CSTU 101 Final Exam Questions and
Correct Answers
What Revolution helped bring about a new way of looking at the world in purely material terms? -
Answer-Scientific Revolution
What famous artist was not associated with the "Century of Genius"? - Answer-da Vinci
What does the phrase "idols of the cave" refer to? - Answer-Individual Biases
What does the phrase "idols of the marketplace" refer to? - Answer-Ambiguities of Language
During the modern age, the "new science" has developed from what to what? - Answer-scientific
inquiry to philosophy of life.
What word refers to how we arrive at knowledge through experience? - Answer-Empiricism
, European culture in the 17th century in Europe is best characterized by which phrase? - Answer-Period
of Conflict
The textbook suggest that which century is referred to as the "century of genius"? - Answer-17th
Century
The name Galileo is best associated with what period? - Answer-1550-1770
You try three oranges out of a bag of ten and all three are sour. You conclude, therefore, that the rest of
the oranges are also sour. You have just reasoned ___________. - Answer-Inductively
Both the European culture and the development of the American Culture were largely impacted by
____________. - Answer-Enlightenment
According to the textbook, which Enlightenment figure had the greatest influence on how the
institutions of modern western culture have developed? - Answer-Roussaeu
What did enlightenment philosophers believe mankind was capable of? - Answer-Social Perfection
Rousseau is best known for his theories on which three subjects? - Answer-Education, Politics, Society
What great writer, and somewhat of a philosopher, stated that God was a construct of human
imagination made because we need a moral standard in society, and he is looked to and idolized by the
secular world because he was so hostile to faith? - Answer-Voltaire
Voltaire's philosophy is expressed by his most famous quote, namely that... - Answer-"If God did not
exist, it would be necessary to invent Him".
Correct Answers
What Revolution helped bring about a new way of looking at the world in purely material terms? -
Answer-Scientific Revolution
What famous artist was not associated with the "Century of Genius"? - Answer-da Vinci
What does the phrase "idols of the cave" refer to? - Answer-Individual Biases
What does the phrase "idols of the marketplace" refer to? - Answer-Ambiguities of Language
During the modern age, the "new science" has developed from what to what? - Answer-scientific
inquiry to philosophy of life.
What word refers to how we arrive at knowledge through experience? - Answer-Empiricism
, European culture in the 17th century in Europe is best characterized by which phrase? - Answer-Period
of Conflict
The textbook suggest that which century is referred to as the "century of genius"? - Answer-17th
Century
The name Galileo is best associated with what period? - Answer-1550-1770
You try three oranges out of a bag of ten and all three are sour. You conclude, therefore, that the rest of
the oranges are also sour. You have just reasoned ___________. - Answer-Inductively
Both the European culture and the development of the American Culture were largely impacted by
____________. - Answer-Enlightenment
According to the textbook, which Enlightenment figure had the greatest influence on how the
institutions of modern western culture have developed? - Answer-Roussaeu
What did enlightenment philosophers believe mankind was capable of? - Answer-Social Perfection
Rousseau is best known for his theories on which three subjects? - Answer-Education, Politics, Society
What great writer, and somewhat of a philosopher, stated that God was a construct of human
imagination made because we need a moral standard in society, and he is looked to and idolized by the
secular world because he was so hostile to faith? - Answer-Voltaire
Voltaire's philosophy is expressed by his most famous quote, namely that... - Answer-"If God did not
exist, it would be necessary to invent Him".
