Deck 16: Freedom

Question 1

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at right.Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Isaac
2. Vonnegut
3. Kierkegaard
4. bourgeoisie
5. Freud
6. phoenix
7. Crane
8. Schopenhauer
9. communism
10. unrestricted freedom
11. de Beauvoir
12. James
13. Hegel
14. Rousseau
15. no free choice
16. Marx
17. Buber
18. Trungpa
___ love as genetic investment

Answer 1

6

Question 2

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at right.Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Isaac
2. Vonnegut
3. Kierkegaard
4. bourgeoisie
5. Freud
6. phoenix
7. Crane
8. Schopenhauer
9. communism
10. unrestricted freedom
11. de Beauvoir
12. James
13. Hegel
14. Rousseau
15. no free choice
16. Marx
17. Buber
18. Trungpa
___ leap of faith

Answer 2

3

Question 3

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at right.Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Isaac
2. Vonnegut
3. Kierkegaard
4. bourgeoisie
5. Freud
6. phoenix
7. Crane
8. Schopenhauer
9. communism
10. unrestricted freedom
11. de Beauvoir
12. James
13. Hegel
14. Rousseau
15. no free choice
16. Marx
17. Buber
18. Trungpa
___ The Myth of Freedom

Answer 3

18

Question 4

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at right.Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Isaac
2. Vonnegut
3. Kierkegaard
4. bourgeoisie
5. Freud
6. phoenix
7. Crane
8. Schopenhauer
9. communism
10. unrestricted freedom
11. de Beauvoir
12. James
13. Hegel
14. Rousseau
15. no free choice
16. Marx
17. Buber
18. Trungpa
___ libertarianism

Question 5

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at right.Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Isaac
2. Vonnegut
3. Kierkegaard
4. bourgeoisie
5. Freud
6. phoenix
7. Crane
8. Schopenhauer
9. communism
10. unrestricted freedom
11. de Beauvoir
12. James
13. Hegel
14. Rousseau
15. no free choice
16. Marx
17. Buber
18. Trungpa
___ regret and relief

Question 6

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at right.Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Isaac
2. Vonnegut
3. Kierkegaard
4. bourgeoisie
5. Freud
6. phoenix
7. Crane
8. Schopenhauer
9. communism
10. unrestricted freedom
11. de Beauvoir
12. James
13. Hegel
14. Rousseau
15. no free choice
16. Marx
17. Buber
18. Trungpa
___ determinism

Question 7

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at right.Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Isaac
2. Vonnegut
3. Kierkegaard
4. bourgeoisie
5. Freud
6. phoenix
7. Crane
8. Schopenhauer
9. communism
10. unrestricted freedom
11. de Beauvoir
12. James
13. Hegel
14. Rousseau
15. no free choice
16. Marx
17. Buber
18. Trungpa
___ the dialectic

Question 8

___ 1. Buber believed that in human contact he also found God.

Question 9

___ 2. Schopenhauer was one of the three major secular existentialist philosophers.

Question 10

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at right.Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Isaac
2. Vonnegut
3. Kierkegaard
4. bourgeoisie
5. Freud
6. phoenix
7. Crane
8. Schopenhauer
9. communism
10. unrestricted freedom
11. de Beauvoir
12. James
13. Hegel
14. Rousseau
15. no free choice
16. Marx
17. Buber
18. Trungpa
___ escaped sacrifice

Question 11

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at right.Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Isaac
2. Vonnegut
3. Kierkegaard
4. bourgeoisie
5. Freud
6. phoenix
7. Crane
8. Schopenhauer
9. communism
10. unrestricted freedom
11. de Beauvoir
12. James
13. Hegel
14. Rousseau
15. no free choice
16. Marx
17. Buber
18. Trungpa
___ thought essences were imposed on women by men

Question 12

___ 5. One conclusion that can be drawn from some determinist arguments is that only the insane are really free.

Question 13

___ 3. Libertines and Libertarians once belonged to the same political party but separated after a strong dispute at a 1912 conference in Paris.

Question 14

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at right.Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Isaac
2. Vonnegut
3. Kierkegaard
4. bourgeoisie
5. Freud
6. phoenix
7. Crane
8. Schopenhauer
9. communism
10. unrestricted freedom
11. de Beauvoir
12. James
13. Hegel
14. Rousseau
15. no free choice
16. Marx
17. Buber
18. Trungpa
___ affluent middle class

Question 15

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at right.Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Isaac
2. Vonnegut
3. Kierkegaard
4. bourgeoisie
5. Freud
6. phoenix
7. Crane
8. Schopenhauer
9. communism
10. unrestricted freedom
11. de Beauvoir
12. James
13. Hegel
14. Rousseau
15. no free choice
16. Marx
17. Buber
18. Trungpa
___ the id and the ego

Question 16

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at right.Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Isaac
2. Vonnegut
3. Kierkegaard
4. bourgeoisie
5. Freud
6. phoenix
7. Crane
8. Schopenhauer
9. communism
10. unrestricted freedom
11. de Beauvoir
12. James
13. Hegel
14. Rousseau
15. no free choice
16. Marx
17. Buber
18. Trungpa
___ the experience of God through feeling

