Deck 1: Philosophy and the Search for Wisdom

Question 1

Majority rules thinking reflects a utilitarian approach to philosophy.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Relativism is an ethical issue.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Philosophy consists of careful reasoning about certain kinds of issues.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

You have to be a philosopher to ask philosophical questions.

Question 5

In parts of Africa, a wise person was known as a witch doctor.

Question 6

Philosophy is an important part of your life.

Question 7

Archetype is another word for ideal .

Question 8

Doubting Thomas was a skeptic.

Question 9

Metaphysics raises questions that go beyond the scope of ordinary science.

Question 10

Epistemology is a comic approach to philosophy.

Question 11

Logic is an area of philosophy.

Question 12

Philosophical questions can be answered in the same way as mathematical questions.

Question 13

A stereotype is a simplistic distortion of a person.

Question 14

In the ancient world, a wise person was known as a thyme .

Question 15

A utilitarian believes that pain is inherently bad.

Question 16

The word philosophy is from the Greek, meaning love of wisdom .

Question 17

Originally, an amateur was motivated by love, not by profit.

Question 18

Durant held that philosophy might give us a healing unity of soul.

Question 19

C. G. Jung wrote of archetypes .

Question 20

Philosophy only concerns the nature of God.

Question 21

Women are still underrepresented in many fields.

Question 22

Ayn Rand was a philosopher.

Question 23

Knowledge is

A) Belief
B) Wisdom
C) True belief
D) Abstract thought

Question 24

Western philosophy has been predominantly male.

Question 25

The belief that knowledge is determined by the specific qualities of the observer is called

A) Relativism
B) Positivism
C) Deontology
D) Methodology

Question 26

To secure a fundamental understanding of reality as it relates to living a good life is the chief goal of

A) Apologetics
B) Relativism
C) Wisdom
D) Truth

Question 27

Philosophers are always men.

Question 28

The best philosophers defer to all arguments.

Question 29

James Q. Wilson is a

A) Politician
B) Apologist
C) Sociologist
D) Classicist

Question 30

The history of philosophy is no longer being written.

Question 31

Spinoza said that he did not know how to teach philosophy.

Question 32

Walter Kaufman held that the history of philosophy was the history of heresy.

Question 33

Volmar was an early woman philosopher who had visions.

Question 34

Who wrote that philosophy was a medical art for the soul ?

A) Cicero
B) Aquinas
C) Kant
D) Wilson

Question 35

Poseidon was the god of

A) the air
B) thought
C) the land
D) the sea

Question 36

False knowledge is

A) Common
B) Impossible
C) Uncommon
D) Dangerous

Question 37

For the Greeks of Homer s era, everything happened

A) by chance
B) by human action
C) by divine agency
D) by Greek action

Question 38

Belief is

A) The trust that a claim is true
B) The way to enlightenment
C) The way to God
D) Merely relative

Question 39

Philosophy is perhaps the most open of subjects.

Question 40

Willed ignorance

A) is a closed-minded attitude
B) is typical of atheists
C) is typical of religious people
D) is an open-minded attitude

Question 41

Ad hominem is Latin for

A) at the man
B) fallacy of anachronism
C) this first, therefore that
D) commercial similarity

Question 42

What is an archetype of wisdom ? What distinguishes them from other people? Are such people always admirable? Why, or why not?

Question 43

What was the main difference between Presocratic Western philosophy and Greek mythology? Were they addressing the same basic human need? Which approach do you think would be most successful? Can you see any parallel conflict in public discourse today? If so, what is it? If not, why do you think that is?

Question 44

What was Greek mythology a product of?

A) A search for explanations
B) The need for social control
C) Mass hysteria
D) Personal experience of the divine

Question 45

Who wrote that beggars get handouts before philosophers?

A) Cicero
B) Plato
C) Aristotle
D) Diogenes

Question 46

What is relativism ? In what way might it be said to be self-defeating? Is there a version of relativism that could meet this criticism? If not, explain why not. If so, outline what it is and how this criticism could be met.

Question 47

Bertrand Russell held that philosophy

A) was to be avoided at all costs
B) would lead to divine revelation
C) was to be studied for the sake of its answers
D) was to be studies for the sake of its questions

Question 48

Diogenes said that one could accept reason, or

A) a halter
B) ignorance
C) truth
D) God

Question 49

Buddha held that all humanity was

A) enlightened
B) illusory
C) healthy
D) sick

Question 50

Two virtues of archetypal figures are

A) The intensity and pluralism of their beliefs
B) The intensity and purity of their beliefs
C) The rationality and purity of their beliefs
D) The intensity and rationality of their beliefs

Question 51

The history of philosophy has been dominated by

A) African males
B) European males
C) European women
D) Asian males

Question 52

What is knowledge ? Why is it useful? Is it ever possible to have knowledge? Is it ever possible to know that you have knowledge? Why, or why not?

Question 53

In parts of Asia, a wise person was known as a

A) shaman
B) guru
C) tantra
D) sage

Question 54

Which god was said to support the world on his shoulders?

A) Rand
B) Zeus
C) Apollo
D) Atlas

Question 55

Two of the primary goals of philosophy are

A) opacity of expression and clarity of thought
B) opacity of thought and clarity of expression
C) clarity of expression and thought
D) opacity of expression and thought

Question 56

Do you believe that philosophy can be taught? Explain your answer.

Question 57

The two types of knowledge are

A) true and false
B) practical and theoretical
C) positive and negative
D) relative and universal

Question 58

Epistemology asks questions about

A) Writing
B) Reality
C) Love
D) Knowledge

Question 59

A conviction that something is true where the only evidence for this is the conviction itself is

A) a true belief
B) a mere belief
C) a justified belief
D) an evidential belief

Question 60

Philosophers agree that knowledge is

A) impossible
B) cultural
C) male
D) true belief

Question 61

What is Bertrand Russell s view of philosophy? Do you agree with him? Explain your answer.

Question 62

Can we draw any lessons from the past? If so, how?

Question 63

What are the primary areas of philosophy? What identifies them all as being philosophy ? Are they all distinct from each other, or are there interconnections between them? Explain your answer.