Quiz: FINAL EXAM 7/25/19, 5:03 PM FINAL EXAM Started: Jul 25 at 4:31pm Quiz Instructions Question 1 2 pts Who is most closely associated with the phrase "esse est percipi?" Berkeley Conway Locke Descartes Question 2 2 pts George Berkeley denied that matter existed. True False Question 3 2 pts John Locke claimed that at birth our minds are: an area of conflict for the id and superego https://online.smc.edu/courses/22714/quizzes/87666/take Page 1 of 18 Quiz: FINAL EXAM 7/25/19, 5:03 PM like blank slates stocked with innate ideas or dispositionsa structured a priori Question 4 2 pts "Representative Realism" is the theory that we perceive objects indirectly by means of our "representations"of them. True False Question 5 2 pts In his search for a belief beyond doubt, Descartes claimed that I think therefore I am Evil begets evil Ignorance is the root of misfortune To be is to be priveleged Question 6 2 pts According to Descartes, cogito ergo sum, means "I think, therefore I am." https://online.smc.edu/courses/22714/quizzes/87666/take Page 2 of 18 Quiz: FINAL EXAM 7/25/19, 5:03 PM True False Question 7 2 pts The first thing Descartes found himself unable to doubt was the existence of God the existence of the angel Gabriel. the existence of a self the truth of metaphysical claims Question 8 2 pts Descartes's motive in using the methods of skeptics was to destroy any possibility of certain knowledge whatsoever. False True Question 9 2 pts Benedictus de Spinoza was a pantheist. https://online.smc.edu/courses/22714/quizzes/87666/take Page 3 of 18 Quiz: FINAL EXAM 7/25/19, 5:03 PM True False Question 10 2 pts For Spinoza, a active emotion is one which increases the conatus or life force. This means that love, for instances, enhances one's life. True False Question 11 2 pts In spinoza's system, human free will is an illusion. False True Question 12 2 pts Kierkegaard spoke of a development of a person's consciousness through three stages: moral, immortal, immoral good, bad, and the ugly the camel, lion, and child https://online.smc.edu/courses/22714/quizzes/87666/take Page 4 of 18 Quiz: FINAL EXAM 7/25/19, 5:03 PM aesthetic, ethical, religious Question 13 2 pts Kierkegaard believed that finding one's personal truth was one of the highest things a person can do. False True Question 14 2 pts The camel stage represented a rebellion against the tyranny of values in Nietzsche's philosophy. False True Question 15 2 pts Simone de Beauvoir was a contemporary of Sartre who believed that existentialism supported women's right to choose, even though the history of sexism portrayed women as the second sex. True https://online.smc.edu/courses/22714/quizzes/87666/take Page 5 of 18 Quiz: FINAL EXAM 7/25/19, 5:03 PM False Question 16 2 pts Martin Heidegger's work focused primarily on: the meaning of justice the meaning of art the meaning of being the logical status of scientific laws Question 17 2 pts Heidegger associates getting lost with "everydayness" -- the unthinking life and inauthentic communication (or chatter). False True Question 18 2 pts According to the later Heidegger, we should dwell simply in Being, not in the thingafied world of modern, technical human. True https://online.smc.edu/courses/22714/quizzes/87666/take Page 6 of 18 Quiz: FINAL EXAM 7/25/19, 5:03 PM False Question 19 2 pts Who is considered the founder of phenomenology: A.J. Ayer Edmund Husser Jean Paul Sartre Martin Heidegger Question 20 2 pts In the phenomenology of Husserl "bracketing" is: The use of a brace or strut to support something such as our existential being Grouping together the world of facts and the world of values Setting aside the natural standpoint so only consciousness remains Grouping together only the facts revealed by the natural standpoint Question 21 2 pts International capitalism is viewed with great suspicion by most postcolonial thinkers. https://online.smc.edu/courses/22714/quizzes/87666/take Page 7 of 18 Quiz: FINAL EXAM 7/25/19, 5:03 PM True False Question 22 2 pts According to most postcolonial thinkers, what best explains the shared revolutionary consciousness of dominated people everywhere? Basic universal human psychology The conceptual similarities of ideas introduced by the colonizing powers Shared similaries in each people's experiences of foreign domination They don't think an explanation is needed since there are not any commonalities to speak of Question 23 2 pts What do all poscolonical thinkers agree is needed to restore a good life to oppressed people? Justice Religion Socialism Capitalism Question 24 https://online.smc.edu/courses/22714/quizzes/87666/take 2 pts Page 8 of 18 Quiz: FINAL EXAM 7/25/19, 5:03 PM Desmund Tutu of South Africa supports the death penalty for whites guilty of crimes against blacks during Aparteid. True False Question 25 2 pts Mohandas Gandhi thought that violence did have a place in the Indian Independence Movement. True False Question 26 2 pts What best represents the general goal of pan-African philosophy: the creation of a purely modern, African consciousness that willl replace the various tribal and ethnic traditions. the total political and economic unity of Africa into a single nation. return to pure African traditionalism The reconciliation of the traditional and the modern in Africa and among the descendents of Africans. Question 27 https://online.smc.edu/courses/22714/quizzes/87666/take 2 pts Page 9 of 18 Quiz: FINAL EXAM 7/25/19, 5:03 PM Which of the following is not a characteristic of the third wave of feminism? Rejects binary distinctions between men and women Supports transsexuals Includes conflicting strands of theory Rejects sex positive philosoophies