Question 17

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at right.Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Isaac
2. Vonnegut
3. Kierkegaard
4. bourgeoisie
5. Freud
6. phoenix
7. Crane
8. Schopenhauer
9. communism
10. unrestricted freedom
11. de Beauvoir
12. James
13. Hegel
14. Rousseau
15. no free choice
16. Marx
17. Buber
18. Trungpa
___ the man with the stick

Question 18

___ 4. The underlying message of the novel Mother Night is that we are what we say we are.

Question 19

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at right.Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Isaac
2. Vonnegut
3. Kierkegaard
4. bourgeoisie
5. Freud
6. phoenix
7. Crane
8. Schopenhauer
9. communism
10. unrestricted freedom
11. de Beauvoir
12. James
13. Hegel
14. Rousseau
15. no free choice
16. Marx
17. Buber
18. Trungpa
___ classless society

Question 20

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at right.Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Isaac
2. Vonnegut
3. Kierkegaard
4. bourgeoisie
5. Freud
6. phoenix
7. Crane
8. Schopenhauer
9. communism
10. unrestricted freedom
11. de Beauvoir
12. James
13. Hegel
14. Rousseau
15. no free choice
16. Marx
17. Buber
18. Trungpa
___ money talks

Question 21

Punishment of Sisyphus:

A) repeating one particular action over and over
B) exile from wife and children
C) death by drinking hemlock
D) being tied to a post in the town square, with children spitting on him and adults beating him with sticks
E) being forced to spend the rest of his life on a ship that never finds a port

Question 22

___ 8. Trungpa defines freedom as a surrendering to reality and accepting things as they are.

Question 23

He died a decade before the French Revolution, but he is considered its architect nonetheless.

A) Rousseau
B) Marx
C) Napoleon
D) Sartre
E) de Beauvoir

Question 24

Skinner maintained that what we call dignity is really the same thing as

A) freedom.
B) economic well-being.
C) self-imposed limitation.
D) praise.
E) conditioning.

Question 25

___ 9. According to the chapter, people who exercise inner control are mentally ill.

Question 26

___ 14. The dialectic is a system of thought that involves analyzing opposing views, then combining them into a synthesis.

Question 27

According to Rousseau, one person founded civil society with his

A) sword.
B) rifle.
C) stick.
D) invention of marriage.
E) invention of a primitive bank where people could keep their possessions safe.

Question 28

Wrote an imaginary dialogue between Man and the World Spirit:

A) Buber
B) Skinner
C) James
D) Nietzsche
E) Schopenhauer

Question 29

___ 11. The idea that human behavior can be analyzed in terms of genetic investment is known as economic determinism.

Question 30

___ 15. Sartre did not findit necessaryto take responsibility for bad choices.

Question 31

Which of the following does not support the determinist argument?

A) Marxism
B) regret
C) genomes
D) DNA
E) behaviorism

Question 32

___ 6. Hobbes believed that people were basically good but needed a strong monarchy to protect them.

Question 33

___ 10. James believed that humans and machines were alike.

Question 34

Said that whatever we do is determined by a system of rewards and punishments:

A) Camus
B) Sartre
C) Buber
D) Freud
E) Skinner

Question 35

Signs of free will for James:

A) the genomes
B) the heart and the soul
C) the ego and the superego
D) regret and relief
E) dreams

Question 36

___ 13. Feminists of today hail Schopenhauer as one of history's true male feminists.

Question 37

___ 12. Philosopher William James believed that money is the root of all human motivation.

Question 38

He believed in predestination, but he would not call himself a determinist:

A) Hobbes
B) Machiavelli
C) Buber
D) Augustine
E) Schopenhauer

Question 39

The chapter ends by suggesting that freedom can best be gained through

A) organized citizens' forums.
B) removal of all government restrictions.
C) self-imposed limitations.
D) writing to legislators to let them know that their activities are being closely watched by their constituents.
E) calm acceptance of social and legal rules over which we have no control anyway.

Question 40

___ 7. Freud called the values imposed on us by family, society, and the law the dialectic.

Question 41

Freud's term for these values imposed on us by family, religion, education, and the law:

A) the ego.
B) the superego.
C) the invisible hand.
D) the id.
E) institutional determinism.

Question 42

Buber's I/Thou was, for him:

A) enough of a reason for shutting himself off from the world.
B) a way to challenge the theory of relativity.
C) a way to prove that God could not exist.
D) a way to prove that God must exist.
E) a meaningless separation of one person from another.

Question 43

If someone strikes you and your response is to draw out a sword and make him a knight, which of the following is most likely to say this was a sign of freewill?

A) a determinist
B) a religious existentialist
C) a Marxist
D) a libertarian
E) an indeterminist

Question 44

Marx and Lenin, though sharing the same economic philosophy, disagreed on one point. Lenin believed

A) a limited amount of capitalism was necessary.
B) women should not be given advanced education.
C) some class distinction was healthy for society.
D) the classless society could come about only through revolution.
E) the classless would come about non-violently.

Question 45

Said that suicide was the only serious philosophical problem:

A) Sartre
B) de Beauvoir
C) Camus
D) Buber
E) Hobbes