UGS 303 Bonevac Final Exam|258
Accurate Q’s and A’s
The view that government authority is justified if people would, under ideal
circumstances, agree to live under it: - -Social contract theory
-The view that 'murder is wrong' is equivalent to 'I (or we) disapprove of
murder' is - -subjectivism
-That the world might be different, even though all our perceptions and
thoughts of it might be the same, has been taken to show that - -knowledge
is impossible
-"Because when we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want
something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to
have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join
the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is
heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble. And I suspect we
are already there." - -Didion
-"...if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its
limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the
most living. It is not up to me to wonder if this is vulgar or revolting, elegant
or deplorable." - -Camus
-"And say to yourself here-and-now, here-and-now, here-and-now. 'Where
am I?'" - -Bellow
-"A distribution is just if it arises from another just distribution by legitimate
means." - -Nozick
-If we translate 'gavagai' as 'rabbit,' Quine argues, we are - -reading our
own conceptual scheme into the native speech
-"Not: I can prove something because reality is the way I say it is. But: as
long as I can produce proof, it is permissible to think that reality is the way I
say it is." - -Lyotard
-Plato's story of the ring of Gyges suggests that, if you could get away with
anything, you would probably - -act unethically
-`Kindness is a virtue' is equivalent to 'Kindness merits approval,' according
to - -natural law theory
, -"The metaphysicians ... do not seek for the truth or even for verisimilitude,
but rather for the astounding. They judge that metaphysics is a branch of
fantastic literature." - -Borges
-"...there is nothing for such a correlation to be uniquely right or wrong
about. In saying this I philosophize from the vantage point only of our own
provincial conceptual scheme and scientific epoch, true; but I know no
better." - -Quine
-"the belief that phenomena of human life are not intelligible except through
their interrelations": - -structuralism
-"...self-deception remains the most difficult deception." - -Didion
-"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they
really know about what they imagine they can design." - -Hayek
-Socialism, Hayek argues, tends to treat people as - -means to an end
-Lyotard distinguishes knowledge from learning, for it includes more, for
example, - -competences, knowing how to...
-"Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my
freedom, and my passion." - -Camus
-"He loved them. They were his brothers and his sisters. He was imperfect
and disfigured himself, but what difference did that make if he was united
with them by this blaze of love? And as he walked he began to say, "Oh my
brothers--my brothers and my sisters," blessing them all as well as himself." -
-Bellow
-"...a system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the
universe to any one such aspect." - -Borges
-In Hayek's view, "the most powerful monopolist conceivable": - -centralism,
government
-Part of Roosevelt's Second New Deal: - -the social security system
-"a set of critical, strategic and rhetorical practices employing concepts such
as difference, repetition, the trace, the simulacrum, and hyperreality to
destabilize other concepts such as presence, identity, historical progress,
epistemic certainty, and the univocity of meaning": - -postmodernism
, -Playwright Bertold Brecht's response to the Show Trials, and to the
disappearance of his own girlfriend on her return to the Soviet Union: - -"the
more innocent they are, the more they deserve to die"
-Keynesian and neoclassical economists tend to agree that, in the face of an
economic slowdown, government should - -cut taxes
-Stalin's collectivization of agriculture slaughtered ten million people; ten
million were forced to Siberia, and another ten million were sent to
concentration camps. The rest: - -lost all property, becoming, in effect,
slaves
-"This divorce between man and this life, the actor and his setting, is
properly the feeling of absurdity." - -Camus
-"To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the
expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, the
singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final
turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home." -
-Didion
-"The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments."
