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PHIL 3109 Exam 1 Questions And Answers Latest Update
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- PHILOSOPHY 3109
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- Dominican University Of California
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PHIL 3109 Exam 1 Questions And Answers
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What is philosophy? ANS✔✔ *Using reason to support your position on a
topic*
-Opinion + reasonings for opinion
-Not just an opinion, but reasons behind it
-Philosophers are trying to get to the bottom of things/what society should
be doing/what is right or wrong
*Analysis of Concepts*
Who was Socrates? ANS✔✔ -Greek philospher
-Homeless, did not write anything
-Went around Athens, spent most time in Agrith; went up to people with
authority and had debates with them (i.e. asking judge what justice is) -
talked about making progress
-Built a following for doing this type of thing; what is just and unjust
-One of his followers was Plato
Who was Plato? ANS✔✔ -Student of Socrates, wrote about Socrates
-Writes dialogues (called this because they look like plays), each book was
the name of the person Socrates was talking to
-Plays were probably false, so it is thought that Plato was the real genius
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-Socrates said his sentence should be putting him up in a museum and
feeding him for his life, but ended up being killed
-Plato went on to found the Academy (philosophy school), one of his
students was Aristotle
Who was Aristotle? ANS✔✔ -Student of Plato
-Wrote a shelf of books with names like "Biology," "Ethics"
-Inventing all of these different fields
-His physics is what people believed for 2000 years
-Tutored Alexander the Great
What are aesthetics? ANS✔✔ the study of art and beauty: what makes
something beautiful/art?
"beauty is in the eye of the beholder" is a philosophical position
What is political philosophy? ANS✔✔ what type of society/government/rights
should we have? what are rights? what is justice?
-feminist philosophy
-death penalty
What is metaphysics philosophy? ANS✔✔ what is behind what exists? what
is time, what does existence mean? what does it mean for matter to be here
at all?
What is philosophy of mind? ANS✔✔ what is a mind, what is a thought, can
a computer ever think like a person?
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What is logic philosophy? ANS✔✔ -take content out of philosophical
arguments and turn them into an equation; look at structure rather than
content
What is philosophy of science? ANS✔✔ what is the scientific method and
how does it work? what type of truth does science get us to? what does
science do? what does testing even mean?
What is philosophy of technology? ANS✔✔ what is technology? how does it
influence us? how does it shape our decision-making, how does it affect
society?
What is the social contract account of defining a profession? ANS✔✔ -on the
one hand: high expertise, competent service, regulations
-on the other hand: above-average wages, prestige, freedom of self-
regulation (in exchange for high expertise, etc. you get these things)
What is Davis's Group Professing Account of defining a profession? ANS✔✔
1. Made of multiple people
2. Public element; one "professes"
3. Earn a living
4. Enter voluntarily
5. Morally desirable goal
6. Pursed through morally permissible means
7. Go beyond what is otherwise required
What is the Sociological Account of defining a profession? ANS✔✔ 1.
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