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Augustine
Ans: Leading figure in the medieval period
Copernicus
Ans: an initiator of scientific
Descartes
Ans: french philosopher
Diotima
Ans: influenced Socrates
Pelagius
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Ans: contemporary of Augustine
Socrates
Ans: Key figure in Plato's dialogue
If all of the philosophical questions in Chapter One share a common
thread, it is that answering them
Ans: requires you to articulate what you believe about yourself and the
world.
Some psychologists, such as B.F. Skinner, believed that there are no
such things as "minds," but that people do nothing more than
"behave," which is just moving their bodies and making sounds
according to certain stimulations from the environment.
Ans: True
Philosophy, very often, proceeds through
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Ans: disagreement
An important philosophical question is whether a good person (one
who does no evil and does everything he or she is supposed to do)
would necessarily be happy.
Ans: True
The philosopher Socrates did not willingly go to his death, because
he believed he had the right to life.
Ans: False
In Plato's Symposium, Diotima argues that
Ans: procreation is the nearest thing to immortality that a mortal can
attain.
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Descartes' approach to philosophy was to doubt everything until he
could prove it to his own satisfaction. The first premise of his
philosophy was
Ans: the indubitability of his own existence.
Descartes thinks that he is always dreaming.
Ans: False
Convention
Ans: general agreement
Determinism
Ans: The thesis that all events are caused
Determinists
Ans: Philosophers that believe that every event has a cause
PHI 2010 Questions and Correct
Answers/ Latest Update / Already
Graded
Augustine
Ans: Leading figure in the medieval period
Copernicus
Ans: an initiator of scientific
Descartes
Ans: french philosopher
Diotima
Ans: influenced Socrates
Pelagius
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Ans: contemporary of Augustine
Socrates
Ans: Key figure in Plato's dialogue
If all of the philosophical questions in Chapter One share a common
thread, it is that answering them
Ans: requires you to articulate what you believe about yourself and the
world.
Some psychologists, such as B.F. Skinner, believed that there are no
such things as "minds," but that people do nothing more than
"behave," which is just moving their bodies and making sounds
according to certain stimulations from the environment.
Ans: True
Philosophy, very often, proceeds through
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Ans: disagreement
An important philosophical question is whether a good person (one
who does no evil and does everything he or she is supposed to do)
would necessarily be happy.
Ans: True
The philosopher Socrates did not willingly go to his death, because
he believed he had the right to life.
Ans: False
In Plato's Symposium, Diotima argues that
Ans: procreation is the nearest thing to immortality that a mortal can
attain.
, 4 | Page
Descartes' approach to philosophy was to doubt everything until he
could prove it to his own satisfaction. The first premise of his
philosophy was
Ans: the indubitability of his own existence.
Descartes thinks that he is always dreaming.
Ans: False
Convention
Ans: general agreement
Determinism
Ans: The thesis that all events are caused
Determinists
Ans: Philosophers that believe that every event has a cause