Question 28 2 pts Which of the following developed what she called maternal thinking? Nel Noddings Sarah Ruddick Nancy Chodorow Carol Giligan Question 29 2 pts bell hooks rejects the "careerism" focus of white, middle class feminism. True False https://online.smc.edu/courses/22714/quizzes/87666/take Page 10 of 18 Quiz: FINAL EXAM 7/25/19, 5:03 PM Question 30 2 pts According to Mary Wollstonecraft, which of the following virtues should be cultivated in women as well as men: dependence wisdom sensitivity docility Question 31 2 pts According to Nancy Chodorow why do boys often becomes isolated, separate and mysogynist? They are often teased and rejected by girsls at a young age. Mass media, advertising and entertainment combine to produce this result. Society requires that boys break personal identification with the mother in order to positionally identify with male gender roles imposed by society Boys are naturally this way according to greater amounts of testosterone Question 32 2 pts What tends to be about words associated with women, their occupations, and their bodies in a male dominated society? https://online.smc.edu/courses/22714/quizzes/87666/take Page 11 of 18 Quiz: FINAL EXAM 7/25/19, 5:03 PM They get transformed into male virtues They get devalued and take on demeaning, derogratory senses They vanish from the conversational landscape They get reified into objects beyond the human realm Question 33 2 pts According to Kant, moral laws are grounded in God's commands. culturally relative. contingent and apply only to human beings. necessary and apply to all rational beings. Question 34 2 pts According to Kant, morality requires us to: act only on maxims that we can will to become universal laws. perform the action that leads to the greatest total happiness. behave only in such a way as a perfectly virtuous person would behave. place the interests of others above the interests of ourselves. https://online.smc.edu/courses/22714/quizzes/87666/take Page 12 of 18 Quiz: FINAL EXAM 7/25/19, 5:03 PM Question 35 2 pts According to Kant, what remains beyond our understanding is: the formal structures of ordinary experience an answer to Hume's skepticism regarding causality the ding an sich, or the thing-in-itself the moral law Question 36 2 pts According to Kant, the moral worth of an action depends on: the moral character of the agent who performs it. the consequences of the action. all of the above. the maxim that is acted on. Question 37 2 pts In Sartre’s view, when one chooses how to live one is choosing: for all of one’s friends. only for oneself. https://online.smc.edu/courses/22714/quizzes/87666/take Page 13 of 18 Quiz: FINAL EXAM 7/25/19, 5:03 PM for all people. for all of one’s family. Question 38 2 pts According to Sartre, humans are both thrown into existence and condemned to freedom. False True Question 39 2 pts Jean Paul Sartre thought that humans come into existence already with a purpose to their existence and thus a meaning to their lives. False True Question 40 2 pts According to Sartre, the existentialist finds the fact that God does not exist: very distressing. unimportant. liberating. https://online.smc.edu/courses/22714/quizzes/87666/take Page 14 of 18 Quiz: FINAL EXAM 7/25/19, 5:03 PM clarifying. Question 41 2 pts What all existentialists have in common, according to Sartre, is the view that: existence precedes essence. God does not exist, and so everything is permitted. all humans share a common nature. essence precedes existence. Question 42 2 pts What was the fundamental philosophical question for Albert Camus? Will I survive death? Does God exist? Is there any reason not to commit suicide? What should I wear to my funeral? Question 43 2 pts How can we give life purpose in a purposeless world, according to Camus? https://online.smc.edu/courses/22714/quizzes/87666/take Page 15 of 18 Quiz: FINAL EXAM 7/25/19, 5:03 PM Seek God. Rebel against the absurd. Kill yourself. It can't be done. Question 44 2 pts Camus claims that knowing whether man is free is: of no interest to him. easy for the common man, but difficult for the philosopher. crucial to determining whether life is absurd. the most important problem of metaphysics. Question 45 2 pts Camus claims that we should respond to the recognition that life is absurd by: refusing to hope. committing suicide. taking steps so that one’s life is no longer absurd. ignoring it. https://online.smc.edu/courses/22714/quizzes/87666/take Page 16 of 18 Quiz: FINAL EXAM 7/25/19, 5:03 PM Question 46 2 pts For existentialists: the soul, while not immortal, can live for over two centuries humans must do good works to attain salvation the soul and the mind are the same thing humans are self-defining Question 47 2 pts Existentialists believe that most people lead dull, senseless, trivial lives filled with anguish and despair. False True Question 48 2 pts Which is not a theme an existentialist would be likely to accept? Metaphysics can reveal the reason and purpose of life. Life is meaningless and irrational. Each individual is alone in the world. Most people live dull, limited and unfulfilling lives. https://online.smc.edu/courses/22714/quizzes/87666/take Page 17 of 18 Quiz: FINAL EXAM 7/25/19, 5:03 PM Question 49 2 pts Kafka's short story, "Metamorphosis," addresses the intrinsic good within individuals to treat each other with respect and dignity. False True Question 50 2 pts Existentialists also believe that philosophy should focus on the big picture, not on individuals and their confrontation with the world. False True Quiz saved at 5:02pm https://online.smc.edu/courses/22714/quizzes/87666/take Submit Quiz Page 18 of 18
