Phil Oliver Exam 1 Questions & Answers 2024/2025
Name 2 ways to earn a base: - ANSWERSShow up to class, respond to discussion posts
How can you earn a base when you are not present? - ANSWERS500 word essay
What are Dr. Olivers office hours? Where is his office? What is his e-mail? - ANSW...
Name 2 ways to earn a base: - ANSWERSShow up to class, respond to discussion posts
How can you earn a base when you are not present? - ANSWERS500 word essay
What are Dr. Olivers office hours? Where is his office? What is his e-mail? - ANSWERST-Th 11:15-12:54,
JUB 300, phil.oliver@mtsu.edu
What does William James consider the most interesting and important thing about each of us? -
ANSWERSHow your philosophy determines the perspective of your different worlds.
How does James define "the philosophy which is so important to each of us? - ANSWERSIt isn't technical,
it is more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means.
What is the difference between "tough and tender-minded" philosophies? - ANSWERSTender Minded- is
going by principals
Tough Minded- is going of off facts
What philosopher tried to "justify the ways God to man, and to prove that the world we live in is the
best of possible worlds" and what did James think about him? - ANSWERSLeibnitz. He considers his work
too obvious.
In "What is Philosophy For?", what does "wise" mean? - ANSWERSWise means attempting to live well
and die well.
What remarkable phrases was the catalyst for Kurt Andersen in writing Fantasyland? - ANSWERSReality
based community.
, Who coined "truthiness" - ANSWERSStephan Colbert
Why does Andersen think Americans are so "fantasy prone"? - ANSWERSBecause being American means
we can think anything we want.
What 2 big ideas did Martin Luther set the stage for in F.L? - ANSWERS1. Insisted that clergymen have no
special access to God or Jesus or truth.
2. belief in the Bible's supernatural stories, especially those concerning Jesus, was the only pre-requisite
to being a good Christian.
When was the iconic pale blue dot photo taken and at whose instigation? - ANSWERSFebruary 14, 1990
at Satan's request by Voyager 1.
The pbd gives no hint of what? - ANSWERSThat help will come elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
What does Sagan say the pbd underscores? - ANSWERSOur responsibilities to deal more kindly with one
another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only one we've ever known.
What poet said, "the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for
the first time?" - ANSWERST.S Eliot
What will be the anniversary significance of July, 20, 2019 for todays topic? - ANSWERS50th anniversary
of Apollo 11 and Neil Armstrong "one small step for a man"
What was the pioneer plague? - ANSWERSIn 1972, an attempt to contact extra terrestrial life was cast
into space with the launch of Pioneer 10.
What were Aristotle's followers callled? - ANSWERSPeripatetics
Who said his mind only worked with his legs? - ANSWERSJean-Jacques Rousseau
Whose mentor called walking "gymnastics for the mind"? - ANSWERSHenry David Thoreau
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