PHIL 170 Test Questions And Correct Answers
According to Camus, the question of the meaning of life is: - Answer -the most urgent of questions
.According to Hume, ideas must come from impressions, but there is no impression from which the idea of self comes; therefore: - Answer -there is no s...
According to Camus, the question of the meaning of life is: - Answer -the most urgent of
questions
.According to Hume, ideas must come from impressions, but there is no impression
from which the idea of self comes; therefore: - Answer -there is no self
.According to James, the pragmatic method is to interpret each notion by: - Answer -
examining its practical consequences
.According to Locke, personal identity consists in: - Answer -having the same
consciousness
.According to Russell, a theory of truth must: - Answer -allow for falsehood, assume that
truth & falsehood are properties of belief, and assume that truth or falsehood depends
on something external to beliefs
.An important objection to the coherence theory of truth is that there is no proof that
there can be: - Answer -only one coherent system of beliefs
.Are moral decisions always as arbitrary or subjective as Sartre would have us believe?
Are there any counterexamples to Sartre's example of the young student? - Answer -
.Being aware of one's life and one's freedom is: - Answer -living to the maximum
.Descartes argues against trusting the senses on the grounds that: - Answer -they
sometimes deceive him
.Descartes had been disillusioned by his discovery that many of the alleged truths
learned in his youth were: - Answer -false
.Descartes reasons that the very fact that he is thinking shows that: - Answer -he exists
.Descartes says that for all he knows, he may be: - Answer -dreaming, deceived by
God, or deceived by an evil demon
.Descartes thinks that only propositions that are beyond all doubt can be considered
knowledge. Do you agree with this? Do we know things that are not beyond all possible
doubt? - Answer -
.Do you agree with Hume that "self" is merely a stream of consciousness and not a
substance or distinct entity? Explain. - Answer -I agree that the "self" is just a stream of
, consciousness because we can't directly reflect our experiences or see ourselves acting
(recount copies of our experiences) - our "I" constantly changes because it's just a
bundle of perceptions with gaps in between; new experience have no bearing on how
we will be in the future
.Do you think there are any dangers in defining truth as that which would be better for
us to believe? Why or why not? - Answer -There are definitely dangers in defining the
truth as that which would be better for us to believe. Lenny from Memento knowingly set
himself up to kill Teddy only to forget it moments later - this is dangerous because he
uses his condition to his advantage to seek revenge instead of moving on; he thinks he
is giving himself a purpose by seeking out a John G. and that Teddy will be the last
John G. But after he's killed, what's next?
.How is the Allegory of the Cave a metaphor for the search for the true and the good
through philosophy? - Answer -the darkness of the cave represents the beliefs that
people readily accept as truth and the light represents the actual knowledge that can be
found beyond the confines of the cave
.If God does not exist: - Answer -everything is permissable
.If personal identity consists in sameness of consciousness, then having the same
person present at the resurrection (where everyone would presumably have a different
body) would be: - Answer -possible
.In the cave allegory, the reaction of the prisoners to the enlightened one is: - Answer -
to revile him as a ridiculous fool
.Is success or usefulness the correct criterion of truth? Why or why not? Can you think
of counterexamples to the theory—that is, can you find examples in which an idea is
useful or successful but seems not to be true? - Answer -Success or usefulness should
not be the correct criterion of truth because it allows an individual to live in their own
reality that is independent from the real world - an example would be Mal from
Inception; she felt that the world she built with Dom in the dream world was a sufficient
reality. But when she actually came back to the real world, she was convinced that she
was still dreaming which led to her demise.
.On Locke's account, how is memory involved in the notion of personal identity? -
Answer -Memory is the link to personal identity - personal identity consists of sameness
of rational being & memory of all sensations/experiences; Jack and Tyler from Fight
Club are separate people because they have distinct memories, but it is plausible for
them to merge into a third person that recalls both of their memories
.On Russell's view, what are the problems inherent in the coherence theory of truth? -
Answer -He believes that the coherence system of belief, while it claims that there is no
objective truth within our grasp, actually must require the objective truth so that way two
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