Philosophy Final JCJC Exam Questions And Answers 100% Pass
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Locke believed that rationalism is false because - answerhe believed it was always possible to show
that knowledge arises from
experience
"Independent reality" means - answerthat which is true regardless of what we think about it
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Philosophy Final JCJC Exam Questions And
Answers 100% Pass
Locke believed that rationalism is false because - answer✔he believed it was always possible to show
that knowledge arises from
experience
"Independent reality" means - answer✔that which is true regardless of what we think about it
Bertrand Russell said that the nature of reality is difficult to arrive at because - answer✔all that we
directly know are our sensations
George Berkeley denied the existence of matter because - answer✔he thought that there is nothing
non-mental
Empiricism is the position that - answer✔reality can be perceived through the senses
Leibniz believed that the human mind - answer✔has innate tendencies
According to Locke, qualities of objects that produce sensations in people are considered to be _______.
- answer✔secondary qualities
Berkeley's epistemology of subjective idealism is represented by which Latin phrase? - answer✔esse est
percipi
David Hume used the word "impressions" to mean _______. - answer✔what we directly experience
through the senses or emotions
Locke's account of human understanding is missing - answer✔a story about how the mind transforms
experience into concepts
Unlike Berkeley, Leibniz believed - answer✔in a reality independent of our minds
Which philosopher's skepticism led him to conclude that there is no sound reason to believe in the
principles of cause and effect - answer✔David Hume
In Women's Ways of Knowing, the authors reported that the women they were interviewing sometimes
said, "You're asking the wrong question!" They interpreted this to mean that these women were in
which of Perry's stages of cognitive development? - answer✔Constructed Knowledge
The authors of Women's Ways of Knowing added an earlier stage to Perry's four stages of cognitive
development. This stage is called _______. - answer✔silence
Ludwig Feuerbach thought that we "create" God because we _______. - answer✔have an idealized
sense of self that we project
What does it mean to say a religion may not be theistic? - answer✔It may not posit any gods
Keiji Nishitani thought that the main function of religion is to - answer✔provide meaning to life
Hinduism considers ultimate reality to be _______. - answer✔unknowable
Buddhism is focused on the goal of - answer✔being free of one's desires
Daoism is focused on the goal of - answer✔coming into harmony with reality
Judaism is based primarily on - answer✔monotheism
The key assumption of Saint Anselm's ontological argument for God's existence is that - answer✔if God
exists, he exists necessarily
Aquinas' argument from gradations of goodness concludes that - answer✔there must be a perfect being
What J.L. Mackie called "the problem of evil" argues against God's existence states _______. - answer✔a
perfect being would not allow evil or God is omnipotent; God is wholly good; and yet evil exists
For philosophers and theologians in the________ tradition, free will is the most important thing in
understanding why evil exists. - answer✔Theodicy
The main problem with ethical subjectivism is that ____ - answer✔it cannot explain how people can be
wrong
Pascal's "wager" is based mainly on the supposition that _______. - answer✔one cannot lose anything
of value by wagering on God's existence
In "The Ethics of Belief," W.K. Clifford argues that _______. - answer✔it is always wrong to believe
anything under insufficient evidence
The term ethics comes from the notion of - answer✔a way of life
The term value refers to something with _______. - answer✔an intrinsic worth
Which of the following is a moral question? - answer✔Is the death penalty a just punishment?
Ethical subjectivism is the view that _______. - answer✔each person determines what is morally right
The purpose of normative ethics is to _______. - answer✔find out what people ought to do, morally
speaking
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