PHIL AND SOPHIE PRESENT

The Philosophy review quiz show

AUTONOMY

The freedom of being able to decide for oneself by using one’s own rationality

PLATO NOT PLUTO……

______________ myth of the cave can be found in his work entitled _________________

The Republic

WHO STATED……

“Humanity came into being and exists in order to contemplate the principle of the nature of the whole. The Function of wisdom is to gain possession of this very thing….” ?

Perctione

EPISTEMOLOGY

“Literally means, “the study of knowledge”

GAIL STENSTAD

She argues that men approach knowledge assuming there is only one truth or correct theory. She calls this theoretical thinking.

What does she call female thinking?

Anarchic

DETERMINISM

The theory that states, “All things and all human beings are unfree.”

PAUL HENRI D’HOLBACH

Who wrote in the 18th century: “In whatever manner man is considered, he is connected to universal nature, and submitted to the necessary and immutable laws that she imposes on all beings….He is without his own consent…In short, the actions of man are never free;

“Everyone is selfish….” was stated by a good

friend of mine…….

Harry Browne not Charlie Brown

SOCRATES

“The unexamined life is not worth living”

METAPHYSICS

The study of the nature of reality

Metaphysics

A Hindu word meaning non-violence……

Ahimsa

JANICE MOULTON

The feminist philosopher ______________, has pointed out that most philosophers use an “adversarial method” of inquiry.

GENEVIEVE LLOYD

She stated that the equation of maleness with superiority goes back at least as far as the Pythagoreans…the denigration of the “feminine” is to feminists….the most salient aspect of the maleness of the philosophical tradition.”

PARMENIDES

The ancient Greek philosopher who held that change is an illusion. He believed the universe in reality is a frozen, unchanging object.

ZENO

HE stated, “a runner cannot move from one point to another. For to do so, he must first get to a point half-way to the half-way point…and so on for an infinite number of spaces.” He therefore stated, no object moves.

MATERIALISM

The metaphysical position that reality is ultimately composed of matter.

WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING WAS NOT A MATERIALIST?

Hobbes

Julien Offroy de La Mettrie

Berkeley

Laplace

Philosophy comes from two Greek words meaning…….

Love and wisdom

This man came up with “Logotherapy” and was a Great believer in free choice……

Victor Frankl

AUGUSTINE

HE thought of reality as a continuum with human beings somewhere in the middle.

SUBJECTIVE IDEALISM

Is the position that the world consists of my own mind and things that are dependent on it.

PHENOMENOLOGY

Is the study of what appears to consciousness……..

WHICH ONE OF THESE GUYS DOES NOT BELONG?

Husserl Heidegger Merleau-Ponty Sartre

Why?He was not a phenomenologist but an existentialist.

WHICH IS TRUE ABOUT THE LIBERTARIAN VIEW?

Human beings are not personally responsible for what they do

Freedom and causal determinism are both true

Actions by people are not causally determined by previous events and the laws of nature.

HUSSERL

When I say bracketing you should automatically think of…….

“IF NO ONE ASKS ME, I KNOW WHAT TIME IS; IF SOMEONE ASKS AND I WANT TO EXPLAIN IT, I DO NOT KNOW”

Augustine

IDEALISM

“Construes the self as part of a cosmic mind, spirit, idea, or life force.”

For the _______________ the self is pure being.

For the ________________ the self is whatever we choose to make it.

Phenomenologist

Existentialist

HE BELIEVED…….

Quarrels are caused predominantly by

A) competition

B) diffidence

C) glory

Hobbes

TOMMY HOBBES COMPARED THIS TO…

Government

BERKELEY

When I say “Esse est percipi” you should think of……

Berkeley

ESSE EST PERCIPI MEANS

“To exist is to be perceived”

ST. ANSELM

He was first to present the Ontological Argument in a formal, self-conscious manner.

PANTHEISM

Everything is God and God is everything…..

AQUINAS

HE offered five ways to prove the existence of God………

AQUINAS’ PROOFS DO NOT INCLUDE AN ARGUMENT FROM…..

Motion

Causality

Conceivability

Imperfection

Order

ANALOGY

For Aquinas, positive knowledge of God can be gained by…….

DESCARTES

HE inferred his existence from his cognitive experience……..hint…not any of these guys….

