INTRO TO PHILOSOPHY FINAL EXAM| QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS VERIFIED| LATEST EXAM UPDATE 2025/2026
"love of wisdom" -CORRECT ANSWER The word "philosophy" is derived
from the Greek term meaning
Ancient Greece -CORRECT ANSWER Western philosophy has its beginnings
in ______________.
Thales -CORRECT ANSWER ___________ is commonly said to the father of
Western philosophy.
Natural world -CORRECT ANSWER Questions of the Presocratic
philosophers of ancient Greece were concerned with what?
Human life -CORRECT ANSWER Questions of the philosopher Socrates
unlike his predecessors were focused on what?
Concept -CORRECT ANSWER ___________ is the standard term in
philosophy for idea.
Observation -CORRECT ANSWER A fact is a truth about the world
established through ______________.
Variable -CORRECT ANSWER In conceptual analysis X is call a?
Rene Descartes -CORRECT ANSWER The philosophical method Cartesian
Doubt a.k.a. method of doubt, which states "the first thing we should do is to
,doubt everything of which we cannot be absolutely certain," is associated with
the French philosopher?
Algorithm -CORRECT ANSWER _________ is a set of step-by-step
instructions which, if correctly followed, will lead always to a definite
CORRECT ANSWER or solution, e.g. 2+2=4.
Both A & B -CORRECT ANSWER For an ethical theory to be classified as
classical the theory will attempt to CORRECT ANSWER which of the
following questions:
People are carefully schooled in various disciplines, such as mathematics,
philosophy and so on. -CORRECT ANSWER According to Platonism "evil is
due to lack of knowledge" Plato believes that people will never act wickedly
and know the good life if...
Absolute and objective -CORRECT ANSWER Statements such as "thou shalt
not steal" and "thou shalt not commit murder are ___________ in the Platonic
sense.
Stoics -CORRECT ANSWER Which classic philosophical school of thought
held that "all behavior is rigidly determined by natural laws"?
Aristotle -CORRECT ANSWER Which classical philosopher adopted a
scientific or empirical approach to ethical problems?
Aristotle -CORRECT ANSWER Which classical philosopher(s) held and
promoted the concept of the "golden mean" e.g. "in order to achieve happiness,
people must act moderately, them must act so as to be striving for the mean
between two extremes."
, All of these -CORRECT ANSWER Christian ethics consists of which of the
following?
all of these -CORRECT ANSWER Baruch Spinoza, reckoned one of the
towering figures in the history of ethics, was a ...
Bentham & Mill -CORRECT ANSWER The essence of utilitarianism as a
philosophy is that it lays stress upon the effects that an action has. If an action
produces an excess of beneficial effects over harmful ones, then it is right;
otherwise, it is not. This philosophy was applied to ethics predominately by
which of the following?
Kant -CORRECT ANSWER _____________ stressed that the essence of
morality is to be found in the motive from which an act is done ... a person is
moral when he/she acts from a sense of duty.
philosophical analysis -CORRECT ANSWER The process of clarifying
meaning of questions and CORRECT ANSWERs is called __________ and
when used persistently in modern ethics causes it to differ enormously from
ethics pursued in the classical tradition.
Modern ethics -CORRECT ANSWER Philosophical analysis, the process in
which terms are defined in order tro come to an understanding of an ethical
question is characteristic of which of these?
Moore -CORRECT ANSWER This philosopher may be responsible for the
revolution in the approach to moral philosophy, that of philosophical analysis.
Subjectivism -CORRECT ANSWER If a theory holds that "ethical" judgments
are neither true nor false and that they are always about the psychology of the
person who utters them, this is...
ANSWERS VERIFIED| LATEST EXAM UPDATE 2025/2026
"love of wisdom" -CORRECT ANSWER The word "philosophy" is derived
from the Greek term meaning
Ancient Greece -CORRECT ANSWER Western philosophy has its beginnings
in ______________.
Thales -CORRECT ANSWER ___________ is commonly said to the father of
Western philosophy.
Natural world -CORRECT ANSWER Questions of the Presocratic
philosophers of ancient Greece were concerned with what?
Human life -CORRECT ANSWER Questions of the philosopher Socrates
unlike his predecessors were focused on what?
Concept -CORRECT ANSWER ___________ is the standard term in
philosophy for idea.
Observation -CORRECT ANSWER A fact is a truth about the world
established through ______________.
Variable -CORRECT ANSWER In conceptual analysis X is call a?
Rene Descartes -CORRECT ANSWER The philosophical method Cartesian
Doubt a.k.a. method of doubt, which states "the first thing we should do is to
,doubt everything of which we cannot be absolutely certain," is associated with
the French philosopher?
Algorithm -CORRECT ANSWER _________ is a set of step-by-step
instructions which, if correctly followed, will lead always to a definite
CORRECT ANSWER or solution, e.g. 2+2=4.
Both A & B -CORRECT ANSWER For an ethical theory to be classified as
classical the theory will attempt to CORRECT ANSWER which of the
following questions:
People are carefully schooled in various disciplines, such as mathematics,
philosophy and so on. -CORRECT ANSWER According to Platonism "evil is
due to lack of knowledge" Plato believes that people will never act wickedly
and know the good life if...
Absolute and objective -CORRECT ANSWER Statements such as "thou shalt
not steal" and "thou shalt not commit murder are ___________ in the Platonic
sense.
Stoics -CORRECT ANSWER Which classic philosophical school of thought
held that "all behavior is rigidly determined by natural laws"?
Aristotle -CORRECT ANSWER Which classical philosopher adopted a
scientific or empirical approach to ethical problems?
Aristotle -CORRECT ANSWER Which classical philosopher(s) held and
promoted the concept of the "golden mean" e.g. "in order to achieve happiness,
people must act moderately, them must act so as to be striving for the mean
between two extremes."
, All of these -CORRECT ANSWER Christian ethics consists of which of the
following?
all of these -CORRECT ANSWER Baruch Spinoza, reckoned one of the
towering figures in the history of ethics, was a ...
Bentham & Mill -CORRECT ANSWER The essence of utilitarianism as a
philosophy is that it lays stress upon the effects that an action has. If an action
produces an excess of beneficial effects over harmful ones, then it is right;
otherwise, it is not. This philosophy was applied to ethics predominately by
which of the following?
Kant -CORRECT ANSWER _____________ stressed that the essence of
morality is to be found in the motive from which an act is done ... a person is
moral when he/she acts from a sense of duty.
philosophical analysis -CORRECT ANSWER The process of clarifying
meaning of questions and CORRECT ANSWERs is called __________ and
when used persistently in modern ethics causes it to differ enormously from
ethics pursued in the classical tradition.
Modern ethics -CORRECT ANSWER Philosophical analysis, the process in
which terms are defined in order tro come to an understanding of an ethical
question is characteristic of which of these?
Moore -CORRECT ANSWER This philosopher may be responsible for the
revolution in the approach to moral philosophy, that of philosophical analysis.
Subjectivism -CORRECT ANSWER If a theory holds that "ethical" judgments
are neither true nor false and that they are always about the psychology of the
person who utters them, this is...
