HUM 2250 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE 2026

HUM 2250 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE 2026 The philosopher who develops the concepts of eidos is: - Answers Plato The term eidos is originally translated as: - Answers form The term eidos is the root of which two words: - Answers idea and ideal According to Plato, when we hear the word "tree": - Answers We all think of the same ideal tree. True or False: According to Plato, eidos is eternal and unchanging. - Answers True True or False: According to Plato, eidos Establishes absolute norms that we can use to discern what is natural and good. - Answers True True or False: According to Plato, the eidos is a copy, while the things we can see and touch are the true originals. - Answers False What is teleology? - Answers All of these ( * The linear development of history * The beginning, continuity, and end of a coherent essence through time * The realization of selfhood over time. ) What does autos mean? - Answers self Autos is the root for many words. For which of these words is autos NOT a root? - Answers *autobiography *authority *author True or False: According to St. Augustine, we are all destined to follow the same path in the story of our lives. - Answers True True or False: According to St. Augustine, autobiography is NOT a teleology - Answers false According to John Locke, forensic identity is based on: - Answers memory According to John Locke, forensic identity is central to many of our social institutions. To which of these does his theory NOT apply? - Answers dietary habits Many concepts have challenged the Platonic worldview in the 20th century. Which of the following concepts have NOT challenged the Platonic worldview: - Answers Truth is absolute, regardless of one's perspective. True or False: The greek philosopher Heraclitus argued that all things remain fixed and permanent. - Answers False Heraclitus claimed: - Answers All of the above. ( *Nothing is permanent *The world around us is changing *We are always changing) In this course, the concept of technology has challenged many of Plato's key assumptions. Which of the following does NOT challenge Plato's assumptions: - Answers We live in a coherent world that becomes more meaningful over time. In general, the term constructionism describes: - Answers The notion that we actively construct the world we live in. Rene Deacartes famously declares, "I , therefore I ." - Answers Think , Am Cartesian dualism is: - Answers The split between the mind and the body True or False: According to Rene Descartes, animals are incapable of thought and feeling because they lack mind. - Answers True According to the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, the key assumption that Rene Descartes makes is: - Answers That the "I" who is doing the thinking is always the same. In what way does the theory of Umwelt challenge Rene Descartes' assumptions about animals? - Answers The theory of Umwelt suggests different animals, including humans, have different perceptual apparatuses that define our understanding of the world. According to the american philosopher Daniel Dennett, the Cartesian Theater is: - Answers The strange fantasy established by Rene Descartes We have a little person sitting in our brain that does all the thinking. According to Michel Foucault, the panopticon: - Answers All of these ( * Was designed as a prison in which the prisoner did not know when they were being watched * Represents an important aspect of self-discipline , in which we learn to act as though we are being watch in our daily lives * Signals the central role of self-discipline in modern life. ) According to Michel Foucault, The original Greek Olympics were an important development in the practice of self discipline because they developed which of the following attributes: - Answers diet and medicine Michel Foucault defines discursive formation as: - Answers Modes of organizing knowledge to solve specific problems True or False: Michel Foucault thought that different discursive regimes could compete and interfere with one another. - Answers True According to Jacques Lacan, the mirror stage describes: - Answers Both of these. ( *A point in the child's development which she begins to imagine her self as a whole and and unified entity *When the child looks at herself in the mirror (or at a person) And makes the cognitive leap to the idea that she is a whole coherent body separate from the things and people around her.) According to french philosopher Henri Bergson, the more we replace experience with memory, the more: - Answers The more automatic our behavior becomes. According to the mathmatician Alexander Turing, we can tell whether or not a computer has artificial intelligence by: - Answers The way it communicates with us. The "theory of mind" allows us to: - Answers All of these ( *Assume that people around me are not robots or automata. *Assume that another persons outward signs of a motion or thought relate to an inner experience that is complex and genuine *Assume that all people have a similar interior world of thoughts and feelings ) True or False: The french philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau's book Emile made the startling claim that children are fundamentally different in their emotional and intellectual world from adults. - Answers True Developmental psychology challenges fundamental aspects of the platonic worldview because: - Answers All of these ( *It's suggest that children are different from adults *It's suggest that people change in fundamental ways throughout their lives *It's a Jess that we are not born with all the attributes that make us human) The latin word infans (the root of the word infant) means: - Answers without language In his groundbreaking work, Course on General Linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure argues that: - Answers The signfier has an arbitrary relationship to the signified. According to Plato, writing was a dangerous new technology because: - Answers Both of these ( *Our words are "orphaned" I have to rewrite them subject to different interpretations *We will stop using our memories which is more natural than outside technologies like writing) According to Julia Kristeva, intertextuality is: - Answers The use of the one text to define and support our interpretation of another By "homo narrans", John Niles means: - Answers All of these. ( *We are the characters in our own stories *As unreliable narrator's we change the content and the meaning of our stories *Our quintessential quality as human is not knowing (homo sapiens) but rather narrating fictions that we then treat as realities) According to Bourdieu, habitus is : - Answers The sum of traits that inhere between individuals and their environment. True or False: The concept of homo narrans is the same as St. Augustine's theory of autobiography - Answers false True or False: Signification is constructed through difference - Answers false True or False: Gender roles have changed over time and in different cultures - Answers true Patriarchy is the theory of gender that argues: - Answers All of these. ( *Men and women should have different roles in society because they are fundamentally different *Women are in the inferior position with regard to men because they lack male traits *Gender has a biological virus and has this been the same since beginning of time) True or False: Feminism wants to reverse the binary hierarchy making men inferior to women - Answers False Feminism uses the philosophy of the construction which argues that: - Answers Identity is constructed through binaries the artificially subordinate one set of values in favor of another