LEIBNITZ

Many of Conway’s ideas were “borrowed” by ……….

A PRIORI

Knowledge known independently of sense experience is

The British Empiricists were

Berkeley Locke Hume

I say blank slate…..you should automatically think…….

Locke

SOLIPSISM

A position that only I exist and that everything else is just a creation of my subjective consciousness.

IMPRESSION

According to Hume the pain you feel when you hit your thumb is

CUSTOM

According to _____________ is the great guide of human life….

OBJECTIVE TRUTH THEORY

Correspondence

Coherence

Pragmatic

LOCKE WAS A PROPONENT OF WHICH THEORY

Correspondence

Coherence

Pragmatic

THIS GUY IS KNOWN FOR

Utilitarianism

I SPENT MY LIFE STUDYING THE STAGES OF MORAL DEVELOPMENT……

Kohlberg

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

___________________ argued that “women who acquiesce to their morally inferior condition are blameworthy”.

BUDDHISM STATES PHILOSOPHICAL WISDOM WILL FREE US FROM…..Samsara or the never ending cycle of reincarnation

AQUINAS

According to __________ a path that requires us to remove certain ideas from our concept of God is called……

Via negativa

“I THINK THEREFORE I AM”……

Rene Descartes

DESCARTES (UNE AUTRE FOIS)

From the fact that he could conceive of the nonexistence ot his body without thereby conceiving of the nonexistence of his mind, _________________ concluded mind and body are distinct entities…..

WILLIAM PALEY

______________________ example of finding a watch in the heath is used to illustrate the __________________ argument.

The Design Argument

____________ IS THE BELIEF THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD

Monotheism

COSMOLOGICAL

The _________________ argument argues that since an infinite causal chain is impossible, God must be an uncaused cause.

PRIMARY

According to __________________, a computer has certain qualities whether we perceive it or not, that he called………

WARRANTED, TRUE BELIEF

Gettier examples show knowledge is something more than

THE GREATEST BEING IMAGINABLE

By God, Anselm meant…..

HERACLITUS

Ancient Greek philosopher who proposed that change is the fundamental reality…..

THALES

Greek philosopher who believed everything is composed of water…….

THALES…..AGAIN…..THUS THE SWIMMING REFERENCE….GET IT?HE is usually considered the first Western philosopher……..

PLATO

_____________________ was Socrates disciple……

NIETZSCHE

“God is Dead”………..

CONWAY

According to __________, since God is purely spiritual, all things created by God have spirit……..

COHERENCE THEORY OF TRUTH

Blanshard was a proponent of the ___________________

IMAGINATION, MEMORY

For Hobbes, decaying sense can be either _____________________ or ___________________

VOLTAIRE

He wrote Candide……..

WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS A CONSEQUENTIALIST THEORY?a) Egoism

b) Ethical absolutism

c) The categorical imperative theory

d) The prima facie theory

e) The divine command theory

ETHICS AND ANTHROPOLOGY

The difference between _______________ and _________________ is that the one tries to discover what people should do, while the other is descriptive experimental.

HEDONISM

According to ____________________, pleasure is the only intrinsic value.

According to Kant, nothing is good without qualification except……

A good will

EMPIRICISMIs the belief that all knowledge about the world comes from or

is based on the senses

ACCORDING TO LOCKE, WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING ARE NOT PRIMARY QUALITIES?a) Size

b) Shape

c) Colour

d) Texture

e) Weight

f) smell

A DIVINE MIND (GOD)

To explain the regularity in experience, Berkeley posits……..

THE GREAT SKEPTIC……How do you know you

are really here? How do you know my accent is fake? What do mean I

look like Elmer Fudd?....

Hume

ACCORDING TO HUME THE MIND CONTAINS TWO THINGS…..

1.Ideas2.Impressions

WHAT DO THESE TWO GUYS HAVE IN COMMON WHEN DEALING WITH THE TRUTH?

William JamesRichard Rorty

Both proponents of the Pragmatic Theory

COHERENCE

According to the __________________ theory, truth is a property of a related group of constituent statements.

BRAND BLANSHARD

According to ______________________ organic bodies have a higher degree of coherence than a junk heap and a stone pile.

The self is a bundle of perceptions.

