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Modern Philosophy

Question 1 of 58

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Father of modern thought

Select one of the following:

  • Rene Descartes

  • David Hume

  • John Locke

  • Immanuel Kant

Explanation

Question 2 of 58

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believed that we are born with tabula rosa

Select one of the following:

  • Rene Descartes

  • John Locke

  • Immanuel Kant

  • Thomas Reid

Explanation

Question 3 of 58

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"is" does not mean "ought"

Select one of the following:

  • Karl Marx

  • Thomas Hobbes

  • David Hume

  • Rene Descartes

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Question 4 of 58

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believed we made sense of the world by our collective experiences

Select one of the following:

  • John Locke

  • Thomas Reid

  • David Hume

  • Jeremy Bentham

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Question 5 of 58

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Noumena - thing in itself

Select one of the following:

  • Rene Descartes

  • David Hume

  • Immanuel Kant

  • George Berkeley

Explanation

Question 6 of 58

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"Wealth of Nations"

Select one of the following:

  • Adam Smith

  • Immanuel Kant

  • John Locke

  • Thomas Hobbes

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Question 7 of 58

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"to be is to be perceived"

Select one of the following:

  • Adam Smith

  • George Berkeley

  • John Locke

  • David Hume

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Question 8 of 58

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believed there was a common sense (sensus communis) among humans.

Select one of the following:

  • George Berkeley

  • Thomas Reid

  • John Stuart Mill

  • Rene Descartes

Explanation

Question 9 of 58

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pleasure highest good

Select one of the following:

  • Jeremy Bentham

  • Rene Discartes

  • David Hume

  • Karl Marx

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Question 10 of 58

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Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

Post modern thinking consists of:




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Question 11 of 58

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some actions were praise worthy, others should be shunned

Select one of the following:

  • David Hume

  • Thomas Reid

  • Adam Smith

  • Jeremy Bentham

Explanation

Question 12 of 58

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Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

The dialectic terms are:


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Question 13 of 58

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History is about a struggle of change, that through reason will bring progress and a utopia at the end.

Select one of the following:

  • Immanuel Kant

  • George Freidrich Hegel

  • David Hume

  • Thomas Hobbes

Explanation

Question 14 of 58

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Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

Why people like Negative Rights



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Question 15 of 58

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Kant says we experience the world in time and space

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 16 of 58

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we tell ourselves narratives to explain the world

Select one of the following:

  • Ludwig Wittgenstein

  • Jean-Francois Lyotard

  • Ferdinand de Saussure

  • Thomas Kuhn

Explanation

Question 17 of 58

1

existentialist, believed no god, no hope, nothing but despair

Select one of the following:

  • Jean Paul Sartre

  • Thomas Kuhn

  • C.S. Pierce

  • Ferdinand de Saussure

Explanation

Question 18 of 58

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coined the word paradigm to describe the framework of knowledge or world-view one has

Select one of the following:

  • Jean-Paul Sartre

  • Thomas Kuhn

  • George Frederich Hegel

  • Ludwig Wittgenstein

Explanation

Question 19 of 58

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Ludwig Wittgenstein thought of language games

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 20 of 58

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forms of life

Select one of the following:

  • George Freiderich Hegel

  • Thomas Kuhn

  • Ludwig Wittgenstein

  • C.S. Pierce

Explanation

Question 21 of 58

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Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

Four common views of history are:



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Question 22 of 58

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Thomas Reid believed history moved through struggle of opposing ideas.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 23 of 58

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From where do rights originate?



Drag and drop to complete the text.

    natural law
    evolution
    kings
    king rights
    constitution
    natural rights
    dialectic
    community/society
    local governments
    ideas
    reason
    tabula rosa

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Question 24 of 58

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3 critiques of Kant

Select one or more of the following:

  • Critique of Aristotelian reason

  • Critique of pure reason

  • Critique of a priori

  • Critique of practical reason

  • Critique of logical reason

  • Critique of judgement

Explanation

Question 25 of 58

1

Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

4 main categories of the mind



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Question 26 of 58

1

Cogito Ergo Sum came from Descartes

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 27 of 58

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Kant believed that an Absolute Spirit pushed history towards an end of history where society becomes a perfect utopia

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 28 of 58

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practical experience was the best teacher of students.

