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Thursday, October 26, 2017

Exam 2 Study Guide- Section 6

These aren't in order, but I think I got them all. Comment and let me know if i missed something or have too much. This website can be quite difficult to navigate.

Beatles Quiz:
1) In what album did The Beatles reference drug-use the most? 2) How did The Beatles leading men, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, meet? 3) How do The Beatles connect with hip-hip? 4) When and Where did Hip-Hop originate from? 5) When did Hip-Hop become the most popular music genre and how did it pertain to the status of our social standings? 6) What is alternative Hip-Hop and why has it become mainstream?   Aristotle Quiz:
1.) What did Aristotle believe happiness depended on? 2.) What idea did Aristotle introduce with his thinking of happiness? 3.) What did Aristotle say happiness was? 4.) What did Aristotle call metaphysics? 5.) One difference between Plato's and Aristotle's idea of metaphysics 6.) What does catharsis mean? 7.) What was the specific cause of Aristotle's death and where?
 Epicurus Quiz:
1. According to Epicurus, fear of death is based on what, and the best way to live is what? 
2. How is the modern meaning of "epicurean" different from Epicurus's? 
3. What famous 20th century philosopher echoed Epicurus's attitude towards death? 
4. What was the Stoics' basic idea, and what was their aim? 
5. Why did Cicero think we shouldn't worry about dying? 
6. Why didn't Seneca consider life too short? 
1. What was the main teaching of skepticism? ("Scepticism" in Br. spelling) 
2. How did Pyrrho say you could become free from all worry? Does Warburton think this would work for most of us? 
3. How does modern skepticism differ from its ancient predecessor? 
4. Why does Gottlieb think Pyrrho must not have been as radically skeptical as legend has it? 
5. What did David Hume say about too much skepticism? 
6. What did "throwing in the sponge" mean, in Sextus Emiricus's story?
1. In the Hellenistic period Western philosophy came to be seen as what? What did the Hellenistic philosophies all praise, and what did they all see as the key to wisdom? 
2. Of what later philosophy was Epicureanism the main ancestor? 
3. What central problem of philosophy was Epicurus apparently the first to state? 
4. From what did the Stoics take their name? 
5. What was the one thing the Stoics thought the Epicureans were right about? 
6. How does Gottlieb say the Stoics were inconsistent?

1. What did the Philosopher Martin Heidegger once call people? 
2. What two ideas about aging have dominated philosophical thinking? 
3. What is one country that is more youth eccentric? 
4. Name a philosopher who agrees with the negative aspects of aging. 
5. Name one country or society that praises old age. 
6. Name a philosopher who is positive towards aging or the elderly. 
7. Which philosopher favored middle aging? 

DR 358-390, LH 6-8  1. What happened in AD 529, and why is it a convenient milestone for philosophy? 
2. What did medieval Christians "know" that Aristotle said wasn't so? 
3. What's the one question almost everyone has heard about medieval philosophy? What's the obvious answer? 
4. What was "the strangest document in the history of philosophy" and how did it catch the spirit of its time? 
5. What was Plotinus's philosophy called, and what was its goal? 
6. What did Proclus see as the job of philosophy?  LH  7. How did Augustine "solve" the problem of evil in his younger days, and then after his conversion to Christianity? Why wasn't it such a problem for him originally? 
8. What does Boethius not mention about himself in The Consolation of Philosophy? 
9. What uniquely self-validating idea did Anselm say we have? 
10. What was Aquinas' 2d Way?

OCT 19 - Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, DR 14 (390-425)  1. What religion did Augustine espouse before his conversion to Christianity, and how did it account for evil? 
2. To what did Augustine return, that most of the first philosophers had rejected? 
3. What form does Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy take, what does it never explicitly mention, and how does it account for the compatibility of real choice with the existence of an omniscient deity? 
4. How did Anselm define God, and what is his famous "proof" called? 
5. Who was Heloise's boyfriend, what was his greatest misfortune, and how did he go beyond established traditions? 
6. Who wrote Guide for the Perplexed? What did he try to do in it? 
7. Who had a "razor," and what was it for? 
8. Who declared that there are other worlds, and was burned at the stake? 
Pythagoras Quiz:
  1. What did Pythagoras say the three classes of people are?  
  1. What term that we use today was coined by Pythagoras? 
  1. How can you explain Pythagoras' "Perfect Triangle?" 
  1. Using his theorem, What is the lentgh of a right-angled triangle if the two shortest sides are 6cm and 8cm 
  1. Some may refer to Pythagoras as "Pythagoras of ____ " 
  1. Pythagoras is credited for many mathematic and geometric advances, most famously, what?
 Rick and Morty Quiz:
  1. What relationship is Rick to Morty? 
  1. What idea, described by American philosopher Eugene Thacker, does the show embody? 
  1. Name one way the show embodies existentialism. 
  1. Name two philosophers who are considered nihilists or absurdists. 
  1. What is the difference between active nihilism and passive nihilism? 
  1. What parable did Nietsche use to explain science's devaluation of Christianity? 
  1. What did Camus dislike in Sartre and Dostoyevsky's stories? 
  1. Was Dostoyevsky an absurdist? 
  1. What is existentialism? 


Confucius Quiz:
1. Did Confucius die believing he left a major impact? 2. What was his "other" name? 3. What religion surrounds him? 4. What were the "Six Arts" he believed were most important in education? 5. What countries has Confucius made an impact on their society? 6. What other things besides the society did he make an impact on? 

2 comments:

  1. Thanks, Elizabeth. Take your bases!

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    DQ
    1. Could you think of any other reasons as to why many believe our sexual behavior defines us as human beings?
    2. Is there a sense of lack of choice when it comes to our sexualities?
    3. What do you persuades people to think, act, and speak a certain way evolving around their sexual orientation?
    4. Is lust a deviant form of love?
    5. Can you give examples of love that convincingly pushes one to think and believe a certain way?
    6. How do you define your sexual behavior and why?
    7. Can you thoroughly explain the concept of your sexual behavior? Do you fully understand its’ perspective?

    Video: human sexuality is simply complicated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXAoG8vAyzI
    QUIZ
    Topic: Can sexual desires be the key to interpreting human behavior?

    1. Can sexual desires be the key to interpreting human behavior?

    2. Can sexual desire be the key to interpreting relationships?

    3. Where does sexual desires or sexual needs originate from?

    4. How does our sexual desires result into different behaviors?

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