Philosophy and Society Exam Review
Course Introduction
This course explores the dynamic relationship between philosophical thought and the fabric of society, examining how fundamental philosophical concepts influence social structures, cultural norms, and ethical values. Students will engage with classical and contemporary philosophical texts to analyze issues such as justice, freedom, equality, and multiculturalism. By investigating the ways in which philosophical ideas are manifested and challenged within social institutions and everyday life, the course fosters critical thinking about the role of philosophy in shaping public discourse and addressing pressing societal concerns.
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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) Harry Browne's view that morality is a sham because humans always try to satisfy themselves is called ____________________.
Answer: egoism
Q2) What philosopher argues for determinism,the view that all things and all human beings are unfree?
A) Paul Henri d'Holbach
B) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
C) Viktor Frankl
D) Plato
Answer: A
Q3) The belief that there is just one God is
A) Pantheism
B) Agnosticism
C) Monotheism
D) Heresy
Answer: C
Q4) Philosophy begins with wonder.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Human Nature
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Q1) ____________________ argued that a person's culture is the mirror through which society shows her who and what she is.
Answer: Hegel
Q2) An argument that is supposed to show that its conclusion is probably true if its premises are true is called
A) deductive
B) inductive
C) sound
D) valid
Answer: B
Q3) What contemporary American philosopher argued that behind every action we perform is a "self-regarding end"?
A) Mark Mercer
B) Sigmund Freud
C) Jean Paul-Sartre
D) Garrett J. DeWeese
Answer: A
Q4) ____________________ is the view that humans are made up of two substances.
Answer: Dualism
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Chapter 3: Reality and Being
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Q1) The view that there are many realities and that realities are constructed by the many languages of the cultures and subcultures is called
A) pragmatism.
B) existentialism.
C) postmodernism.
D) realism.
Answer: C
Q2) Hobbes believed that
A) Only matter is real
B) Only spirit is real
C) The world is composed of both matter and spirit
D) The world cannot be known
Answer: A
Q3) The view that whatever I perceive is merely one of my perceptions or a collection of them is known as
A) Subjective idealism
B) Objective idealism
C) Subjective materialism
D) Objective materialism
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Philosophy, Religion, and God
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Q1) Who argued that the concept of an absolutely necessary being is not proven by the fact that reason apparently requires this?
A) Aquinas
B) Kant
C) Anselm
D) Guanilo
Q2) The Second Noble Truth identifies the source of the suffering that we experience in living as ____________________.
Q3) 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.
Q4) Tillich contends that instead of viewing God as a being we should view him as
Q5) The argument from design is often called the ____________________ argument.
Q6) Samsara ends with ____________________.
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Chapter 5: The Sources of Knowledge
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Q1) Descartes believed that our knowledge of was derived from our senses.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Personal memory,according to your textbook,is
A) our ability to remember how to do something that we learned in the past.
B) is our ability to remember all the facts that make up our knowledge of the world.
C) our ability to bring into our present consciousness a representation of events that we directly experienced in the past.
D) our ability to bring into our present consciousness a representation of imaginary beings.
Q3) Critical realists hold that only ____________________ ____________________ is present in the consciousness of objects.
Q4) George Berkeley called his position
A) skepticism.
B) rationalism.
C) materialism.
D) immaterialism.
Q5) Locke held that ____________________ qualities are subjective.
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Chapter 6: Truth
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Q1) What philosopher wrote: "The world is the totallity of facts,not of things."?
A) Thomas Aquinas
B) Hans-Georg Gadamer
C) Ludwig Wittgenstein
D) Wilhelm Dilthey
Q2) Which of the following philosophers proposed a version of the correspondence theory of truth?
A) Rudolf Carnap
B) Clarence I. Lewis
C) Bertrand Russell
D) George Bishop Berkeley
Q3) There are only two major theories of truth.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Bertrand Russell endorsed the ____________________ theory of truth.
Q5) A basic belief is one that does not need to be justified by other beliefs.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Propositions that we cannot know unless we observe the world are called empirical,or ____________________ propositions.
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Chapter 7: Ethics
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Q1) Donald Levy believes that sexual acts that cannot result in reproduction are wrong.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Do you believe that a theory of what makes an action right should also provide an account of why we should perform right actions? If you do not,explain what you think the purpose of moral theories is,if they are not intended to motivate persons to do the right thing.If you do think that moral theories should be prescriptive in this sense,choose either (a)Kantian deontology,or (b)utilitarianism,and asses how well their achieve this end.
Q3) Aquinas defended the principle of double effect.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following philosophers was a hedonist?
A) Harry Browne
B) Plato
C) Epicurus
D) James Rachel
Q5) Aristotle wrote that human beings can be happy only if they fulfill their basic human
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Chapter 8: Social and Political Philosophy
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Q1) Hume believed that everyone was equal.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Who wrote of the "General Will"?
A) Locke
B) Rosseau
C) Hobbes
D) Plato
Q3) What philosopher associated justice with merit,in the sense that individuals are treated and given a station in life according to their talents and accomplishments?
A) Plato
B) Aristotle
C) Thomas Hobbes
D) Karl Marx
Q4) ____________________ argues that people should realize their human potential through productive work that exercises their capacities.
Q5) Zeno rejected Stoicism.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Postscript: The Meaning of Life
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Q1) 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.
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) Sartre was a theist.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Rudolf Carnap endorsed:
A) Pragmatism
B) Idealism
C) Antirealism
D) Logical positivism
Q5) Aquinas' view can be called the ____________________ response to the question of meaning.
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