CoPhilosophyFall 2011 Factual Questions

Section 16

• What god was the God of Destruction? • Group 5 Section 16

• True or false: Kant’s great ideas can be summarized as “God, Reason, and Immorality?”

• What is the book in which “The Myth of the Cave” came from?

Which philosopher suggested that the world was surrounded and ultimately born from water?

Group 3 (16)

• How many Noble Truth’s are there?– A. 8– B. 4– C. 6– D. 3

Group 1 (16)

• What is the earliest vedas?• Group 2 (16)

• Who focused on the ethical and social conduct that would be conductive to a harmonious community?

• Group 2 (16)

• In 399 BC Socrates was brought to trial, charged with “corrupting the minds” of his students and famously executed. True or False?

• Group 4 (16)

• Who was the supreme God of Zoroastrianism?• A) Shiva• B) Ahura Mazda• C) Allah• D) Buddha

• How do the authors of PW define logos?

• Group 1 (16)

• Which of the following is not one of the three levels of time and reality in Meso-American philosophy?

• A. Ordinary• B. Spiritual• C. Mythical• D. Divine

What does dogmatic mean?a)Crazyb)Close Mindedc) Niced)Open minded• Group 3, 16

• What is the philosophical ideal of the Stoics summarized as?

• A: Apathy• B: Hatred• C: Love

Aristotle most rejected Plato’s theory of Forms.A: TrueB: False

Group 1 -16

3(16)

• Who assumed that the mind was a blank tablet to be written by experience throughout ones life?

• Who wrote the Social Contract• A: Hobbes• B: Rousseau• C: Locke• D: Hume

• Who was Adam Smith’s best friend?• A: Thomas Jefferson• B: George Washington• C: David Hume

• What is the claim that, from a given cause, the effect necessarily follows?

• A: Determinism• B: Pantheism• C: Logic

• Montaigne had recommended tolerance, Decartes instead recommeded reason.

• True• False