PHIL101 EXAM 2024/2025 WITH 100%
ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
studies fundamental questions about how we ought to live
- Examples: how ought I live in order to be happy or to flourish as a human? What are my obligations to
other people? - Precise Answer ✔✔Normative Ethics/ Moral Theory
studies fundamental questions about how the government/ ruling class and the governed/ the people
ought to be organized
- Examples: What form of government ought to be in place? Should the government have the right to
draft its people in wartime? - Precise Answer ✔✔Normative social-political philosophy
Philosophy of science
of religion
of mathematics
of mind
of language
Aesthetics (philosophy of art and beauty)
of law
of technology
of education
of sport - Precise Answer ✔✔Secondary branches of philosophy
medical ethics, business ethics, environmental ethics - Precise Answer ✔✔Various "applied ethics" areas
1. ancient medieval, modern, contemporary
2. can focus on any branch - Precise Answer ✔✔studies of the history of philosophy
,existentialism, feminism - Precise Answer ✔✔Various movements in philosophy that have many
elements from different branches
- an understanding of the nature of the world
- concerns getting facts right
- concerns what is
- you can be theoretically wise, but not practically wise
- Examples: Einstein, Da Vinci - Precise Answer ✔✔Theoretical Wisdom
- an understanding of what is good and right and how to live
- concerns having the right values
- concerns what ought to be
- you can be practically wise but not theoretically wise
- Examples: Gandhi, Pope Francis, Mother Theresa - Precise Answer ✔✔Practical Wisdom
- seeks to achieve a rational understanding of the nature of the world
- concerns knowing the facts about the nature of reality and backing this up with arguments
- concerns what is
- non action-guiding (does not give guidance about how to behave) - Precise Answer ✔✔Theoretical
Philosophy
- Seeks to achieve a rational understanding of what is good and right and how to live
- concerns knowing the right values and backing this up with arguments
- concerns what ought to be
- action- guiding (gives guidance on how to behave) - Precise Answer ✔✔Practical Philosophy
love of wisdom - Precise Answer ✔✔Philosophy TRANSLATION
- personal application for purposes of enlightenment
, - learning based on experience
- being discriminating about using what you know
-not just knowledge, but understanding
- recognizing patterns for purposes of understanding
- peaceful, settled, grounded, centered
- rationally justified belief system
- deeply valuing continuation of learning improvement
- self-reflection
- self- knowledge
- accepting what you don't know
- ability to discern consequences
- behave in a way that benefits others/ altruistic
- humble when appropriate; bold/ confident when appropriate - Precise Answer ✔✔wisdom
the discipline of rational inquiry into the truth of, reasons for and meaning of our fundamental beliefs
(those that cannot be determined by empirical science), undertaken to achieve theoretical and practical
wisdom - Precise Answer ✔✔Philosophy DEFINITION
valid reasoning - Precise Answer ✔✔logic
follow the laws of logic - Precise Answer ✔✔reasoning
careful, methodical, rigorous, and logical - Precise Answer ✔✔Philosophers must be
Answering a questions based on the fact that you want it to be true instead of thinking through it
Example: Do humans have free will? Most people answer yes, because they want it to be true - Precise
Answer ✔✔wishful thinking
1. lack of certainty
2. fear
ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
studies fundamental questions about how we ought to live
- Examples: how ought I live in order to be happy or to flourish as a human? What are my obligations to
other people? - Precise Answer ✔✔Normative Ethics/ Moral Theory
studies fundamental questions about how the government/ ruling class and the governed/ the people
ought to be organized
- Examples: What form of government ought to be in place? Should the government have the right to
draft its people in wartime? - Precise Answer ✔✔Normative social-political philosophy
Philosophy of science
of religion
of mathematics
of mind
of language
Aesthetics (philosophy of art and beauty)
of law
of technology
of education
of sport - Precise Answer ✔✔Secondary branches of philosophy
medical ethics, business ethics, environmental ethics - Precise Answer ✔✔Various "applied ethics" areas
1. ancient medieval, modern, contemporary
2. can focus on any branch - Precise Answer ✔✔studies of the history of philosophy
,existentialism, feminism - Precise Answer ✔✔Various movements in philosophy that have many
elements from different branches
- an understanding of the nature of the world
- concerns getting facts right
- concerns what is
- you can be theoretically wise, but not practically wise
- Examples: Einstein, Da Vinci - Precise Answer ✔✔Theoretical Wisdom
- an understanding of what is good and right and how to live
- concerns having the right values
- concerns what ought to be
- you can be practically wise but not theoretically wise
- Examples: Gandhi, Pope Francis, Mother Theresa - Precise Answer ✔✔Practical Wisdom
- seeks to achieve a rational understanding of the nature of the world
- concerns knowing the facts about the nature of reality and backing this up with arguments
- concerns what is
- non action-guiding (does not give guidance about how to behave) - Precise Answer ✔✔Theoretical
Philosophy
- Seeks to achieve a rational understanding of what is good and right and how to live
- concerns knowing the right values and backing this up with arguments
- concerns what ought to be
- action- guiding (gives guidance on how to behave) - Precise Answer ✔✔Practical Philosophy
love of wisdom - Precise Answer ✔✔Philosophy TRANSLATION
- personal application for purposes of enlightenment
, - learning based on experience
- being discriminating about using what you know
-not just knowledge, but understanding
- recognizing patterns for purposes of understanding
- peaceful, settled, grounded, centered
- rationally justified belief system
- deeply valuing continuation of learning improvement
- self-reflection
- self- knowledge
- accepting what you don't know
- ability to discern consequences
- behave in a way that benefits others/ altruistic
- humble when appropriate; bold/ confident when appropriate - Precise Answer ✔✔wisdom
the discipline of rational inquiry into the truth of, reasons for and meaning of our fundamental beliefs
(those that cannot be determined by empirical science), undertaken to achieve theoretical and practical
wisdom - Precise Answer ✔✔Philosophy DEFINITION
valid reasoning - Precise Answer ✔✔logic
follow the laws of logic - Precise Answer ✔✔reasoning
careful, methodical, rigorous, and logical - Precise Answer ✔✔Philosophers must be
Answering a questions based on the fact that you want it to be true instead of thinking through it
Example: Do humans have free will? Most people answer yes, because they want it to be true - Precise
Answer ✔✔wishful thinking
1. lack of certainty
2. fear
