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PHIL 101 Final Exam JMU Yates Exam 2026 Actual
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What does Rousseau say about how humans are shaped
by society? - Answer-We are born potentially good but
society usually shapes us for the bad
Does Rousseau think people can be inherently evil? -
Answer-No
What comes first, natural feelings or acquired ideas? -
Answer-Natural feelings
What are ideas? - Answer-Reasoned principles; they build
on feelings and then guide actions
Who created the social contract? - Answer-Rousseau
The social contract - Answer-A voluntary agreement
among individuals to secure their rights and welfare by
creating a government and abiding by its rules.
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how philosophy involves cultivating one side of our lives
by questioning another - Answer-to cultivate the side of
our ideas, reason, etc.
intellectual strength - Answer-- agility in perception &
thinking
- sloppy, naive prejudices - motivated reasoning
- attempt to harvest better authenticity (healthy intellectual
discussion)
practicing the 'love of wisdom': technical matters - Answer-
- the role of assumptions & presuppositions (technical
term for assumption) - underlying ideas we trust
- criticism & argument
- philosophy in Greek as 'philein' & 'sophia' (friendship w/
wisdom)
- Queen of the Sciences (philosophy) - concerned w/ truth
Rousseau's personal concern - Answer-Inequality and
government (how to balance individual freedoms within
the good things in government)
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When Rousseau focuses on 'Nature as Basis for Morality',
what is he NOT talking about? - Answer-God and the
principles of human reason
When Rousseau focuses on 'Nature as Basis for Morality',
what IS he talking about? - Answer-Human nature as
selfish in a good way, a naturally good kind of self interest
Humanity's goal according to Rousseau - Answer-To be a
good person
Rousseau says that in our human nature, three things
intersect - Answer-What we think, what we do, and how
we act
four approaches to doing philosophy: definitions - Answer-
- trying to articulate clear meanings of things - wisdom,
knowledge, happiness, etc.
- definitional ambition; disagreements along the way
four approaches to doing philosophy: logic & proofs -
Answer-- take definitions & try to prove them
- logistic reasoning; symbolic logic
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- way of trying to argue in a reasoned out method
- words can have ethical or non-ethical meanings
regardless of context; asks each side to do more than
point fingers
four approaches to doing philosophy: being visionary -
Answer-- philosophy is constantly in search of new modes
of meaning
- visionary imagination; creative agility
- artistry in philosophy
four approaches to doing philosophy: focusing on the
practical (the moral) - Answer-- identifying which actions
are right or wrong, & on what basis can we claim it
- brings clarity, criticism, & questioning to something
always going on (moral judgements)
common denominators of the four approaches to doing
philosophy - Answer-- philosophy challenges us to
examine our beliefs & ourselves
- try to live a wise & more authentic life
PHIL 101 Final Exam JMU Yates Exam 2026 Actual
Complete Real Verified Exam Questions & Correct
Answers / 100% Verified Answers / Already Graded A+
|| Newest Exam!!!
What does Rousseau say about how humans are shaped
by society? - Answer-We are born potentially good but
society usually shapes us for the bad
Does Rousseau think people can be inherently evil? -
Answer-No
What comes first, natural feelings or acquired ideas? -
Answer-Natural feelings
What are ideas? - Answer-Reasoned principles; they build
on feelings and then guide actions
Who created the social contract? - Answer-Rousseau
The social contract - Answer-A voluntary agreement
among individuals to secure their rights and welfare by
creating a government and abiding by its rules.
,2|Page
how philosophy involves cultivating one side of our lives
by questioning another - Answer-to cultivate the side of
our ideas, reason, etc.
intellectual strength - Answer-- agility in perception &
thinking
- sloppy, naive prejudices - motivated reasoning
- attempt to harvest better authenticity (healthy intellectual
discussion)
practicing the 'love of wisdom': technical matters - Answer-
- the role of assumptions & presuppositions (technical
term for assumption) - underlying ideas we trust
- criticism & argument
- philosophy in Greek as 'philein' & 'sophia' (friendship w/
wisdom)
- Queen of the Sciences (philosophy) - concerned w/ truth
Rousseau's personal concern - Answer-Inequality and
government (how to balance individual freedoms within
the good things in government)
,3|Page
When Rousseau focuses on 'Nature as Basis for Morality',
what is he NOT talking about? - Answer-God and the
principles of human reason
When Rousseau focuses on 'Nature as Basis for Morality',
what IS he talking about? - Answer-Human nature as
selfish in a good way, a naturally good kind of self interest
Humanity's goal according to Rousseau - Answer-To be a
good person
Rousseau says that in our human nature, three things
intersect - Answer-What we think, what we do, and how
we act
four approaches to doing philosophy: definitions - Answer-
- trying to articulate clear meanings of things - wisdom,
knowledge, happiness, etc.
- definitional ambition; disagreements along the way
four approaches to doing philosophy: logic & proofs -
Answer-- take definitions & try to prove them
- logistic reasoning; symbolic logic
, 4|Page
- way of trying to argue in a reasoned out method
- words can have ethical or non-ethical meanings
regardless of context; asks each side to do more than
point fingers
four approaches to doing philosophy: being visionary -
Answer-- philosophy is constantly in search of new modes
of meaning
- visionary imagination; creative agility
- artistry in philosophy
four approaches to doing philosophy: focusing on the
practical (the moral) - Answer-- identifying which actions
are right or wrong, & on what basis can we claim it
- brings clarity, criticism, & questioning to something
always going on (moral judgements)
common denominators of the four approaches to doing
philosophy - Answer-- philosophy challenges us to
examine our beliefs & ourselves
- try to live a wise & more authentic life
