Archetypes of Wisdom An Introduction to Philosophy, Soccio, 8e - Exam Preparation Test Bank (Downloadable Doc)

Chapter 1—Philosophy and the Search for Wisdom




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1. Philosophy is an important part of your life.


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2. You have to be a philosopher to ask philosophical questions.


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3. Originally, an "amateur" was motivated by love, not by profit.


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4. The word "philosophy" is from the Greek, meaning "love of wisdom".


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5. Philosophy consists of careful reasoning about certain kinds of issues.


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6. Philosophy only concerns the nature of God.


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, 7. Philosophical questions can be answered in the same way as mathematical questions.


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8. Metaphysics raises questions that go beyond the scope of ordinary science.


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9. Epistemology is a comic approach to philosophy.


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10. Relativism is an ethical issue.


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11. In parts of Africa, a wise person was known as a witch doctor.


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12. In the ancient world, a wise person was known as a "thyme".


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13. C. G. Jung wrote of "archetypes".


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14. "Archetype" is another word for "ideal".

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15. Logic is an area of philosophy.


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16. A utilitarian believes that pain is inherently bad.


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17. "Majority rules" thinking reflects a utilitarian approach to philosophy.


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18. A stereotype is a simplistic distortion of a person.


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19. Doubting Thomas was a skeptic.


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20. Durant held that philosophy might give us a healing unity of soul.


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21. Philosophers are always men.


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, 22. Ayn Rand was a philosopher.


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23. Volmar was an early woman philosopher who had visions.


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24. Women are still underrepresented in many fields.


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25. Spinoza said that he did not know how to teach philosophy.


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26. Philosophy is perhaps the most open of subjects.


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27. The best philosophers defer to all arguments.


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28. Walter Kaufman held that the history of philosophy was the history of heresy.


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