PHI 2010 UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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PHI 2010 UPDATED Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Augustine - CORRECT ANSWER- Leading figure in the medieval period
Copernicus - CORRECT ANSWER- an initiator of scientific
Descartes - CORRECT ANSWER- french philosopher
Diotima - CORRECT ANSWER- influenced Socrates
PHI 2010 UPDATED Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Augustine - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ Leading figure in the medieval period
Copernicus - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ an initiator of scientific
Descartes - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ french philosopher
Diotima - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ influenced Socrates
Pelagius - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ contemporary of Augustine
Socrates - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ Key figure in Plato's dialogue
If all of the philosophical questions in Chapter One share a common thread, it is that
answering them - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ requires you to articulate what you believe
about yourself and the world.
Some psychologists, such as B.F. Skinner, believed that there are no such things as "minds,"
but that people do nothing more than "behave," which is just moving their bodies and making
sounds according to certain stimulations from the environment. - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔
True
Philosophy, very often, proceeds through - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ disagreement
An important philosophical question is whether a good person (one who does no evil and
does everything he or she is supposed to do) would necessarily be happy. - CORRECT
ANSWER-✔✔ True
The philosopher Socrates did not willingly go to his death, because he believed he had the
right to life. - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ False
,In Plato's Symposium, Diotima argues that - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ procreation is the
nearest thing to immortality that a mortal can attain.
Descartes' approach to philosophy was to doubt everything until he could prove it to his own
satisfaction. The first premise of his philosophy was - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ the
indubitability of his own existence.
Descartes thinks that he is always dreaming. - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ False
Convention - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ general agreement
Determinism - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ The thesis that all events are caused
Determinists - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ Philosophers that believe that every event has a
cause
Freedom - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ act without cause/ act freely
Happiness Box - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ a thought experiment
Libertarianism - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ freedom from government
Philosophy - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ Love of wisdom
Our senses never deceive us. - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ False
In the ancient Greek tragedy Iphigenia, the warrior Agamemnon assured victory in the Trojan
War by sacrificing one innocent child. - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ True
,People who believe that a person is always responsible for his or her actions, even if he or she
seems forced into them, - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ are libertarians.
It is sometimes suggested that what makes human beings unique is that, unlike cows or
mosquitos, - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ we are reflective.
Writing up a list of virtues is a way of - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ seeing what we value in
ourselves and what kind of a person we think is ideal.
If there are no guarantees of ultimate reward and punishment, - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔
then it still does not follow that there are no reasons to be good.
Both important decisions and trivial incidents can inspire philosophical questions. -
CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ True
It is impossible to imagine societies in which people are happy and prosperous, while not
being free. - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ False
Scientists tell us that we are right when we believe that ordinary material objects, like chairs,
are solid objects. - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ False
Unlike his contemporary, Pelagius, Augustine thought it was more important to have faith
than to do good works. - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ True
The point behind philosophical questions in general is to teach us how to arrive at answers
that are so clear and convincing that we will cease our questioning. - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔ False
We already admit the rule to not kill other people has exceptions. If, then, we encounter a
band of cannibals that has long practiced the custom of killing and eating the weakest among
them, then - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ we can't condemn their actions because we believe
that killing is always wrong.
, Descartes claims that it is true that - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ None of these answers.
About five hundred years ago, Copernicus was one of the first people to question the belief
that - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ the sun moved around the earth.
If there are no guarantees of ultimate reward and punishment, - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔
then it still does not follow that there are no reasons to be good.
St. Augustine and Pelagius argued about whether - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ it is more
important to believe in God or to do good works.
By pondering the question of whether you should step into the "happiness box," you will
learn about - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ what you value.
We already admit the rule to not kill other people has exceptions. If, then, we encounter a
band of cannibals that has long practiced the custom of killing and eating the weakest among
them, then - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ we can't condemn their actions because we believe
that killing is always wrong.
The old quip, "There are no atheists in foxholes," seems to mean that when faced with death,
we all search for some ultimate source of support. - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ True
It is sometimes suggested that what makes human beings unique is that, unlike cows or
mosquitos, - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ we are reflective.
About five hundred years ago, Copernicus was one of the first people to question the belief
that - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ the sun moved around the earth.
Unlike his contemporary, Pelagius, Augustine thought it was more important to have faith
than to do good works. - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ True
In Plato's Symposium, Diotima argues that - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔ procreation is the
nearest thing to immortality that a mortal can attain.
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