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Q1) If we know our own mind directly and without any doubts,it follows that we can know other people's minds directly as well.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is the argument from analogy for other minds?
Q3) A person's self-identity consists in
A) only a particular description,such as "I am from Toledo."
B) only a general description,such as "I am a human being."
C) both a general and a particular description.
D) neither a general nor a particular description.
Q4) The image of man as "an onion," with hundreds of different layers (selves),and no core,was developed by
A) Dewey.
B) Sartre.
C) Hesse.
D) Hegel.
Q5) What is Adam Smith's "invisible hand"?
Q6) Describe Aristophanes fable or myth of the origins of love.
Q7) Why is it false to call emotions irrational or unintelligent?
Q8) What is solipsism?
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Chapter 7: Freedom
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Q1) One reason the determinist's claim that every event has a sufficient explanation seems hard to disagree with is that
A) it implies that negative freedom is possible.
B) it implies that positive freedom is possible.
C) it appears to be a basic presupposition of knowledge.
D) it was embraced by Plato.
Q2) What is the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic freedom?
Q3) If a man holds a gun to my head and forces me to give him my wallet,then
A) I am not free.
B) I have no choice.
C) I am only negatively free.
D) I have nonetheless freely chosen not to fight and be shot.
Q4) Existentialists agree with Kant in asserting that A) determinism is false.
B) soft determinism is false.
C) even if determinism is false,we must take the tragic view of ourselves as necessarily unfree.
D) even if determinism is true,we must always view ourselves as agents as necessarily free.
Q5) What is the difference between negative freedom and positive freedom?
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Chapter 8: Morality and the Good Life
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Q1) Hedonism is the view that says the good life involves
A) living successfully.
B) getting as much pleasure out of life as you possibly can.
C) living an ascetical life.
D) living a life of freedom.
Q2) Someone who is an ethical egoist must also believe in psychological egoism.
A)True
B)False
Q3) For Ancient Greeks,such as Aristotle,the good life
A) was a matter of attaining a feeling of well-being.
B) was inner satisfaction.
C) was a matter of attaining economic success.
D) was a public,social,objective life of achievement and good fortune.
Q4) Nietzsche believed that the true beneficiaries of traditional Judeo-Christian morality were
A) strong,noble,creative individuals.
B) weak,ignoble individuals.
C) members of the master race.
D) everyone alive.
Q5) What is autonomy?
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Chapter 9: Justice and the Good Society
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Q1) Why isn't legitimate political power accurately expressed in the formula "might makes right"?
Q2) As best we know,human beings at one time lived exclusively as solitary individuals.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A society governed by the Marxist view of distributive justice might have a difficult time ensuring that its members are motivated to work and innovate.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Assuming you live in a country with taxes,how would a social contract theorist understand your obligation to pay your fair share of taxes?
Q5) If feminists are correct,then Beauvoir's statement "One is not born a woman" is true. A)True
B)False
Q6) Contrast the differences between Martin Luther King and Malcolm X's visions of the means to achieving racial justice.
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Chapter 10: Non-Western Philosophy
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Q1) The Mayan and Aztec tradition of human sacrifice is probably linked to their beliefs that blood was the fundamental life force.
A)True
B)False
Q2) For Daoism,wuwei involves acting non-assertively,taking one's cues from one's situation and going with the flow.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The belief that created beings flow forth from God's activity as pure thinking is attributed to
A) Zoroaster.
B) al-Kindi.
C) al-Farabi.
D) Ibn-Sina.
Q4) Unlike Ibn-Rushd (Averroes),al-Farabi sought to demonstrate that revealed truth and the conclusions of reason coincide,so that neither faith nor reason have priority.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Beauty
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Q1) Socrates,in Plato's Symposium argues that the seeker of beauty will come to recognize that
A) the beauty in every form is one and the same.
B) there are many different forms of beauty,each unique unto itself.
C) the ultimate value of the beauty in things we can sense.
D) God is beauty.
Q2) Kant believed that if you and a friend genuinely shared an aesthetic experience of a work of art,this would be because
A) you both agreed with the experts.
B) you both had the same emotional experience.
C) you both had taken a disinterested aesthetic perspective.
D) you both shared the same preferences.
Q3) Aesthetic questions are limited to the realm of formally produced art,such as music and paintings.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Why does Kant believe that sharing an aesthetic experience with others depends on having a disinterested perspective?
Q5) Contrast Nietzsche's concepts of Apollonian and Dionysian art.
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