Phil 201 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

BYU PHIL 201 Test 1 Correctly Answered 2024 Rated A+. When was the firmament of heaven created? - CORRECT ANSWER The second day of creation (Genesis 1:6-8) How did Adam become like the gods? - CORRECT ANSWER By partaking of the fruit & learning to differentiate good from evil What first came to be? (Hesiod) - CORRECT ANSWER Chaos What are the five generations of men made by the deathless gods? - CORRECT ANSWER The golden age The silver age The bronze age The heroic age The iro...

UVIC PHIL 201 - Exam 1 Material Review Study Guide 2024. Argument - CORRECT ANSWER - A set of sentences, statements or propositions - A collection or premises that justify, or are supposed to justify, a conclusion Premise - CORRECT ANSWER - A statement intended to provide rational support for some other statement, often in conjunction with other ____________. Conclusion - CORRECT ANSWER - A statement intended to be rationally supported by a set of premises Inference - CORRECT ANS...

PHIL 201 Questions Correctly Answered 2024. Aristotle's stayed in Plato's school for how many years? - CORRECT ANSWER 20 Aristotle started his own school called what? - CORRECT ANSWER Lyseum Aristotle neomalcum ethics was named for his - CORRECT ANSWER his son Aristotle believed that the good is the aim of - CORRECT ANSWER all action Happiness for Aristotle is - CORRECT ANSWER praise the highest good Aristotle used the term for excellence called - CORRECT ANSWER virtue A...

Phil 201 Chapter 3 Quizzes Correctly Answered 2024. Surface Freedom - CORRECT ANSWER The ability to satisfy one's desires without interference (e.g. the ability to practice the religion of one's choice, etc.) Agent - CORRECT ANSWER A person who performs an action Determinism - CORRECT ANSWER The view that (given the antecedent conditions and laws of nature) there is only one causally possible future Ultimate Responsibility - CORRECT ANSWER The origins of an action are "in me," ...

Phil 201 Chapter 5 Review Practice Questions 2024. fallacy - CORRECT ANSWER an argument form that is both common and defective; a recurring mistake in reasoning Informal Fallacy - CORRECT ANSWER is detected by looking at the content of the argument. Formal Fallacy - CORRECT ANSWER results from an invalid argument form. Only deductive arguments can have formal fallacies. Genetic Fallacy - CORRECT ANSWER The fallacy of arguing that a claim is true or false solely because of its origi...

PHIL 201 Exam 1 Questions Correctly Answered 2024 Latest Update. Axiology - CORRECT ANSWER study of value (aesthetics, ethics, moral philosophy Epistemology - CORRECT ANSWER study of knowledge (what is knowledge? What can I know? Metaphysics - CORRECT ANSWER study of the nature of being The problem of justification - CORRECT ANSWER knowledge is impossible because knowledge requires evidence that is justified but any justification is further evidence that needs to be justified. An i...

PHIL 201 Exam Latest Verified Answers 2024. What is "first philosophy" according to Descartes? (Remember the tree of human knowledge?) [What fundamental things which all other studies rely on does Descartes study in the Meditations?] - CORRECT ANSWER The "first philosophy" is "I experience, therefore I exist". In the tree of human knowledge, the roots are the first philosophy, the trunk is physics and the branches are other sciences. What ultimate goal does Descartes want to achie...

Philosophy 201 BYU Study Guide Exam 2024. Nature of God - CORRECT ANSWER The qualities that combine to make up what God is That he is good, That he is omnipotent and omniscient That he created everything that is Original sin - CORRECT ANSWER The fallen state of human nature into which all generations of people are born. This due to Adam and Eve partaking of the fruit Odyssey (Homer) - CORRECT ANSWER Epic poem that chronicles Odysseus' 10 year struggle to return to his throne in It...

Philosophy 201 Practice Test Questions 2024. The Mind-Body Problem - CORRECT ANSWER Are mind and body separate and distinct, or is the mind simply the physical brain's subjective experience? Physicalism - CORRECT ANSWER The doctrine that the real world consists simply of the physical world. Therefore, it argues, the mind is a purely physical construct, and will eventually be explained entirely by physical theory, as it continues to evolve. Dualism - CORRECT ANSWER seeing mind and bod...

Philosophy 201 Review Practice Questions 2024. What does philosophy mean? - CORRECT ANSWER Derived from two Greek words: "philein" meaning to love and "sophia" meaning wisdom. Philosophy means the love of exercising one's curiosity and intelligence. How does Pythagoras characterize a philosopher's activity in contrast with the activities of an athlete and a businessperson? - CORRECT ANSWER Pythagoras claimed philosophers' activity was to seek truth through contemplation. In contra...