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True or False: Ayn Rand's philosophy is essentially about politics.
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Ethics: What does "selfishness" mean in Ayn Rand's philosophy?
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Acquiring as much wealth as you can, however you can.
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Pursuing momentary pleasures whenever the opportunity arises; avoiding pain whenever possible.
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Living according to your emotions and giving charity to others when it gives you pleasure.
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Pursuing your own life and long-term happiness by the guidance of facts, and of principles derived from facts.
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Always minimizing physical risks to your survival by staying home a lot and avoiding travel to the Middle East.
Pregunta 3
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Ethics: What does Ayn Rand's philosophy say about altruism?
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Altruism means giving your own things to other people, and it's always immoral.
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Altruism means giving your own things to other people, and it can be moral if it gives you enjoyment.
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Altruism means sacrificing something of higher value to you, for something of lower or no value to you, and it's always immoral.
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Altruism means kindness to other people, and it's always immoral.
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Altruism doesn't exist; everyone is always self-interested.
Pregunta 4
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Ethics: What did Ayn Rand say about charity?
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Charity is altruism, and it's always evil.
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An act of charity is immoral if it doesn't give you joy, but moral if it does.
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Charity can be morally extended to good people without limit, but evil people shouldn't get charity from you.
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Charity is always moral, so long as it isn't forced on other people.
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Charity is not a major virtue, nor a moral duty. It can be moral, if any recipients are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them.
Pregunta 5
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Human nature: Which of the following best describes man (humans, in their essence) in Rand's Objectivism?
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Man is a greedy, material creature, looking for momentary pleasures.
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Man is a soul locked in a corrupt body, battling the body for control until death.
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Man is like a robot whose actions are determined by genetics and social conditioning.
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Man is a potentially heroic creature of two integrated aspects that can exist in harmony: mind and body.
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Man is destined to become either a master or a slave, (dominant or subservient) according to his personality traits.
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Ethics: True or False: For Rand, all people are either 100% good or 100% evil; there are no mixed cases.
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Ethics: What is the primary virtue that Ayn Rand identifies in her essay, "The Objectivist Ethics"?
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Selfishness
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Rationality
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Courage
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Integrity
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Self-esteem
Pregunta 8
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Ethics: True or False: Ayn Rand advocated honesty as a virtue.
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Ethics: In Objectivism, rationality means...
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always being right.
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always avoiding all possible fallacies.
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going by facts to the best of one's knowledge and ability.
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using one's mind and conceptualizing to the fullest practical extent, in the service of one's values.
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believing everything Ayn Rand believed.
Pregunta 10
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Ethics: In Objectivism, being rational, rather than an emotionalist, means...
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removing emotion altogether from one's life. Always reacting to things with "cool reason."
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suppressing emotions and being less passionate about things than the average person.
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acting on the emotion of the moment, but always reasoning about it afterward.
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acting on one's thinking about available evidence and shaping one's emotions to one's conscious ideas as much as possible.
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acting on emotional responses only when they were ones shared by Ayn Rand.
Pregunta 11
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Politics: What governmental system did Ayn Rand advocate?
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Laissez-faire capitalism: an established government that only protects individual rights and consists of police, military and courts.
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Anarcho-capitalism: a society without an established government that relies on private agencies to protect rights.
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Fascism: an established government that nominally recognizes private property, but centrally controls how people use and dispose of property.
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Socialism: an established government that does not recognize private property rights to the means of production, and distributes some wealth according to need.
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Representative democracy: an established government that does whatever the representatives of the majority wish, without limitation.
Pregunta 12
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Metaphysics: Which of the following is a statement of a basic axiom of Objectivism?
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Consciousness perceives itself.
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Consciousness perceives existence.
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God does not exist.
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Existence is infinite.
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To exist is to be perceived.
Pregunta 13
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Metaphysics: According to Ayn Rand, the axioms of Objectivism imply that...
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your consciousness doesn't perceive reality as it really is.
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the universe is spatially infinite.
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things are what they are, independent of your mere wishes.
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your consciousness can't affect the physical world in any way.
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every thing that exists has a specific, non-contradictory nature.
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Epistemology: For humans, according to Objectivism...
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all knowledge starts with the senses.
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all knowledge starts with statements of the axioms.
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some knowledge starts with innate ideas, while other knowledge starts with the senses.
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some knowledge starts with social convention on how to use words, while other knowledge starts with the senses.
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all knowledge starts with social convention on how to use words.
Pregunta 15
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Epistemology: Ayn Rand defined reason as...
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the faculty that identifies and integrates the material provided by man's senses.
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the faculty that operates by deductive logic.
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the faculty in man that enables communication between men and women.
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the faculty that processes emotions into ideas--man's means of rationalization.
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the faculty that combines sensory evidence with innate ideas, to give truth.
Pregunta 16
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Politics: In Ayn Rand's view, Communism is...
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evil because it is a political implementation of mysticism, collectivism and altruism.
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evil because it seized her father's business.
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good because it is the attempt to rationally plan society.
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evil because it deposed the czar of Russia, whom she admired.
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evil because it prevents business tycoons from becoming rich.