Introduction to Philosophy Exam Bank
Course Introduction
Introduction to Philosophy explores fundamental questions about existence, knowledge, morality, mind, and reality through the works of major philosophers and classic texts. Students will develop critical thinking and analytical skills by examining diverse philosophical themes such as the nature of truth, free will, ethics, and the basis of human knowledge. By engaging in thoughtful discussion and analysis, this course provides a broad overview of the methods and concepts that have shaped philosophical inquiry from ancient to modern times.
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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) Genevieve Lloyd is a(n)____________________ philosopher.
Answer: feminist
Q2) What is the goal of philosophy?
A) Autonomy
B) Angst
C) Authority
D) Ambivalence
Answer: A
Q3) Who wrote: "Freedom is not caprice,nor is Karma necessity."
A) Plato
B) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
C) Viktor Frankl
D) Buddha
Answer: B
Q4) Who said that whatever the gods love is holy?
A) Socrates
B) Plato
C) Euripides
D) Euthyphro
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Human Nature
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Q1) The view that "all humans have a rational spiritual self that is distinct from its body" is the
A) Buddhist view
B) Rational View
C) Traditional View
D) Hindu View
Answer: C
Q2) What philosopher argued that our individual identity depends on relationships with others,such that who we are cannot be separated from our relationship with others?
A) Aristotle
B) Hegel
C) Plato
D) George Mavrodes
Answer: B
Q3) J.J.C.Smart argued that states of consciousness are identical with states of the brain.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Reality and Being
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Q1) What philosopher,in his book Man a Machine,argued that humans are nothing more than complex machines?
A) Karl Marx
B) Democritus
C) Julien Offray de La Mettrie
D) Vasubandhu
Answer: C
Q2) Vasubandhu claimed that we directly perceive the objects in the world around us.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) What contemporary Canadian philosopher argues that all the things in the universe are thoughts in the mind of God?
A) John Leslie
B) John Rawls
C) Josiah Royce
D) F. H. Bradley
Answer: A
Q4) According to James,pragmatism looks towards ____________________ things.
Answer: last
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Chapter 4: Philosophy, Religion, and God
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Q1) Brahman is the Hindu word for A) evil.
B) the soul.
C) the moral law of cause and effect.
D) ultimate reality.
Q2) The ontological argument argues for the existence of God on the basis of
A) the mere idea we have of God.
B) the deep-seated conviction that there is a purpose and meaning to human life.
C) the evidence of design in the universe.
D) the need for a first cause that brought the universe into existence.
Q3) Aquinas offered a version of the cosmological argument.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Aquinas contended that there could be no ____________________ ____________________ in the casual sequences of the universe.
Q5) Who,in 1802,presented a version of the design argument?
A) Paley
B) Pascal
C) Hume
D) Hicks
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Chapter 5: The Sources of Knowledge
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Q1) ____________________ claimed that both rationalists and empiricists take partial notions for real parts.
Q2) How might the event described in Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" be used to undermine empiricism?
Q3) Berkeley was an atheist.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What philosopher argued that hallucinations,dreams and other illusions give rise to errors that we "sublate" when we see that they are contradicted by other things our senses show us in the world around us?
A) G. W. F. Hegel
B) Rene Descartes
C) Shankara
D) John Locke
Q5) Do you agree with Hume that we cannot know whether our ideas about reality are accurate? What assumption does Hume make when he makes this claim? Do you believe that this assumption is justified?
Q6) ____________________ developed the view that is now known as transcendental idealism.
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Chapter 6: Truth
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Q1) Who argued that the truth of an idea depends on the practical difference it makes?
A) Hume
B) Locke
C) James
D) Russell
Q2) Gettier examples assume
A) That people are justified in believing things when they rely on their past experiences
B) That justified true belief constitutes knowledge
C) That people are justified in believing things when they rely on others' testimony
D) That people can only rely on their senses for knowledge
Q3) Outline the two ways in which God and right acts might be related,according to the Euthyphro dialogue discussed in Chapter 1.If we believe that acts are right because God loves them,how do we know which acts are right acts? How might the problem of interpretation be relevant to the most obvious answer to this question?
Q4) The realist view of scientific truth is a version of the ____________________ theory of truth.
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Chapter 7: Ethics
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Q1) Plato discussed three active principles in each person: reason,spirit,and anger.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Donald Levy believes that sexual acts that cannot result in reproduction are wrong.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which one of the following was not included in Bentham's hedonistic calculus?
A) Intensity: How strong is the pleasure?
B) Duration: How long will the pleasure last?
C) Value: Is the pleasure a lower, physical pleasure or a higher, intellectual pleasure?
D) Extent: How many people will be affected?
Q4) Epictetus was a(n)
A) Stoic
B) Aristotelian
C) Epicurean
D) Platonist
Q5) Aristotle argued that (true) ____________________ is based on two people's mutual recognition of the goodness of the other.
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Chapter 8: Social and Political Philosophy
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Q1) Rousseau was a social contract theorist.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In this chapter,the philosopher who defined a right as a justified entitlement or claim on others was
A) Thomas Jefferson
B) Martin Luther King, Jr.
C) H. J. McCloskey
D) Michael Sandel
Q3) Which two needs does Hobbes believes drive human action?
A) Personal gain and love of others
B) Personal gain and survival
C) Love of others and survival
D) Love of others and desire for peace
Q4) Hegel believed that the state was ____________________ ____________________ than the individual.
Q5) Nozick was a welfare liberal.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Mill's central concern in On Liberty is the freedom of the
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Chapter 9: Postscript: The Meaning of Life
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Q1) Do you believe that the question of whether our lives have meaning can be settled merely by appealing to events that occur during them¾or could events that occur after our lives affect their meaning? For example,suppose that a person spent her life writing a novel that her friend promised to publish posthumously,but as soon as she died her friend destroyed it.Would the posthumous destruction of her work affect the meaning of the novelist's life in any way? Argue for your view here.
Q2) The ____________________ ____________________,such as Ayer and Carnap,held that the question of whether life has any meaning was itself meaningless.
Q3) Nihilism is the claim that
A) the meaning of life can be found in a relationship to God.
B) life has no meaning.
C) pleasure is the only thing that gives life meaning.
D) the meaning of life can be found in different ways for different people.
Q4) The ____________________ response to the question of what the meaning of life is led Tolstoy out of his depression.
Q5) Aquinas' view can be called the ____________________ response to the question of meaning.
Q6) Hegel called the modern nations the ____________________ nations.
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