Deck 18: Philosophy As a Way of Life

Question 1

Sartre believed that we have no fixed selves.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Sartre believed that we live lives without God.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Epicurus said that no one should be slow to seek wisdom when young.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Camus, like Sartre, was an existentialist.

Question 5

Sartre refused the Nobel Prize.

Question 6

John Stuart Mill was a philosophical advocate.

Question 7

Philosophical advocates are always professionally trained philosophers.

Question 8

Sartre believed that one could be an authentic self.

Question 9

Sartre was a Nazi.

Question 10

A philosophical advocate only opposes real injustices.

Question 11

Public philosophers express their philosophical positions in a way accessible to a broad audience.

Question 12

Sarte wrote Final Exit .

Question 13

The assumption that rationality should be associated with masculinity is now being challenged.

Question 14

Sartre never met Albert Camus.

Question 15

Will Durant denied that our culture is superficial.

Question 16

Technology has never troubled philosophers.

Question 17

An idiot was originally one who did not participate in community affairs.

Question 18

Sartre was a prisoner of war.

Question 19

Sartre thought that evil was merely an abstraction.

Question 20

Sartre rejected the distinction between philosophical concerns and everyday life.

Question 21

Who explicitly held that philosophy healed human diseases promoted by false beliefs?

A) Nussbaum
B) King
C) Singer
D) Rawls

Question 22

Who wrote The Therapy of Desire ?

A) Nussbaum
B) Sartre
C) Camus
D) Hume

Question 23

In 1964 King received the Nobel Peace Prize.

Question 24

Sartre claimed that existentialism would horrify some people.

Question 25

Sartre claimed that man was condemned to be free.

Question 26

Sartre claimed that his view would lead one to pessimistic toughness .

Question 27

What does Singer see as the morally acceptable maximum income (in 1999 dollars)?

A) $10,000
B) $30,000
C) $50,000
D) $100,000

Question 28

Martin Luther King, Jr., gave the I have a dream speech.

Question 29

Which ancient view had a concept of the universal city?

A) Stoic
B) Platonic
C) Epicurean
D) Aristotelian

Question 30

Which ancient schools of thought saw the philosopher as a compassionate physician?

A) Epicurean and Platonic
B) Epicurean and Stoic
C) Stoic and Platonic
D) Platonic and Aristotelian

Question 31

Carol Gilligan was a Harvard psychologist.

Question 32

Where are citizens educated, according to Nussbaum?

A) On campuses
B) In churches
C) At home
D) On the streets

Question 33

Martin Luther King, Jr., was a philosophic activist.

Question 34

How much would it take donated to UNICEF to transform a sickly two-year old into a healthy six-year old?

A) $200
B) $1,000
C) $2,000
D) $5,000

Question 35

Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger.

Question 36

Singer advocates

A) Kantian deontology
B) Virtue ethics
C) Utilitarianism
D) Christianity

Question 37

Who is the dangerous philosopher ?

A) King
B) Nussbaum
C) Rawls
D) Singer

Question 38

Philosophers are all free from bias.

Question 39

Where was Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated?

A) Baton Rouge
B) New Orleans
C) Boston
D) Memphis

Question 40

Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote the unanimous opinion in Linda Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka .

Question 41

According to Hadot, the natural state of human beings should be

A) misery
B) happiness
C) wisdom
D) humility

Question 42

In what way are persons forced to be free ? Is this a good thing, or not? Do you believe that it is actually the case?

Question 43

Outline Singer s response to the problem of famine relief. Do you agree with him, or not? Explain and justify your answer.

Question 44

Who said that all you needed to fight for freedom was to be an intelligent human being?

A) Singer
B) Nussbaum
C) Malcolm X
D) Friedman

Question 45

Where does Sally Haslanger teach philosophy?

A) MIT
B) Harvard
C) Pittsburgh
D) Columbia

Question 46

Which view has as its first principle that man is nothing but what he makes of himself?

A) Stoic
B) Utilitarian
C) Epicurean
D) Existentialist

Question 47

Who flirted with Maoism?

A) Singer
B) Rawls
C) Sartre
D) Heidegger

Question 48

Do you believe that philosophers have a social responsibility to advocate for wise public policy decision? Why, or why not? Offer examples of persons who have done so in answering this question.

Question 49

Who said that discourse about philosophy was not the same thing as philosophy?

A) Nussbaum
B) Hadot
C) Sartre
D) Malcolm X

Question 50

How many full-time black women philosophy teachers were identified in America in 2007?

A) 30
B) 325
C) 456
D) 765

Question 51

What ancient influences can you detect in the philosophy of both Sartre and Nussbaum?

Question 52

What is Sartre s term for his belief that we face life alone?

A) Despair
B) Fortitude
C) Forlornness
D) Optimism

Question 53

Do you believe that human life is more sacred than that on a dog? Do you believe this in all cases even in cases where the human being is severely impaired? Explain and justify your answer.

Question 54

Who wrote that the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul?

A) Nussbaum
B) Rawls
C) Hadot
D) Bellow

Question 55

Who explicitly said that we should cultivate humanity?

A) Seneca
B) Cicero
C) Plato
D) Nussbaum

Question 56

What percentage of faculty in top 20 philosophy departments in America are women?

A) 15
B) 19
C) 35
D) 38

Question 57

Whose project is it to demoralize the genders ?

A) Nussbaum
B) Friedman
C) Preti
D) Stace

Question 58

Who wrote that the untrained mind shivers with excitement at everything it hears?

A) Plato
B) Seneca
C) Heraclitus
D) Herodotus

Question 59

Who was in the French Resistance?

A) Heidegger
B) Kant
C) Nussbaum
D) Sartre

Question 60

Hetaira is Greek for

A) Fellow
B) Professor
C) Courtesan
D) Philosopher

Question 61

Do you believe that steps should be taken to make the profession of philosophy more inclusive? If so, why? If not, why not? In either case justify your answer.

Question 62

Is ethical theory of any use in real life? Explain and justify your answer.

Question 63

Do you believe that wisdom is found only by reason? Why, or why not? In answering this question you should draw on the views of some of the philosophers discussed throughout this text.