Questions for Exam #1

Section 14-3

1. Did Socrates have any written accounts on his personal theories?
answer: No! He never actually wrote anything down. Instead he would have conversations with people and targeted who he though were arrogant and undermine their answers.

2. "One swallow doesnt make a summer" - Aristotle

3. "De gustibus non est disputandum" - Simon Blackburn
meaning: there's no disputing about taste. (relativism)

4. James Boswell asked David Hume whether he was worried about what would happen after he died.What was his answer?
answer: he said that he was no more worried about the time after his death than he was about the time he had not existed before his birth.

5. What was the name of Jeremy Bentham's walking cane?
answer: Dapple

6. "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains" - Jean-Jacques Rousseau