Straighterline Philosophy 101 Tests Compilation Bundle

According to Aristotle, human happiness consists of: correct answer: Pleasure According to Plato, when the intellect itself is governed by reason, we exhibit: correct answer: Wisdom Which of the following ideas was central to Thomas Hobbes's philosophy of values? correct answer: Good and e...

2 Greek words for Philosophy correct answer: Philein- love of Sophia-Wisdom or knowledge Philosophical steps for problem solving correct answer: Define the problem Define the circumstances surrounding it Use logic, argument, the Socratic method, & opponents fallacies as tools Epistemology ...

Which of the following branches of philosophy does NOT involve questions related to values? correct answer: Metaphysics In philosophy, what is an argument? correct answer: Giving reasons for a belief. What fallacy is it when an argument assumes only two options when in fact there are more? c...

What is the cause of change for Empedocles? correct answer: Love and strife. Three of Plato's more enlightening and well-known dialogs are: correct answer: Apology, Republic and Meno What is a syllogism? correct answer: A kind of inference What did Aristotle say about all change? correc...

Aristotle's primary area of interest was correct answer: metaphysics. Which of the following is not one of the ten basic categories Aristotle used to describe the ways in which humans think about things? correct answer: weight How many souls did Aristotle believe humans have? correct answer...

Aristotle's primary area of interest was correct answer: metaphysics. Which of the following is not one of the ten basic categories Aristotle used to describe the ways in which humans think about things? correct answer: weight How many souls did Aristotle believe humans have? correct answer...

What does Aristotle mean by the efficient cause of a thing? correct answer: Where it came from. Which is a theme common to all the pre-Socratics? correct answer: The experienced world is a manifestation of a more fundamental underlying reality. What did the Atomists do? correct answer: They...

According to David Hume, what do we directly observe? correct answer: Sense impressions According to Immanuel Kant, the world being "noumenal" means the _____. correct answer: World as it is in itself, independent of our experiences According to David Hume, why can't past experience justi...

Which of the following pieces of advice is more likely to come from a Stoic? correct answer: Become self-reliant and accept your fate in life with serenity and calm indifference. According to St. Augustine, moral evil comes from _____. correct answer: misdirected love Which of the following ...

Identify a true statement about Hume concerning the arguments for the existence of God. correct answer: His empiricist epistemological principles rule out the possibility of any meaningful ontological argument. According to Leibniz, what is the sufficient reason for the changing of the seasons? ...

According to Leibniz, what is the sufficient reason for the changing of the seasons? correct answer: God. Who among the following is NOT a proponent of "intelligent design"? correct answer: Richard Dawkins According to Julian of Norwich, how did mystical experience compare with reason as a...

In what does human happiness consist, according to Aristotle? correct answer: All of the above. ( Pleasure.Intellectual virtue.Moral virtue.) Antirepresentationalists like Richard Rorty always deny this claim. correct answer: True beliefs somehow picture or mirror reality. Existentialists al...

According to David Hume, what do we directly observe? correct answer: sense impressions According to Hume, why can't we have knowledge on the relation of cause and effect? correct answer: We can never observe a necessary connection between events. Which of the following statements is true a...

According to David Hume, what do we directly observe? correct answer: sense impressions According to David Hume, why can't past experience justify claims about the future? correct answer: We can never know whether or not the future will be like the past Arguments that attempt to establish s...