PHI 100 WEEK 2 QUIZ
1 The concept of idealism can be attributed to Pythagoras of ancient Greece.
a. True
b. False
Hint: p. 145
SLO6:Identify key philosophical vocabulary, including but not limited to: monism, dualism, cosmology, rationalism, empiricism, hedonism, asceticism, materialism, and idealism.
LO6A:Discuss materialism and idealism
2. Dewey believed that philosophy arose out of people's struggles to deal with social and moral problems.
a. True
b. False
Hint:p. 50
SLO6:Identify key philosophical vocabulary, including but not limited to: monism, dualism, cosmology, rationalism, empiricism, hedonism, asceticism, materialism, and idealism.
LO6A:Discuss materialism and idealism
3. According to Husserl held that relativism was tautological - that it was true in all instances.
a. True
b. False
Hint:p. 172
SLO2:Discuss the contributions of major philosophers.
LO2B:Describe what Being is for Heidegger and Sartre
4. St. Augustine found it difficult to believe that spirits were real.
a. True
b. False
Hint: p. 58
SLO6:Identify key philosophical vocabulary, including but not limited to: monism, dualism, cosmology, rationalism, empiricism, hedonism, asceticism, materialism, and idealism.
LO6A:Discuss materialism and idealism
5. Newton believed that all material bodies in the universe were governed by universal laws of nature.
a. True
b. False
Hint: p. 50
SLO6:Identify key philosophical vocabulary, including but not limited to: monism, dualism, cosmology, rationalism, empiricism, hedonism, asceticism, materialism, and idealism.
LO6A:Discuss materialism and idealism
6. Which pragmatist was concerned with the logical implications of ideas?
a. John Dewey
b. C.S. Pierce
c. William James
d. Elmer Sprague
Hint: p. 60
SLO6:Identify key philosophical vocabulary, including but not limited to: monism, dualism, cosmology, rationalism, empiricism, hedonism, asceticism, materialism, and idealism.
LO6D:Examine the pragmatism's approach to philosophy and its method for determining the nature of reality
7. Vasubandhu claimed that we directly perceive the objects in the world around us.
a. True
b. False
Hint: p. 55
SLO6:Identify key philosophical vocabulary, including but not limited to: monism, dualism, cosmology, rationalism, empiricism, hedonism, asceticism, materialism, and idealism.
LO6A:Discuss materialism and idealism
8. Heidegger was influenced by which view?
a. James' pragmatism
b. Ayer's positivism
c. Husserl's phenomenology
d. Descartes' skepticism
Hint:p. 80
SLO2:Discuss the contributions of major philosophers.
LO2B:Describe what Being is for Heidegger and Sartre
9. The Charvaka philosophers were spiritualists.
a. True
b. False
Hint: p. 98
SLO6:Identify key philosophical vocabulary, including but not limited to: monism, dualism, cosmology, rationalism, empiricism, hedonism, asceticism, materialism, and idealism.
LO6A:Discuss materialism and idealism
10. Sartre endorses:
a. libertarianism.
b. determinism.
c. LaPlacianism.
d. psychologism.
Hint: 74
SLO2:Discuss the contributions of major philosophers.
LO2B:Describe what Being is for Heidegger and Sartre
11. Hobbes believed that there was more to the universe than measureable matter.
a. True
b. False
Hint: p. 49
SLO6:Identify key philosophical vocabulary, including but not limited to: monism, dualism, cosmology, rationalism, empiricism, hedonism, asceticism, materialism, and idealism.
LO6A:Discuss materialism and idealism
12. Who is best known for writing of our own human being in the world, our Dasein?
a. James
b. Husserl
c. Heidegger
d. Plato
Hint:p. 49
SLO2:Discuss the contributions of major philosophers.
LO2B:Describe what Being is for Heidegger and Sartre
13. Who was also known as the Lokyata?
a. The Buddhists
b. The Hindus
c. The Charvakas
d. The Augustinians
Hint: p. 95
SLO6:Identify key philosophical vocabulary, including but not limited to: monism, dualism, cosmology, rationalism, empiricism, hedonism, asceticism, materialism, and idealism.
LO6A:Discuss materialism and idealism
14. Hobbes believed that:
a. only matter is real.
b. only spirit is real.
c. the world is composed of both matter and spirit.
d. the world cannot be known.
Hint:p. 49
SLO6:Identify key philosophical vocabulary, including but not limited to: monism, dualism, cosmology, rationalism, empiricism, hedonism, asceticism, materialism, and idealism.
LO6A:Discuss materialism and idealism
15. The view that whatever I perceive is merely one of my perceptions or a collection of them is known as:
a. subjective idealism.
b. objective idealism.
c. subjective materialism.
d. objective materialism.
Hint: p. 55
SLO6:Identify key philosophical vocabulary, including but not limited to: monism, dualism, cosmology, rationalism, empiricism, hedonism, asceticism, materialism, and idealism.
LO6C:Explain why our assumptions about what is real are vitally important
16. Charvaka held to inductive reasoning, the generalizing about what we observe.
a. True
b. False
Hint: p. 138
SLO6:Identify key philosophical vocabulary, including but not limited to: monism, dualism, cosmology, rationalism, empiricism, hedonism, asceticism, materialism, and idealism.
LO6A:Discuss materialism and idealism
17. Monism is the metaphysical view that reality is only one kind of thing.
a. True
b. False
Hint: p. 162
SLO6:Identify key philosophical vocabulary, including but not limited to: monism, dualism, cosmology, rationalism, empiricism, hedonism, asceticism, materialism, and idealism.
LO6A:Discuss materialism and idealism
18. Thomas Hobbes endorses:
a. libertarianism.
b. compatibilism.
c. determinism.
d. existentialism.
Hint: p. 80
SLO6:Identify key philosophical vocabulary, including but not limited to: monism, dualism, cosmology, rationalism, empiricism, hedonism, asceticism, materialism, and idealism.
LO6A:Discuss materialism and idealism
19. Sartre rejects indeterminism -a feature of looking at ourselves and our actions.
a. True
b. False
Hint:p. 191
SLO2:Discuss the contributions of major philosophers.
LO2B:Describe what Being is for Heidegger and Sartre
20. Hobbes believed that our mental states are states of our brain.
a. True
b. False
Hint: p. 49
SLO6:Identify key philosophical vocabulary, including but not limited to: monism, dualism, cosmology, rationalism, empiricism, hedonism, asceticism, materialism, and idealism.
LO6A:Discuss materialism and idealism
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