PHIL 100 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Existentialism, as Sartre defines it, is the view that (human) essence precedes (human)
existence. - Answers - false
In Sartre's view, to be free is not to be anything unfree. - Answers - true
Essentialism is the view that the human essence could not exist without human beings.
- Answers - false
For Sartre, we can be free only within a concrete situation which offers a plurality of
possible actions for us to choose from. - Answers - true
The present is "absurd," for Sartre, because there is no past which could explain it. -
Answers - true
Descartes believes that it is impossible to doubt the existence of anything whatsoever. -
Answers - false
Idealism holds that all reality depends upon the mind for its existence, and could not
exist independently of the mind. - Answers - true
In applying the method of systematic doubt, Descartes seeks a body of truths that
cannot even be imagined to be false. - Answers - true
Descartes believes that all of our knowledge is derived from the experience of the
senses. - Answers - false
For Berkeley, anything that exists can (at least in principle) be perceived. - Answers -
true
For Sartre, the for-itself is what it is. - Answers - false
For Sartre, a course of action appears to be objectively right or valuable because we
have chosen it. - Answers - true
Sartre believes in an objective and eternally existing human nature. - Answers - false
For Sartre, human beings create their own values. - Answers - true
The possibilities for action among which human choices are made are, for Sartre,
valuable only after a choice among them has been made. - Answers - true
, In Sartre's view human beings may discover objectively valid values, and must, then,
strive to realize them. - Answers - false
Intentionality is the object-directedness of consciousness. - Answers - true
For Sartre, non-positional consciousness is consciousness of the foreground object that
receives our primary attention. - Answers - false
The psychic, for Sartre, is the "inside" of consciousness (that is, consciousness as it
experiences itself from within). - Answers - true
For Sartre, consciousness is always identical with itself. - Answers - false
For Sartre, what is common to human beings and accounts for our being human is the
human condition, not the human essence. - Answers - true
According to Hui-neng's poem, there is no condition for enlightenment and there is
nothing to be done to attain enlightenment. - Answers - true
In Hui-neng's poem, "There never was a Bodhi Tree" implies that we are originally
enlightened. - Answers - true
According to Seng-t'san's poem, "Verses on Faith Mind," the Great Way is easy if you
pick and choose. - Answers - false
Which of the following would Dogen NOT accept? - Answers - The goal of Buddhist
practice is to assume that eternal that timeless vantage point from which the successive
moments of our experience can be viewed
Dogen believes that ... - Answers - life does not become death and death does not
become life
Dogen's response to Shen-hsiu's "dust-wiping" is that ... - Answers - the "mirror"
continues to reflect even if covered with dust
According to Dogen ... - Answers - the potentiality of a thing is completely exhausted in
its being what it is
For Dogen ... - Answers - to study the self is to forget the self
Dogen believes that ... - Answers - the "permanence" of the self is relative to a given
framework and is not absolute
Which of the following would Dogen NOT accept? - Answers - it is delusion when the
myriad things advance toward oneself
Existentialism, as Sartre defines it, is the view that (human) essence precedes (human)
existence. - Answers - false
In Sartre's view, to be free is not to be anything unfree. - Answers - true
Essentialism is the view that the human essence could not exist without human beings.
- Answers - false
For Sartre, we can be free only within a concrete situation which offers a plurality of
possible actions for us to choose from. - Answers - true
The present is "absurd," for Sartre, because there is no past which could explain it. -
Answers - true
Descartes believes that it is impossible to doubt the existence of anything whatsoever. -
Answers - false
Idealism holds that all reality depends upon the mind for its existence, and could not
exist independently of the mind. - Answers - true
In applying the method of systematic doubt, Descartes seeks a body of truths that
cannot even be imagined to be false. - Answers - true
Descartes believes that all of our knowledge is derived from the experience of the
senses. - Answers - false
For Berkeley, anything that exists can (at least in principle) be perceived. - Answers -
true
For Sartre, the for-itself is what it is. - Answers - false
For Sartre, a course of action appears to be objectively right or valuable because we
have chosen it. - Answers - true
Sartre believes in an objective and eternally existing human nature. - Answers - false
For Sartre, human beings create their own values. - Answers - true
The possibilities for action among which human choices are made are, for Sartre,
valuable only after a choice among them has been made. - Answers - true
, In Sartre's view human beings may discover objectively valid values, and must, then,
strive to realize them. - Answers - false
Intentionality is the object-directedness of consciousness. - Answers - true
For Sartre, non-positional consciousness is consciousness of the foreground object that
receives our primary attention. - Answers - false
The psychic, for Sartre, is the "inside" of consciousness (that is, consciousness as it
experiences itself from within). - Answers - true
For Sartre, consciousness is always identical with itself. - Answers - false
For Sartre, what is common to human beings and accounts for our being human is the
human condition, not the human essence. - Answers - true
According to Hui-neng's poem, there is no condition for enlightenment and there is
nothing to be done to attain enlightenment. - Answers - true
In Hui-neng's poem, "There never was a Bodhi Tree" implies that we are originally
enlightened. - Answers - true
According to Seng-t'san's poem, "Verses on Faith Mind," the Great Way is easy if you
pick and choose. - Answers - false
Which of the following would Dogen NOT accept? - Answers - The goal of Buddhist
practice is to assume that eternal that timeless vantage point from which the successive
moments of our experience can be viewed
Dogen believes that ... - Answers - life does not become death and death does not
become life
Dogen's response to Shen-hsiu's "dust-wiping" is that ... - Answers - the "mirror"
continues to reflect even if covered with dust
According to Dogen ... - Answers - the potentiality of a thing is completely exhausted in
its being what it is
For Dogen ... - Answers - to study the self is to forget the self
Dogen believes that ... - Answers - the "permanence" of the self is relative to a given
framework and is not absolute
Which of the following would Dogen NOT accept? - Answers - it is delusion when the
myriad things advance toward oneself
