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Aristotle's primary area of interest was - ANSWER--
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metaphysics.
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Which of the following is not one of the ten basic categories
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Aristotle used to describe the ways in which humans think
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about things? - ANSWER--weight
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How many souls did Aristotle believe humans have? -
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ANSWER--three
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Aristotle's works include all of the following except: -
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ANSWER--Nicomachean Ethics
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What is a thing, according to Aristotle? - ANSWER--A specific
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What does Aristotle mean by the efficient cause of a thing? -
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ANSWER--Where it came from.
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If you want to say what a thing is, which of Aristotle's four
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causes must you provide? - ANSWER--The formal cause.
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What did Aristotle say about all change? - ANSWER--It is a
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movement from potentiality to actuality.
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Which of the following is an example of what Aristotle called a
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universal? - ANSWER--The property of being red.
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What is a syllogism? - ANSWER--A kind of inference.
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What is not true of Hinduism? - ANSWER--It has no scriptures
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or holy writings.
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What is the central doctrine of the Upanishads? - ANSWER--
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The identity of Brahman and Atman.
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What is the main cause of human suffering, according to
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Siddhartha Gautama? - ANSWER--Ignorance and selfish
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Which is not a characteristic of the Tao, for Taoists? -
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ANSWER--Man can improve it.
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According to Confucius, this principle governs both the well-
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ordered family and the well-ordered state. - ANSWER--The
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principle of the Mean.
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Which would Mencius say true happiness consists in? -
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ANSWER--Seeing parents and family alive and well and free
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from anxiety.
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What must one do to discover ultimate reality and truth,
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according to Hui Neng, sixth patriarch of Ch'an Buddhism? -
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ANSWER--Give up false attachments and selfish interests.
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What Mahayana Buddhist view did Murasi Shikibu object to? -
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ANSWER--Women must wait for reincarnation as a male
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before they can achieve enlightenment.
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Which did Dogen Zenji advocate? - ANSWER--The Parental
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What do samurai warriors believe in? - ANSWER--All of the
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