STRAIGHTERLINE PHIL 101 INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY GRADED EXAM 4 - APRIL 2022

Page path • PHIL101_MH_V6 • Topic 14: Eastern Influences Started on Monday, April 4, 2022, 6:38 PM State Finished Completed on Monday, April 4, 2022, 6:47 PM Time taken 9 mins 18 secs Grade 175.00 out of 175.00 (100%) Question 1 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text Who among the following is NOT a proponent of "intelligent design"? Select one: a. Michael Behe b. Phillip Johnson c. Richard Dawkins d. William Dembski Question 2 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text What kind of an argument did Kant use to justify the rationality of belief in God? Select one: a. ontological b. cosmological c. teleological d. moral Question 3 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text Which of the following is true of Immanuel Kant's refutation of the ontological proof of God? Select one: a. He stated that belief in God is not rationally justified. b. He believed that existence is a perfection. c. He argued that causality is a concept that is not applicable to things-as-experienced. d. He argued that existence is a precondition of having characteristics, and not a characteristic in itself. Question 4 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text According to Leibniz, what is the sufficient reason for the changing of the seasons? Select one: a. the earth's direction of rotation b. the angle at which the earth's axis is tilted relative to the sun c. monads d. God Question 5 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text Who among the following is a representative of the "First Wave" of feminist philosophy? Select one: a. Simone de Beauvoir b. Julia Kristeva c. Harriet Taylor d. Nel Noddings Question 6 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text According to Mary Wollstonecraft, which of the following virtues should be cultivated in women as well as men? Select one: a. docility b. dependence c. wisdom d. sensitivity Question 7 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text According to Nancy Chodorow, why do boys often become isolated, separate, and misogynous? Select one: a. Boys are naturally this way because of the presence of greater amounts of testosterone. b. They are often teased and rejected by girls at a young age. c. Society requires that boys make efforts to establish themselves as "not-mother." d. Mass media, advertising, and entertainment combine to produce this result. Question 8 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text Which of the following is true according to Julia Kristeva? Select one: a. The female semiotic has been devalued. b. Feminine signification has been marginalized because it threatens the traditionally masculinist symbolic discourse. c. Religious discourse can mediate a healing space between the symbolic and the semiotic. d. All of these answers are correct. Question 9 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text Helene Cixous recognizes that social structures are inherent in language, so she writes at the limits of language in a style called _____ to mitigate the damage done by "masculinist" structures in philosophical writing. Select one: a. binary opposition b. ecriture feminine c. logocentrism d. geisteswissenschaften Question 10 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text Who among the following coined the approach "maternal thinking"? Select one: a. Nel Noddings b. Carol Gilligan c. Nancy Chodorow d. Sara Ruddick Question 11 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text Which of the following is true of third-wave feminism? Select one: a. It accepts binary distinctions between men and women. b. It accepts "sex positive" ideologies. c. It rejects transsexual identities. d. It represents the uniformity of all strands of theory. Question 12 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text Identify a reason why feminist epistemologists are suspicious of the concept of the "ideal knower" as dispassionate, objective, and purely rational. Select one: a. These qualities are of no value in the pursuit of knowledge and truth. b. Too many real people are like that, and they don't know much. c. Even supposedly objective scientists are influenced by their own prejudices and biases. d. They aren't suspicious of this concept at all. Question 13 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text The whole focus of _____ work is to demonstrate that language doesn't exist outside the body. Select one: a. Sara Ruddick's b. Hélène Cixous's c. Nancy Chodorow's d. Carol Gilligan's Question 14 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text What is NOT true of Hinduism? Select one: a. It has no known founder. b. It has no single religious body to interpret orthodoxy. c. It has no scriptures or holy writings. d. It has no unified set of doctrines. Question 15 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text According to Siddhartha Gautama, what is an immediate cause of human suffering? Select one: a. the uncertainty of the world b. ignorance c. bad karma d. sinful human nature Question 16 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text To acquire Dogen's perspective of the universal Self, one must make continuous effort to do all things: Select one: a. with a parental mind. b. contradictory to Chuang Tzu. c. to seek profit and praise. d. to become closer to the Mikado. Question 17 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text According to Confucius, which of the following principles governs both the well-ordered family and the well-ordered state? Select one: a. the principle of yin/yang b. the principle of the Mean c. the principle of the equality of opposites d. the principle of the parental mind Question 18 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text What do samurai warriors believe in? Select one: a. winning beforehand b. being a complete man, both scholar and warrior c. being self-reliant and prepared for anything d. All of these answers are correct. Question 19 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text According to Hui Neng, which of the following is true about the ultimate reality or truth? Select one: a. It remains hidden to many because of their focus on false attachments and selfish interests. b. It is divided into good and evil. c. It is a state that both comes and goes, increases and decreases, and both lives and dies. d. In principle, it is not accessible to anyone. Question 20 Correct 8.75 points out of 8.75 Flag question Question text In the context of the philosophy of Mencius, which of the following is considered true happiness? Select one: a. ruling an empire for the sake of power b. being a Mikado c. seeing parents and family alive and free from anxiety d. being detached from one's intuition and conscience