1. What did Rorty think about relativism?
(It doesn't exist in the real world - AP 145)
2. Which philosopher claimed that "our ideas represent the world to us, that only some aspects of that world are
as they seem" in his great work An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)
------- (John Locke)
3. Rene Descrates was a _______ philosopher.
(Cartesian)
(Cartesian)
4. Francois-Marie Arouet is better known
as ______? (Voltaire)
5. Pascal made important contributions to
the study of what? (fluids)
6. Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature was
written by which modern philosopher? (Richard Rorty)
7. George Berkeley was an idealist, became
a bishop, but most famed for _____? (Answer: Metaphysics p.89 in PBB)
8. Which philosopher combined political
experience with philosophical insight and is a founder of modern conservatism?
(Edmond Bourke)
9. Who wrote "man was born free, and
everywhere he is in chains" in his book The Social Contract? (Rousseau)
10. _____ has an ameliorating effect on
social behavior. (Answer: Commerce found on page 113 in PBB)
FQ: The concept that morality is derived from rationality is part of what ethical concept? (Categorical Imperative)
ReplyDeleteDQ: Even if there are universal laws that govern morality, can there be exceptions made to these rules? If so who judges what merits an exception?
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwOCmJevigw
Brilliant explanation for Kant's ethical theory.
FQ: Gilbert Seldes helped spark the collapse of what? (highbrow/lowbrow distinctions)
ReplyDeleteDQ: Do you prefer the moral view of Kant or Bentham?
Link: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jeremy_Bentham
Quotes from Bentham
FQ: did Kant agree with the rationalists that it was possible to use pure reason to arrive at substive conclusions about the nature of reality? [yes]
ReplyDeleteDQ: Are you more a rationalist or an imperialists?
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/kant
Good luck on the exam tomorrow! Study hard! :)
ReplyDeleteFQ: Who was an intellectual celebrity, a philosopher, novelist musicologist, educationalist,polemicist, and author of arguably history's most influential autobiography- his Confessions? - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
DQ: Rosseau believes that our morals have been corrupted by the progress of social development and it's made us unhappy and estranges us from ourselves. Do you think his views are correct?
Link: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/jeanjacques_rousseau.html
Glad the question are up. Hopefully nothing gets added last minute again.
ReplyDeleteAnthony Helton 16-3
ReplyDeleteFQ:What is Durant best known for?(The Story of Civilization)
DQ: Was Durant a Historian or a Philosopher or both?
Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYIzFWi6Who