Philosophy chapter 1 2023 with 100% correct questions and answers
Relativism is an ethical issue True or False - correct answerTrue In parts of Africa, a wise person was known as a witch doctor True or False - correct answerTrue In The ancient world, a wise person was known as a "thyme" True or False - correct answerFalse C.G. Jung wrote of "archetypes" True or False - correct answerTrue "archetype" is another word for ideal True or False - correct answerFalse Logic is an area of philosophy True or False - correct answerTrue A utilitarian beliefs that pain is inherently bad True or False - correct answerTrue "Majority rules" thinking reflects a Unitarian approach to philosophy True or False - correct answerTrue A stereotype is a simplistic distortion of a person True or False - correct answerTrue Doubting Thomas was a skeptic True or False - correct answerTrue You have to be a philosopher to ask philosophical questions True or False - correct answerFalse Durant held that philosophy might give us healing unity of the soul True or False - correct answerTrue Philosophers are always men True or False - correct answerFalse Ayn Rand was a philosopher True or False - correct answerTrue Volmer was an elderly woman philosopher who had visions True or False - correct answerFalse Women are still underrepresented in many fields True or False - correct answerTrue Spinoza said that he did not know how to teach philosophy True or False - correct answerTrue Philosophy is perhaps the most open of subjects True or Fale - correct answerTrue The best philosophers defer to all arguments True or False - correct answerFalse Walter Kaufman held that the history of philosophy was the history of heresy True or False - correct answerTrue Western philosophy has been predominantly male True or False - correct answerTrue Originally an "amateur" was motivated by love, not by profit True or False - correct answerTrue The history of philosophy is no longer being written True or False - correct answerFalse The belief that knowledge is determined by the specific qualities of the observer is called -Relativism -positivism -deontology -methodology - correct answerRelativism James Q Wilson is a -Politician -Apologist -Sociologist -Classicist - correct answerSociologist To secure a fundamental understanding of reality as it relates to living a good life is the chief goal of -Apologetics -Relativism -Wisdom -Truth - correct answerWisdom Knowledge is -belief -Wisdom -True belief -Abstract thought - correct answerTrue belief Belief is -The trust that a claim is true -The way to enlightenment -The way to God -Merely relative - correct answerThe trust that a claim is true False Knowledge is -Common -Impossible -Uncommon -Dangerous - correct answerImpossible Willed ignorance - is a close-minded attitude - is typical of atheists - is typical of religious people - is an open-minded attitude - correct answeris a close-minded attitude Who wrote that philosophy was a "medical art for the soul" - Cicero - Aquinas - Kant - Wilson - correct answerCicero For the Greeks of Homer's era, everything happened - by chance - by human action - by divine agency - by Greek action - correct answerby divine agency The word "philosophy" is from the Greek, meaning "Love of Wisdom True or False - correct answerTrue Poseiden was the God of - The air - Thought - The land - The sea - correct answerThe sea "Ad hominem" is latin for - "At the man" - "Fallacy of anachronism" - "This first therefore that" - "commercial similarity" - correct answer"At the man" Who wrote that beggars get handouts before philosophers? - Cicero - Plato - Aristotle - Diogenes - correct answerDiogenes Epistemology asks questions about - Writing - Reality - Love - Knowledge - correct answerKnowledge In parts of Asia, a wise person was known as a - Shaman - Guru - Tantra - Sage - correct answerGuru Two virtues of archetypal figures are - The intensity and pluralism of their beliefs - The intensity and purity of their beliefs - The rationality and purity of their beliefs - The intensity and rationality of their beliefs - correct answerThe intensity and purity of their beliefs Bertrand Russel held that philosophy - Was to be avoided at al costs - Would lead to divine revelation - Was to be studied for the sake of its answers - Was to be studied for the sake of its questions - correct answerWas to be studied for the sake of its questions Two of the primary goals of philosophy are - Opacity of expression and clarity of thought - Opacity of thought and clarity of expression - Clarity of expression and thought - Opacity of expression and thought - correct answerClarity of expression and thought Diogenes said that one could accept reason, or - a halter - ignorance - truth - God - correct answera halter The two types of knowledge are - True and False - Practical and Theoretical - Positive and Negative - Relative and Universal - correct answerPractical and Theoretical Philosophy consists of careful reasoning about certain kinds of issues True or False - correct answerTrue A conviction that something is true where the only evidence for this is the conviction itself is - A true belief - A mere belief - A justified belief - An evidential belief - correct answerA mere belief The history of philosophy has been dominated by - African males - European males - European women - Asian males - correct answerEuropean males Philosophers agree that knowledge is - impossible - cultural - male - true belief - correct answertrue belief Which god was said to support the world on his shoulders - Rand - Zeus - Apollo - Atlas - correct answerAtlas Buddha held that all humanity was - Enlightened - Illusory - Healthy - Sick - correct answerSick What was Greek Mythology a part of - A search for explanations - The need for social control - Mass hysteria - Personal experience of the divine - correct answerA search for explanations Philosophy only concerns the nature of God True or False - correct answerFalse Philosophical questions can be answered in the same way as mathematical questions True or False - correct answerFalse Metaphysics raises questions that go beyond the scope of ordinary science True or False - correct answerTrue Epistemology is a comic approach to philosophy True or False - correct answerFalse
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