Deck 18: Philosophy As a Way of Life

Question 1

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

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Sartre believed that one could be an authentic self.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Sartre wrote Final Exit .

Answer 3

False

Question 4

A philosophical advocate only opposes real injustices.

Question 5

Sartre rejected the distinction between philosophical concerns and everyday life.

Question 6

Sartre believed that we have no fixed selves.

Question 7

Sartre never met Albert Camus.

Question 8

Will Durant denied that our culture is superficial.

Question 9

Philosophical advocates are always professionally trained philosophers.

Question 10

Camus, like Sartre, was an existentialist.

Question 11

John Stuart Mill was a philosophical advocate.

Question 12

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

Question 13

Technology has never troubled philosophers.

Question 14

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

Question 15

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

Question 16

Sartre refused the Nobel Prize.

Question 17

Sartre thought that evil was merely an abstraction.

Question 18

Sartre was a Nazi.

Question 19

Sartre believed that we live lives without God.

Question 20

Sartre was a prisoner of war.

Question 21

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 22

Sartre claimed that existentialism would horrify some people.

Question 23

Sartre claimed that man was condemned to be free.

Question 24

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

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

Question 25

In 1964 King received the Nobel Peace Prize.

Question 26

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

Question 27

Where are citizens educated, according to Nussbaum?

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

Question 28

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

Question 29

Where was Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated?

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

Question 30

Sartre claimed that his views would lead one to "pessimistic toughness."

Question 31

Which ancient view had a concept of the universal city?

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

Question 32

Who wrote The Therapy of Desire ?

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

Question 33

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 34

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

Question 35

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 36

Philosophers are all free from bias.

Question 37

Who is the "dangerous philosopher"?

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

Question 38

Singer advocates

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

Question 39

Carol Gilligan was a Harvard psychologist.

Question 40

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

Question 41

Who wrote that we should cultivate humanity?

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

Question 42

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 43

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

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

Question 44

Do you believe that human life is more "sacred" than that of 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 45

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

Question 46

Who flirted with Maoism?

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

Question 47

Hetaira is Greek for

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

Question 48

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

Question 49

What is academe's oldest discipline?

A) psychology
B) philosophy
C) literature
D) gender studies

Question 50

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

Question 51

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

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

Question 52

Approximately how many academic philosophers are there in North America?

A) 1,000
B) 5,000
C) 10,000
D) 15,000

Question 53

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

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

Question 54

Who was in the French Resistance?

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

Question 55

Who explicitly said that we should cultivate humanity?

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

Question 56

When was the first Ph.D. in philosophy awarded to a black woman?

A) 1865
B) 1895
C) 1935
D) 1965

Question 57

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 58

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

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

Question 59

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

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

Question 60

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 61

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

Question 62

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.

Question 63

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.