Straighterline Introduction to Philosophy
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According to Val Plumwood, how does the rationalistic framework view the human self?
- ANSWER As autonomous, separate, and egoistic.
According to Mary Wollstonecraft, which of the following virtues should be cultivated in
women as well as men? - ANSWER wisdom
How do feminists like Andrea Dworkin and Ctharine MacKinnon define pornography? -
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? - ANSWER They get devalued and take on demeaning, derogatory,
and insulting senses.
What is true of woman, according to Simone de Beauvoir? - ANSWER Woman is not born
but made by society's definition of her as man's Other.
What do supporters of the "Androgynous Ideal" believe about the differences we
observe between men and women? - ANSWER They are socially constructed.
According to Nancy Chodorow, why do boys often become isolated, separate, and misogynist? -
ANSWER Society requires that boys break personal identification with the mother in order to
positionally identify with male gender roles imposed by society.
Which position does Susan Moller Okin advocate? - ANSWER The modern, middle-class family
is an unjust institution for women.
, What did Anselm believe about proving God's existence? - ANSWER You could do it using
just the concept of God as the greatest being conceivable.
St. Thomas Aquinas's first three ways are all versions of which sort of argument? - ANSWER
Cosmological
How did mystical experience compare with reason as a source of knowledge about God,
according to Julian of Norwich? - ANSWER It is as valid a source of knowledge as reason is.
Given his epistemological standards, what characteristic must all of Descartes arguments for
God possess? - ANSWER They must yield conclusions that are absolutely certain.
According to Leibniz, what is the sufficient reason for the changing of the seasons? - ANSWER
God.
Given his epistemological standards, what characteristic would Hume insist that any argument
for God possess? - ANSWER It must be based on sensory experience.
Why didn't Immanuel Kant think that existence is a property or characteristic of a thing? -
ANSWER A characteristic always adds something to the concept of a thing, but existence does
not do this.
What kind of an argument did Kant use to justify the rationality of belief in God? - ANSWER
Moral
What is truth, for Soren Kierkegaard? - ANSWER How you live if it is with
passionate commitment.
What would Mary Daly say about the image of God the Father? - ANSWER It perpetuates the
polarization of human qualities built into the traditional sexual stereotypes.
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