Final Exam Study Questions
1. How does Socrates define justice in the city and justice in the individual?
2. Explain and critically evaluate the three arguments Socrates gives in book IX for the
view that the life of the just person is better than the life of the unjust person
3. Explain and critically evaluate the ontological argument for the existence of God (this
is the argument Descartes discusses in Meditation 5)
4. Explain the two versions of the mind/body problem that we discussed in class.
5. What is indirect realism? How does Berkeley use the mind/body problem to argue
against indirect realism?
6 What is direct realism? What is the perceptual relativity argument against direct
realism?
7. What is indirect realism? Explain why Berkeley thinks indirect realism leads
inevitably to skepticism about the physical world.
8. What is the distinction between primary and secondary qualities? What are Berkeley’s
two arguments against this distinction?
9. What is the idealist theory of physical things advocated by Berkeley?
10. Explain why Berkeley thinks that God provides the best explanation for our
perceptual ideas.