Philosophy of Human Nature
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Course Introduction
Philosophy of Human Nature explores fundamental questions about what it means to be human, examining the nature, origins, and purpose of human beings through philosophical inquiry. The course delves into diverse perspectives on consciousness, free will, personal identity, morality, and the relationship between mind and body. Students will engage with classical and contemporary sources from major philosophical traditions to analyze concepts such as rationality, emotions, sociality, and the human place in the natural order. By critically examining these issues, the course aims to foster a deeper understanding of ourselves and our place in the world.
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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 philosopher argued that service toward others is our primary moral duty?
A) Aristotle
B) Mahatma Gandhi
C) Plato
D) Harry Browne
Answer: B
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) Perictione suggests that philosophy is ultimately a search for an understanding of why we and our universe are here.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) ____________________ is the love and pursuit of wisdom.
Answer: Philosophy
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Chapter 2: Human Nature
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Q1) Behaviorism began as a school of ____________________ that restricted the study of humans to what could be observed.
Answer: psychology
Q2) ____________________ is the view that humans are made up of two substances.
Answer: Dualism
Q3) The view that humans are whatever they make themselves is termed A) Darwinism
B) Buddhism
C) Existentialism
D) Platonism
Answer: C
Q4) The philosophical view that human beings act only out of self-interest is called A) natural selection
B) psychological egoism
C) altruism
D) existentialism
Answer: B
Q5) One version of ____________________ is the identity theory of the mind.
Answer: materialism
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Chapter 3: Reality and Being
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Q1) Sartre endorses
A) Libertarianism
B) Determinism
C) LaPlacianism
D) Psychologism
Answer: A
Q2) According to James,pragmatism looks towards ____________________ things. Answer: last
Q3) 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
Q4) ____________________ idealism contains elements of both objective and subjective idealism.
Answer: Berkeley's
Q5) ____________________ ____________________ appeals to general statements to reach its logical conclusions.
Answer: Deductive reasoning
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Chapter 4: Philosophy, Religion, and God
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Q1) Paley was the first to develop the argument from design.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Third Noble Truth concerns the ending of samsara.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In your textbook,one of the refutation's of the argument from design made by David Hume was that
A) the analogy between human creation and the universe is weak.
B) God has all the limitations of human creators.
C) existence is a property that makes a being more perfect.
D) it was logically impossible for the world to have always existed without a beginning.
Q4) One objection to the design argument comes from the theory of evolution.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Tillich is a proponent of ____________________ ____________________.
Q6) Samsara ends with ____________________.
Q7) The Second Noble Truth identifies the source of the suffering that we experience in living as ____________________.
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Chapter 5: The Sources of Knowledge
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Q1) According to Jainism,the practice of ____ is key to our future liberation.It basically means the avoidance of all aggression,injury,or harm to other living things.
A) ahimsa
B) empiricism
C) rationalism
D) satyagraha
Q2) Knowledge that does not depend on sense experience is ____________________ ____________________ knowledge.
Q3) Are there any differences between Descartes' skepticism and that of Hume? If you think that there are,outline them,and explain how they might have contributed to the different epistemological views of these two philosophers.If you think that there are no such differences between the skepticisms of these two philosophers,provide an explanation of how their respective epistemologies are so different from each other.
Q4) ____________________ developed the view that is now known as transcendental idealism.
Q5) Anne Conway was an empiricist.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Truth
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Q1) Which of the following philosophers accepted the coherence theory of truth?
A) Dharmakirti
B) Vatsyayana
C) John Dewey
D) Charles S. Peirce
Q2) Propositions that we cannot know unless we observe the world are called empirical,or ____________________ propositions.
Q3) No Eastern philosophers accept the pragmatic view of truth.
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to the ____________________ theory of truth a belief is (true) if it coheres with other beliefs that we regard as (true).
Q5) How many kinds of particles and forces are recognized in the standard theory of matter?
A) Three kinds of particles, four kinds of forces
B) Four kinds of forces, three kinds of particles
C) Three kinds of particles, three kinds of forces
D) Four kinds of forces, four kinds of forces
Q6) Bertrand Russell endorsed the ____________________ theory of truth.
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Chapter 7: Ethics
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Q1) Kant's categorical imperative states that we should do something only if we are willing to have the maxim governing our action become ____________________
Q2) The view that only pleasure is worth having for its own sake is
A) Hedonism
B) Consequentialism
C) Egoism
D) Deontology
Q3) Divine command theory is a(n)____ ethical theory.
A) consequentialist
B) nonconsequentialist
C) deontological
D) utilitarian
Q4) Which of the following philosophers was a hedonist?
A) Harry Browne
B) Plato
C) Epicurus
D) James Rachel
Q5) ____________________ consists of the standards that an individual or a group has about what is right and wrong.
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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) Plato believed that individuals were naturally equal.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In opposition to social contract theory,David Hume argued
A) the government must have absolute power in order to avoid chaos.
B) the government derives its authority from God.
C) there is no legitimate authority for government.
D) governments are formed by conquest or succession.
Q4) Pacifists assert that morality applies to the relations between nations.
A)True
B)False
Q5) 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
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) Hegel called the modern nations the ____________________ nations.
Q2) Kierkegaard held that life could only have meaning if we commit ourselves to a cause or ideal that we know is worth pursuing.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Richard Taylor argues for the view that
A) Life has no meaning
B) History is progressing
C) History is over
D) Life has meaning
Q4) Karl Marx denied that history showed progress.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Who said,"So the ultimate purpose of human beings is to know God"?
A) Leo Tolstoy
B) Thomas Aquinas
C) Albert Camus
D) Georg W. F. Hegel
Q6) For Marx,the perfect future world would be a(n)____________________ society.
Q7) Schopenhauer held that all good things are ____________________.
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