cosmos. - correct answer-✅C
Atheism - correct answer-✅no God/god exists and that we know the claim to be true
the philosophical claim that we cannot know whether God exists - correct answer-✅Agnosticism
whether God/gods exist is simply an irrelevant question - correct answer-✅Apatheism
true or false. Naturalism sees the universe as an open system because they are open-minded about
morality. - correct answer-✅false
Which of the following is NOT true of secular humanism?
a. all naturalists are secular humanists
b. its tenets are well expressed in the Humanist Manifesto II
c. it is one form of humanism in general, but not the only form
d. it accepts no final goals beyond human flourishing - correct answer-✅A
Which of the following is NOT true of Eastern Pantheistic Monism's view of prime reality?
a. Atman is Brahman; the soul of every human being is the Soul of the cosmos
b. God is the cosmos.
c. God is the one, impersonal, ultimate reality.
d. God is transcendent. - correct answer-✅D
Which of the following is NOT true of the Atman.
a. Atman is Brahman.
b. To "realize" our being is for us to embrace our complex personhood that persists after death.
c. If Brahman is one and impersonal, so is Atman.
d. Human beings in their essence are impersonal. - correct answer-✅B
Which of the following is NOT true of Karma?
a. The consequences of sin can be escaped through forgiveness from the One.
b. Karma operates as a strict necessity demanding that every soul suffer for its past "sins."
c. Karma is the Eastern version of "you reap what you sow."
d. One's present fate results from past action, especially in a former life. - correct answer-✅A
Which of the following is NOT true of Buddhism?
a. Buddhist monism holds that final reality is the Void.
b. Buddhists seek a salvation through desires and their fulfillment.
c. Final reality is nothing that can be named or grasped.
d. For a Buddhist, an individual person is a not-soul. - correct answer-✅B
Which of the following is the goal of existentialism? Select the most appropriate answer.
a. to figure out what existence is
b. to make people exist
c. to transcend nihilism - correct answer-✅C
BASED SET WITH QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Which of the following is NOT a stated purpose of Sire's Universe Next Door UND?
a. to outline the basic worldviews that underlie the way we in the Western world think
b. to demonstrate that Christianity is a better worldview than all other worldviews
c. to encourage us all to think in terms of worldviews
d. to trace historically how these worldviews have developed - correct answer-✅B
Which of the following is NOT a part of Sire's definition of a worldview?
a. it is a fundamental orientation of the heart
b. it is a political viewpoint about how people should be goverened
c. it is a commitment
d. it is expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions - correct answer-✅B
What happens to a person at death? - correct answer-✅asks whether personal extinction, or
transformation to a higher state, or reincarnation, or departure to a shadowy existence
What is the meaning of human history? - correct answer-✅asks if we are here to realize the purposes of
God or the gods, to make a paradise on earth, to prepare people for a life in community with a loving
and holy God
What is a human being? - correct answer-✅asks whether we are a highly complex machine, a sleeping
god, a person made in the image of God, a naked ape.
What personal, life-orienting core commitments are consistent with this worldview? - correct answer-
✅asks how the variety of ways the intellectual commitments are worked out in individual lives
How do we know what is right and wrong? - correct answer-✅asks if we are made in the image of God
whose character is good, or right and wrong are determined by human choice alone or what feels good,
or the notions simply developed under an impetus toward cultural or physical survival
What is the nature of external reality? - correct answer-✅asks whether we see the world as created or
autonomous, as chaotic or orderly, as matter or spirit
Why is it possible to know anything at all? - correct answer-✅asks whether we are made in the image of
an all knowing God, or that consciousness and rationality developed under the contingencies of survival
in a long process of evolution
What is prime reality? - correct answer-✅asks what is the most fundamental
Theism is the foundational view, the one from which all others developing between 1700 and 1900
essentially derive.
True /False - correct answer-✅True
Which of the following is NOT true of the God of Theism?
a. God is sovereign.
b. God is finite.
c. God is personal.
d. God is transcendent. - correct answer-✅B
Which of the following is NOT true of theism's view of history?
a. History is cyclical.
b. History is not reversible.
c. History is linear.
d. History is teleological. - correct answer-✅A
, Why does Sire call Deism the "Clockwork Universe?"
a. Because Deism emphasizes time and it's importance.
b. Because Deism sees all reality to be mechanistic like a clock.
c. Because Deists of the eighteenth century were generally clockmakers.
d. Because Deism is perfect like a clock. - correct answer-✅B
Which of the following deists use as their source of authority and knowledge?
a. Divine revelation found in Scripture.
b. The light of reason.
c. The inner intuitions and feelings. - correct answer-✅B
Which of the following is NOT how Deists viewed God?
a. God is supremely powerful.
b. God is supremely intelligent.
c. God is immanent and intervenes in human affairs.
d. God is transcendent and outside this cosmos. - correct answer-✅C
Atheism - correct answer-✅no God/god exists and that we know the claim to be true
the philosophical claim that we cannot know whether God exists - correct answer-✅Agnosticism
whether God/gods exist is simply an irrelevant question - correct answer-✅Apatheism
true or false. Naturalism sees the universe as an open system because they are open-minded about
morality. - correct answer-✅false
Which of the following is NOT true of secular humanism?
a. all naturalists are secular humanists
b. its tenets are well expressed in the Humanist Manifesto II
c. it is one form of humanism in general, but not the only form
d. it accepts no final goals beyond human flourishing - correct answer-✅A
Which of the following is NOT true of Eastern Pantheistic Monism's view of prime reality?
a. Atman is Brahman; the soul of every human being is the Soul of the cosmos
b. God is the cosmos.
c. God is the one, impersonal, ultimate reality.
d. God is transcendent. - correct answer-✅D
Which of the following is NOT true of the Atman.
a. Atman is Brahman.
b. To "realize" our being is for us to embrace our complex personhood that persists after death.
c. If Brahman is one and impersonal, so is Atman.
d. Human beings in their essence are impersonal. - correct answer-✅B
Which of the following is NOT true of Karma?
a. The consequences of sin can be escaped through forgiveness from the One.
b. Karma operates as a strict necessity demanding that every soul suffer for its past "sins."
c. Karma is the Eastern version of "you reap what you sow."
d. One's present fate results from past action, especially in a former life. - correct answer-✅A
Which of the following is NOT true of Buddhism?
a. Buddhist monism holds that final reality is the Void.
b. Buddhists seek a salvation through desires and their fulfillment.
c. Final reality is nothing that can be named or grasped.
d. For a Buddhist, an individual person is a not-soul. - correct answer-✅B
Which of the following is the goal of existentialism? Select the most appropriate answer.
a. to figure out what existence is
b. to make people exist
c. to transcend nihilism - correct answer-✅C
