History of Philosophy
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Course Introduction
History of Philosophy explores the development of philosophical thought from ancient to modern times, tracing key ideas, arguments, and figures that have shaped the intellectual landscape of the Western and non-Western worlds. The course examines the contributions of influential philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, and others, while situating their work within broader historical, social, and cultural contexts. Students are introduced to major philosophical movements such as scholasticism, empiricism, rationalism, and existentialism and learn how fundamental questions about knowledge, reality, morality, and human existence have been addressed across different eras. Through critical analysis of primary texts and philosophical debates, learners gain an appreciation for the evolving nature of philosophy and its enduring relevance to contemporary issues.
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Philosophy A Text with Readings 12th Edition by Manuel Velasquez
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Chapter 1: The Nature of Philosophy
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Q1) What is the goal of philosophy?
A) Autonomy
B) Angst
C) Authority
D) Ambivalence
Answer: A
Q2) Monotheism is the belief that there is just ____________________ ____________________.
Answer: one God
Q3) The philosopher Harry Browne upholds what philosophical view?
A) determinism
B) skepticism
C) egoism
D) materialism
Answer: C
Q4) Holbach was a determinist.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Human Nature
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Q1) Bad faith,according to Jean-Paul Sartre,is deceiving ourselves by pretending we are free.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Descartes' view of human nature says that humans are ____________________ minds with ____________________ bodies.
Answer: immaterial,material
Q3) What philosopher argues that our ability to reason is the characteristic that sets the human self apart from all other creatures of nature?
A) Plato
B) Aristotle
C) Saint Augustine
D) Charles Darwin
Answer: B
Q4) Aristotle held that all living things have a purpose.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Reality and Being
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Q1) ____________________ ____________________ appeals to general statements to reach its logical conclusions.
Answer: Deductive reasoning
Q2) Newton believed that all material bodies in the universe were governed by universal laws of nature.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Dewey believed that philosophy arose out of people's struggles to deal with social and political problems.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) The Charvaka philosophers were spiritualists.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q5) According to James,pragmatism looks towards ____________________ things. Answer: last
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Chapter 4: Philosophy, Religion, and God
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Q1) Which statement best characterizes John Hick's position?
A) The reason God allows suffering in this life is to punish us when we have gone astray.
B) A good God would make our life completely free of pain.
C) God is dead.
D) A world without suffering would be unsatisfactory and people could not develop into virtuous beings.
Q2) Charles Darwin's theory of evolution raised problems for which theistic argument?
A) the cosmological argument
B) the ontological argument
C) pragmatic justifications of religious belief
D) the argument by design
Q3) Aquinas offered a version of the cosmological argument.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Ninian Smart suggests that religion has four dimensions.
A)True
B)False
Q5) ____________________ denies the major claims of all varieties of theism.
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Chapter 5: The Sources of Knowledge
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Q1) In what way does Descartes' rationalism require the existence of a benevolent God? Do you believe that Descartes has successfully established the existence of this God,or do you think that his arguments for God's existence are circular,resting as they do on his "clear and distinct" perceptions whose veridicality seems to be given by God's benevolence?
Q2) Berkeley was an atheist.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Locke was an empiricist.
A)True
B)False
Q4) ____________________ claimed that both rationalists and empiricists take partial notions for real parts.
Q5) Descartes argued that human beings are born with innate ideas of the three fundamental kinds of things in the universe:
A) sense perception, ideas and concepts.
B) God, minds and material bodies.
C) understanding, sense perception and material bodies.
D) God, material bodies and properties of material bodies.
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Chapter 6: Truth
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Q1) Austin held that we could use a language to talk with each other even if there were no rules governing its use.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to the ____ theory of truth a statement is true if it is useful to believe.
A) pragmatic
B) coherence
C) foundationalist
D) correspondence
Q3) Which of the following logician and philosopher argues that truth is a property of sentences?
A) Alvin Goldman
B) C. I. Lewis
C) Alfred Tarski
D) John Searle
Q4) Rorty is a pragmatist about truth.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Statements or sentences express the contents of our ____________________.
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Chapter 7: Ethics
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Q1) The second version of the categorical imperative says A) treat people as an end and never as a means only.
B) decide if the consequences of your action would make people happy.
C) ask yourself if you would want everyone to follow your example.
D) think about how you would feel if people knew what you did.
Q2) Do you believe that an Aristotelian virtue ethicist is committed to being concerned with the virtue of caring? If so,in what way would Aristotle's views need to be revised¾if at all? If not,explain why not.
Q3) Which of the following philosophers was a hedonist?
A) Harry Browne
B) Plato
C) Epicurus
D) James Rachel
Q4) ____________________ ____________________ denies the existence of a single,universally applicable moral standard.
Q5) Aquinas defended the principle of double effect.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Bentham developed a(n)____________________ calculus.
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Q7) John Finnis endorses ____________________ ____________________ ethics.
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Chapter 8: Social and Political Philosophy
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Q1) God's decrees for the governance of the universe was termed by Aquinas divine or ____________________ law.
Q2) Who is being quoted in this passage? "Benefits and burdens are distributed justly when society allows every individual the freedom to do what he chooses to do for himself or for others,the freedom to keep what he makes for himself or what others choose to give him,and the freedom to keep what he has or give it to whomever he chooses."
A) John Rawls
B) Karl Marx
C) John Stuart Mill
D) Robert Nozick
Q3) Who wrote of the "General Will"?
A) Locke
B) Rosseau
C) Hobbes
D) Plato
Q4) Mill's central concern in On Liberty is the freedom of the
Q5) Rousseau was a social contract theorist.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Postscript: The Meaning of Life
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Q1) The view that there is no larger whole or part to which we can contribute is
A) Communism
B) Virtue ethics
C) Socialism
D) Nihilism
Q2) Kai Nielsen claims that
A) The theistic response makes an illogical jump.
B) The theistic response is correct
C) The theistic responses affirms the consequent
D) The theistic response needs modification only
Q3) Rudolf Carnap endorsed:
A) Pragmatism
B) Idealism
C) Antirealism
D) Logical positivism
Q4) Do you believe that there are limits on subjective meaning? Are there certain activities that are objectively pointless,even if someone values them highly? If you believe that there are such limits on subjective meaning,explain how we can determine them.If you believe that there are not,would you say that a person who was delusional could have a meaningful life?
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