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Discovering Philosophy, Portfolio Edition
2nd Edition, 2008
ISBN 13: 9780132302128
Thomas I. White
Prentice Hall
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Philosophical questions are conceptual in nature; ________________ deal in probability and plausibility rather than absolute truth and falsehood.
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Philosophical uncertainties
B. Philosophical answers
C. Philosophical doubts
D. Philosophical statements
2. A major philosophical concept, ________________, deals with basic human characteristics and similar traits in other beings like chimpanzees and dolphins.
A. Personhood
B. Selfhood
C. Self-being
D. Primitive self
3. “A square has four sides” is a necessary and sufficient condition for defining a square.
A. True
B. False
4. The potions riddle in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” is an excellent example of logical thinking.
A. True
B. False
5. If someone is a student at Hogwart’s, then he or she is studying witchcraft and wizardry. Neville Longbottom is a student at Hogwart’s. Therefore, Neville Longbottom is studying witchcraft and wizardry. This is an excellent example of Modus Ponens, or the Asserting Rule.
A. True
B. False
6. Analytical thinking is the philosophical application of psychoanalysis.
A. True
B. False
7. Crossing the finish line first in a race in which you competed fairly and without cheating is a necessary and sufficient condition for you to be the winner.
A. True
B. False
8. B.F. Skinner believes that human freedom is impossible.
A. True
A. True
B. False
9. The theory of free will implies about responsibility that because our actions result from our own choices, we are fully responsible for them.
A. True
B. False
10. Aristotle agrees with the following statement: The more we understand people, the more we know how little responsibility they have for their actions.
A. True
B. False
25. According to Ellis, irrational beliefs prove that determinism is correct.
A. True
B. False
11. In a religious approach to ethics, faith and the authority of sacred texts have the final word.
A. True
B. False
12. If an action is legal, it is also morally right.
A. True
B. False
13. Jeremy Bentham writes, “Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do.”
A. True
B. False
14. As Bentham and Mill are classic representatives of act-oriented ethics, so Immanuel Kant created the model for results-oriented ethics.
A. True
B. False
15. Kant argues that a morally good action must have intrinsic worth.
A. True
B. False
16. Plato thinks that we are made up of three parts, physical, ________, and intellectual.
A. Spirited
B. Emotional
C. Truthful
D. Consciousnesses
17. Plato believes that in the unhealthy soul there is an inappropriate balance among the three parts.
A. True
B. False
18. Socrates thinks that wrongdoing “is in every way harmful and shameful to the wrong- doer.”
A. True
B. False
19. Socrates thinks that unethical actions have no effect on our ability to act virtuously.
A. True
B. False
20. When Socrates says that, “the unexamined life is not worth living,” he is recommending one way to avoid the harm that can come from acting unethically.
A. True
B. False
21. Socrates probably sees the non-cognitive effects of vice as involving loss of the mind’s ability to argue forcefully for the value of the ethical life.
A. True
B. False
22. Skinner’s society, Walden Two, is primarily an agricultural community.
A. True
B. False
23. The kind of government that Plato recommends in his ideal society is a religious government.
A. True
B. False
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