A POSTERIORI

According to Kant, ___________________ statements are neither necessary nor universal.

YES, THAT IS RIGHT….HIM AGAIN OR SHOULD I SAY HUME AGAIN

Kant credited _______________________ with having awakened him from his dogmatic slumbers.

SYNTHETICAccording to Kant, _____________________ statements are ones that

give us genuine information about the world around us.

ANALYTICAccording to Kant, ______________________ statements are ones

that can be established by sense experience.

MORALITY

For Kant, _______________ forces us to assume the existence of God.

HEDONISMEpicurus is known for his……….

MANNY KANT

Is known for his categorical imperative

ARISTOTLE

According to ___________________virtue is the ability to be reasonable in our actions, emotions and desires.

VIRTUE

According to some female philosophers, female morality is __________________ based and male morality is _______________ based

rule

I used a _______________ to say God is Dead.

Madman

God izt Dead!!!

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SAID WOMEN ARE TAUGHT TO DESIRE ______________ RATHER THAN RESPECT.

Love

UTILITARIANISM

What kind of “Ethical” theory does an atheist typically develop?

SOCRATES

Who is often called the “father of philosophy”……..

PANTHEISM AND THEISM

Panentheism tries to merge

OOPS, SORRY…..JUST SNUCK IN…..

CONWAY

_____________________ holds that after death God’s justice requires transmigration of spirits.

MASTER MORALITY

According to Nietzsche, a _____________________ will value strength, intelligence, courage, revenge and power.

Who stole this idea for his “power play”?

WHO SAID….?

Moral development for a woman is marked by progress toward more adequate ways of caring for herself and others.

No, but close…..sort of….. Carol Gilligan

AQUINAS

Who came up with the theory of Double Effect?

Do you like my hat……bought it at the Gap.

PHENOMENOLOGY OF PERCEPTION WAS WRITTEN BY….a) Merleau-Ponty

b) Kierkegaard

c) Sartre

d) De Beauvoir

JOHN RAWLS

He wrote “A Theory of Justice” where he presents a “brilliant argument in suppot of contemporary liberalism”

Born in Ninewells, he wrote “A Treatise of Human Nature”

Um, no, not who I had in mind

Hume

The idea that ideas existed in an objective state (known as Objective Idealism) is originally associated with……

No, but close….sort of…..

Plato

MUSLIMS TRADITIONALLY BELIEVE IN KISMETKismet means fate. In Philosophy terms

that would be called ………..

Determinism

TIME………

____________________ stated that it makes sense to think of time as a fixed series of moments.

McTaggert

French Philosopher, Henri Bergson argued that time is ________________, that it is forever moving from past to present to future…..

Subject ive

THE FATHER OF COMMUNISM….

nope

nope Nope but you have the right family name….

THIS PICTURE SORT OF FITS WITH…

a)Berkeley

b)Hobbes

c)Sartre

d)Frankl

HE WROTE SUMMA THEOLOGICA AND SUMMA CONTRA GENTILES…….

Aquinas

I think we should tell him to put his hat back on…..

WHAT HAS THIS GOT TO DO WITH GOD?

Design argument and William Paley

THIS IS ERNEST NAGEL….HE IS….

An Atheist

ANTIREALISM

The doctrine that the objects of our senses do not exist independently of our perceptions, beliefs, concepts and language

AYER IS THE BIG NAME WHEN SPEAKING OF a. Antirealism

b. Pragmatism

c. Logical Positivism

WHOSE THOUGHTS ON EUTHANASIA ARE THESE?1. it is against Nature

2. It is against Self Interest

mistaken diagnosis

chance of cure

pessimism- self defeating

3. Practical Effects

a. Dr's and RN's are committed to saving lives. They would be corrupted to think that there are occasions when the person (Patient) is better off dead.

b. Slippery Slope!!-

from Self Administered to Other Administered

from Voluntary to non-voluntary

from for the benefit of the person to the benefit of others, society, humankind

J. Gay-Williams

HOBBES

Who said people are all in a war against all?

I want to make this perfectly clear, I have

nothing to do with Quaker Oats…..

WHO SAID…..

“Each of us places in common his person and all his power under the

supreme direction of the general will; and as one body we all receive each member as an indivisible part of the

whole.”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau