PHIL101 Straighterline.com Philosophy Graded Exam #2 Flashcards Questions with complete solutions

According to David Hume, what do we directly observe? correct answer: Sense impressions According to Immanuel Kant, the world being "noumenal" means the _____. correct answer: World as it is in itself, independent of our experiences According to David Hume, why can't past experience justify claims about the future? correct answer: We can never know whether or not the future will be like the past. According to the philosophy of Absolute Idealism, what is the relationship between "being real" and "being knowable"? correct answer: All reality is knowable. According to David Hume, the self is a(n) _____. correct answer: Sequence of perceptions According to Hegel, the highest reality (the absolute) is _____. correct answer: An infinite thought thinking of itself Identify a true statement about Søren Kierkegaard. correct answer: He scorned Hegel's system, in which the individual dissolves into a kind of abstract unreality. What did Michel Foucault claim concerning epistemes? correct answer: They are "created realities" that are the ground of true and false in each era. For French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, what is culture? correct answer: A system of signs According to Jean-Paul Sartre, a human being is abandoned and that means _____. correct answer: There is no God An authentic existence can be found, according to Heidegger, only if one can _____. correct answer: Understand oneself as a totality According to Albert Camus, how can we give life meaning and value? correct answer: Rebel against the absurd.