Straighterline Introduction to Philosophy Final Study/Straighterline Introduction to Philosophy Final Study/Straighterline Introduction to Philosophy Final Study
Straighterline Introduction to Philosophy
Final Study
Aristotle's primary area of interest was - correct answer metaphysics.
Which of the following is not one of the ten basic categories Aristotle used to
describe the ways in which humans think about things? - correct answer weight
How many souls did Aristotle believe humans have? - correct answer three
Aristotle's works include all of the following except: - correct answer
Nicomachean Ethics
What is a thing, according to Aristotle? - correct answer A specific form in a
particular hunk of matter.
What does Aristotle mean by the efficient cause of a thing? - correct answer
Where it came from.
If you want to say what a thing is, which of Aristotle's four causes must you
provide? - correct answer The formal cause.
What did Aristotle say about all change? - correct answer It is a movement from
potentiality to actuality.
Which of the following is an example of what Aristotle called a universal? -
correct answer The property of being red.
What is a syllogism? - correct answer A kind of inference.
What is not true of Hinduism? - correct answer It has no scriptures or holy
writings.
What is the central doctrine of the Upanishads? - correct answer The identity of
Brahman and Atman.
What is the main cause of human suffering, according to Siddhartha Gautama? -
correct answer Ignorance and selfish craving.
Which is not a characteristic of the Tao, for Taoists? - correct answer Man can
improve it.
According to Confucius, this principle governs both the well-ordered family and
the well-ordered state. - correct answer The principle of the Mean.
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Final Study
Which would Mencius say true happiness consists in? - correct answer Seeing
parents and family alive and well and free from anxiety.
What must one do to discover ultimate reality and truth, according to Hui Neng,
sixth patriarch of Ch'an Buddhism? - correct answer Give up false attachments
and selfish interests.
What Mahayana Buddhist view did Murasi Shikibu object to? - correct answer
Women must wait for reincarnation as a male before they can achieve
enlightenment.
Which did Dogen Zenji advocate? - correct answer The Parental Mind.
What do samurai warriors believe in? - correct answer All of the above.
Why is diversity a challenge for modern feminism? - correct answer Race, class,
and gender are tied together in ways that make working-class and minority
women disadvantaged in different ways from middle-class white women.
Why are feminist epistemologists suspicous of the concept of the ideal knower as
dispassionate, objective, and purely rational? - correct answer This makes the
ideal knower rather like the ideal male.
According to Val Plumwood, how does the rationalistic framework view the
human self? - correct answer As autonomous, separate, and egoistic.
According to Mary Wollstonecraft, which of the following virtues should be
cultivated in women as well as men? - correct answer wisdom
How do feminists like Andrea Dworkin and Ctharine MacKinnon define
pornography? - correct answer Media that both equates sex and violence against
women, and endorses it.
What tends to be true of words associated with women, their occupations, and
their bodies in a male-dominated society? - correct answer They get devalued
and take on demeaning, derogatory, and insulting senses.
What is true of woman, according to Simone de Beauvoir? - correct answer
Woman is not born but made by society's definition of her as man's Other.
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