- -Lewis
-"Things became duplicated...; they also tend to become effaced and lose
their details when they are forgotten. A classic example is the doorway which
survived so long it was visited by a beggar and disappeared at his death. At
times some birds, a horse, have saved the ruins of an amphitheater." - -
Borges
-Arguing that language can at most establish a system of differences that
describe a structure, Derrida concludes that - -there's no principled
difference between describing reality and describing a system of signs, a
text, or language itself
-"...each person participating in a practice, or affected by it, has an equal
right to most extensive liberty compatible with a like liberty for all...." - -
Rawls
-"...we could know the necessary and sufficient stimulatory conditions of
every possible act of utterance, in a foreign language, and still not know how
to determine what objects the speakers of that language believe in." - -
Quine
-The first act of the Weimar Republic was to - -sign the Treaty of Versailles
Accurate Q’s and A’s
The view that government authority is justified if people would, under ideal
circumstances, agree to live under it: - -Social contract theory
-The view that 'murder is wrong' is equivalent to 'I (or we) disapprove of
murder' is - -subjectivism
-That the world might be different, even though all our perceptions and
thoughts of it might be the same, has been taken to show that - -knowledge
is impossible
-"Because when we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want
something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to
have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join
the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is
heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble. And I suspect we
are already there." - -Didion
-"...if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its
limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the
most living. It is not up to me to wonder if this is vulgar or revolting, elegant
or deplorable." - -Camus
-"And say to yourself here-and-now, here-and-now, here-and-now. 'Where
am I?'" - -Bellow
-"A distribution is just if it arises from another just distribution by legitimate
means." - -Nozick
-If we translate 'gavagai' as 'rabbit,' Quine argues, we are - -reading our
own conceptual scheme into the native speech
-"Not: I can prove something because reality is the way I say it is. But: as
long as I can produce proof, it is permissible to think that reality is the way I
say it is." - -Lyotard
-Plato's story of the ring of Gyges suggests that, if you could get away with
anything, you would probably - -act unethically
-`Kindness is a virtue' is equivalent to 'Kindness merits approval,' according
to - -natural law theory
, -"The metaphysicians ... do not seek for the truth or even for verisimilitude,
but rather for the astounding. They judge that metaphysics is a branch of
fantastic literature." - -Borges
-"...there is nothing for such a correlation to be uniquely right or wrong
about. In saying this I philosophize from the vantage point only of our own
provincial conceptual scheme and scientific epoch, true; but I know no
better." - -Quine
-"the belief that phenomena of human life are not intelligible except through
their interrelations": - -structuralism
-"...self-deception remains the most difficult deception." - -Didion
-"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they
really know about what they imagine they can design." - -Hayek
-Socialism, Hayek argues, tends to treat people as - -means to an end
-Lyotard distinguishes knowledge from learning, for it includes more, for
example, - -competences, knowing how to...
-"Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my
freedom, and my passion." - -Camus
-"He loved them. They were his brothers and his sisters. He was imperfect
and disfigured himself, but what difference did that make if he was united
with them by this blaze of love? And as he walked he began to say, "Oh my
brothers--my brothers and my sisters," blessing them all as well as himself." -
-Bellow
-"...a system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the
universe to any one such aspect." - -Borges
-In Hayek's view, "the most powerful monopolist conceivable": - -centralism,
government
-Part of Roosevelt's Second New Deal: - -the social security system
-"a set of critical, strategic and rhetorical practices employing concepts such
as difference, repetition, the trace, the simulacrum, and hyperreality to
destabilize other concepts such as presence, identity, historical progress,
epistemic certainty, and the univocity of meaning": - -postmodernism
, -Playwright Bertold Brecht's response to the Show Trials, and to the
disappearance of his own girlfriend on her return to the Soviet Union: - -"the
more innocent they are, the more they deserve to die"
-Keynesian and neoclassical economists tend to agree that, in the face of an
economic slowdown, government should - -cut taxes
-Stalin's collectivization of agriculture slaughtered ten million people; ten
million were forced to Siberia, and another ten million were sent to
concentration camps. The rest: - -lost all property, becoming, in effect,
slaves
-"This divorce between man and this life, the actor and his setting, is
properly the feeling of absurdity." - -Camus
-"To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the
expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, the
singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final
turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home." -
-Didion
-"The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments."
- -Lewis
-"Things became duplicated...; they also tend to become effaced and lose
their details when they are forgotten. A classic example is the doorway which
survived so long it was visited by a beggar and disappeared at his death. At
times some birds, a horse, have saved the ruins of an amphitheater." - -
Borges
-Arguing that language can at most establish a system of differences that
describe a structure, Derrida concludes that - -there's no principled
difference between describing reality and describing a system of signs, a
text, or language itself
-"...each person participating in a practice, or affected by it, has an equal
right to most extensive liberty compatible with a like liberty for all...." - -
Rawls
-"...we could know the necessary and sufficient stimulatory conditions of
every possible act of utterance, in a foreign language, and still not know how
to determine what objects the speakers of that language believe in." - -
Quine
-The first act of the Weimar Republic was to - -sign the Treaty of Versailles
