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PHIL 101: FINAL EXAM (JMU - YATES) EXAM PACKAGE DEAL

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Key terms Aporia Greek term for an experience in which we arrive at a state of confusion when we realize that we hold contradictory viewpoints and/or premises. It's distressing but important and productive. Socrates employed the 'Aporetic Method' in order to bring this about in people as a way of motivating the pursuit of wisdom. Epistemology The branch of philosophy that focuses on trying to understand how we can best determine knowledge claims, truths, and the limits/possibili...

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Why was the mind-body problem such a big deal? - ANS limits of science? best basis for human understanding: senses or ideas? good news for philosophy of knowledge? Descartes 3 modern ambitions - ANS 1.Possibility for certain knowledge on human basis 2.Don't start with assumptions about higher truth 3. Rid reasoning of all errors 4 rules about hyperbolic doubt - ANS 1.Be systematic: proceed from particular facts of mental experience to universal principles. 2.Reject '...

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philosophy - ANS -Philosophy is concrete and absolute- not abstract -Trying to seek simple truths -Moves into life- not away -Paying attention to life and ideas -Formalizes the question: What should I value, what do I believe and why what motivates philosophy? - ANS -Examines beliefs -activity/practice involving questioning beliefs about life, --morality, reality, knowledge -Going beneath the usual surface -Motivated by wonder, awe, curiosity -Turning emotional experiences into ...

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Ferry - Quest for Salvation - ANS - philosophy is about more than 'Critical Reflection' - Quest for Salvation, but he believes this NOT in a religious sense - Issue of 'Death' (mortality) - he had concerns about the Religious approach Nuance - ANS a slight or subtle degree of difference (drawing a distinction) Ferry - Three Orientations of Philosophy - ANS 1. Theory 2. Ethics 3. Salvation/Wisdom Solomon - In pursuit of the contemplative life - ANS "philos...

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Nietzsche is a ... - ANS Iconoclast iconoclast - ANS one who opposes established beliefs, customs, and institutions How does Nietzsche further skepticism? - ANS focused on our formation of concept and truth claims that go with them Nietzsche's key themes - ANS Intellectual pretense and drive, concepts as path of abstraction, concepts rooted in metaphors, illusion of being right via "cathedral of concepts" Who would agree that "We reason in language, language u...

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Rousseau's personal concern - ANS Inequality and government (how to balance individual freedoms within the good things in government) When Rousseau focuses on 'Nature as Basis for Morality', what is he NOT talking about? - ANS God and the principles of human reason When Rousseau focuses on 'Nature as Basis for Morality', what IS he talking about? - ANS Human nature as selfish in a good way, a naturally good kind of self interest Humanity's goal according to...

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how philosophy involves cultivating one side of our lives by questioning another - ANS to cultivate the side of our ideas, reason, etc. intellectual strength - ANS - agility in perception & thinking - sloppy, naive prejudices - motivated reasoning - attempt to harvest better authenticity (healthy intellectual discussion) practicing the 'love of wisdom': technical matters - ANS - the role of assumptions & presuppositions (technical term for assumption) - underlying ideas we...

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2. Two have two irreducibly different properties. There are some properties held by mental phenomena that cannot possibly be analyzed as material and vice versa. mind stuff is indivisible, body is divisible. mind is private, body is public What is the big problem with cartesian dualism? - ️️How can two completely different kinds of things interact causally? does interaction require some point of contact? Where is the point of contact for mind and body according to descartes - ️️pin...

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PHIL101 EXAM 2024/2025 WITH 100% ACCURATE SOLUTIONS

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PHIL 101 EXAM 3 JMU YATES QUESTIONS & ANSWERS SOLVED 100% CORRECT!! PHIL101 EXAM #2 (DR. YATES @ JMU PHILOSOPHY TEST 2) QUESTIONS WITH ALL CORRECT ANSWERS!!

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PHIL101 EXAM #2 (DR. YATES @ JMU PHILOSOPHY TEST 2) QUESTIONS WITH ALL CORRECT ANSWERS!!

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Written in 2023/2024

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PHIL101 EXAM #2 (DR. YATES @ JMU PHILOSOPHY TEST 2) QUESTIONS WITH ALL CORRECT ANSWERS!!

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JMU PHIL 101 Introduction to Philosophy | Final Exam Prep and Study Guide Latest 2026 update

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