Select one of the following:

  • C.S. Pierce

  • John Dewey

  • William James

  • Karl Marx

Explanation

Question 29 of 58

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Critical theory believed that these social activities were political:

Select one or more of the following:

  • church meetings

  • art

  • science

  • government

  • foreign affairs

  • language

Explanation

Question 30 of 58

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materialist, economist and historian

Select one of the following:

  • George F Hegel

  • Karl Marx

  • Adam Smith

  • John Locke

Explanation

Question 31 of 58

1

Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

What are some evils of capitalism as stated by Marx?


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Question 32 of 58

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from each, according to his ability, to each, according to his need

Select one of the following:

  • C.S. Pierce

  • John Locke

  • Karl Marx

  • Charles Darwin

Explanation

Question 33 of 58

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Being and Nothingness

Select one of the following:

  • Jean-Paul Sartre

  • Thomas Kuhn

  • Jean-Francois Lyotard

  • Freidrich Nietzche

Explanation

Question 34 of 58

1

Nietzche said that "God is dead"

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 35 of 58

1

Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

What are the 4 truth tests?



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Question 36 of 58

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Jean Paul Sartre wrote a play called "No Exit" where people sat in a waiting room and soon realized they were in hell with people getting on their nerves

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 37 of 58

1

Kant believe that knowledge CANNOT be A Priori but ability to understand could be.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 38 of 58

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Thomas Hobbes said that humans develop in a way that makes us able to survive in the world.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 39 of 58

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John Stuart Mill was a utilitarianist who cautioned against inductive fallacies or ambiguity.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 40 of 58

1

Utilitarian morality believes in:

Select one or more of the following:

  • ideas are highest good

  • pleasure is highest good

  • socialism provides most democratic means for wealth

  • capitalism provides most democratic means for wealth

  • greatest good for the greatest number of people

  • government should regulate markets

  • Laissez Faire

Explanation

Question 41 of 58

1

George Hegel came up with idea of Dialectical or Absolute Idealism

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 42 of 58

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David Hume had 2 types of ideas for knowledge: relation of idea and matters of fact. Called Hume's Fork

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 43 of 58

1

subject --> object

Select one of the following:

  • John Locke

  • Reme Descartes

  • David Hume

  • Immanuel Kant

Explanation

Question 44 of 58

1

first american pragmatist

Select one of the following:

  • david hume

  • Charles Darwin

  • C.S. Pierce

  • Thomas Kuhn

Explanation

Question 45 of 58

1

Wrote Leviathan

Select one of the following:

  • Thomas Hobbes

  • Immanuel Kant

  • Rene Descartes

  • David Hume

Explanation

Question 46 of 58

1

"existence precedes essence"

Select one of the following:

  • Karl Marx

  • Jean Paul Sarte

  • Thomas Reid

  • Sigmund Freud

Explanation

Question 47 of 58

1

Solipcism is the view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 48 of 58

1

subject / object split

Select one of the following:

  • Thomas Reid

  • John Locke

  • David Hume

  • Thomas Hobbes

Explanation

Question 49 of 58

1

outspoken advocate for women's rights

Select one of the following:

  • John Locke

  • John Stuart Mill

  • David Hume

  • Karl Marx

Explanation

Question 50 of 58

1

Scottish empiricist

Select one of the following:

  • Adam Smith

  • John Locke

  • Thomas Reid

  • Karl Marx

Explanation

Question 51 of 58

1

sensation and reflection

Select one of the following:

  • David Hume

  • John Locke

  • Immanuel Kant

  • George Berkeley

Explanation

Question 52 of 58

1

skepticism

Select one of the following:

  • John Locke

  • David Hume

  • George Berkeley

  • Immanuel Kant

Explanation

Question 53 of 58

1

Categorical Imperative

Select one of the following:

  • David Hume

  • John Locke

  • Immanuel Kant

  • George Berkeley

Explanation

Question 54 of 58

1

knowledge = idea + reason + empirical demonstration

Select one of the following:

  • Rene Descartes

  • Immanuel Kant

  • David Hume

  • George Berkeley

Explanation

Question 55 of 58

1

Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

Four R's



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Question 56 of 58

1

Absolute Spirit is the Great Idea, the driving, rational force behind history.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 57 of 58

1

ethics of care

Select one of the following:

  • Karl Marx

  • Carol Gilligan

  • John Locke

  • Thomas Reid

Explanation

Question 58 of 58

1

excluded Middle

Select one of the following:

  • Thomas Hobbes

  • Rene Descartes

  • Gottfriend Liebniz

  • David Hume

Explanation

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