Two bonus bases still available for the first student in each section who posts a Study Guide consisting of all the copy-&-pasted quizzes, including the report quizzes through Thursday.
In the meantime, search the archive for all the quizzes. The exam will be drawn from the even-numbered questions.
Quiz 2/28
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2. Machiavelli's philosophy is described as being "rooted" in what?
4. Life outside society would be what, according to Hobbes?
6. Hobbes did not believe in the existence of what?
JW
8. Where does Belloc realize he is after the fog has cleared?
FL
10. What central New Age tenet did Jane Roberts "channel," and from whom?
12. What bestseller whose popularity announced the mainstreaming of fantastical beliefs did Andersen's mother read?
Quiz 2/26
LH
2. What does Boethius not mention about himself in The Consolation of Philosophy?
4. What uniquely self-validating idea did Anselm say we have?
6. What was Aquinas' 2nd Way?
JW
8. Morley's philosophy of people says that they are interesting mostly because of what?
FL
10. Who was the Steve Jobs of his era?
12. What fantasy did Hugh Hefner promote?
14. In the second year of Eisenhower's presidency (1954), what was inserted into the Pledge of Allegiance?
Quiz 2/21
LH 4-5
2. How is the modern meaning of "epicurean" different from Epicurus's?
4. How did Epicurus respond to the idea of divine punishment in the afterlife?
6. Why did Cicero think we shouldn't worry about dying?
8. What does the author say might be the cost of stoicism?
JW
10. What is it that "creates the world about us?"
FL 19-20
12. Newspapers and magazines are the "first foundations" of what?
13. What two "fantasies" did the suburb satisfy?
14. What two locations are described as invented paradises?
Quiz 2/19
2. How did Pyrrho feel about the senses?
4. How did Pyrrho say you could become free from all worry? Does Warburton think this would work for most of us?
6. What is the opposite of skepticism?
JW
8. What does the "tramp" with the "perplexed demeanor" do with the money (half-a-crown) given to him?
FL
10. Who was Robert Love Taylor and what did he lecture about?
12. What do southerners turn away from, according to The Mind of the South?
14. How did Christian modernists reconcile scripture with science?
16. What was the "cultural impact" for each side of the Scopes trial?
Quiz 2/14
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2. In Raphael's School of Athens, who reaches out towards the world in front of him?
4. How can we increase our chance of eudaimonia?
6. How is "truth by authority" hostile to the spirit of philosophy?
JW
8. What happens "with change of place?"
FL 15, 16
10. Who called himself a transparent eyeball?
12. What fundamental Fantasyland mindset was exploited and illustrated by the early career of P.T. Barnum?
14. What complex was founded in America over the course of nineteenth century?
Quiz 2/12
LH
2. What was wisdom, for Socrates?
4. With what Platonic theory does the parable of the cave connect?
6. According to Plato, how was the ideal society organized?
Atkinson
8. What sort of companions are needed for walking the field?
FL 13-14
10. What Enlightenment attitude resulted in the tendency to "disbelieve official explanations?"
12. What was the Freemasons' Secret, according to Ben Franklin?
14. What novel idealized the South and was considered "an antidote to the abolition mischief?"
Quiz 2/7
2. Democritus' theory involved a "strong distinction between" what?
4. What evidence did Diogenes offer for his rejection of pluralism in favor of "one single thing?"
6. The wide range of pre-Socratic thought includes what topics?
Trevelyan
8. What comes in every person's youth and is best met with a "grim" walk?
FL 11-12
10. What's the upside of homeopathy?
12. What pseudoscience based psychological traits on "topographical details of a person's skull [felt] through the scalp?"
14. What job category can be traced to the inception of America?
Quiz 2/5
ReplyDelete2. What's inaccurate or problematic about the term "Pre-Socratic"?
4. Compared to Hesiod and Homer, what was different about how the Pre-Socratics saw the world?
6. As material monists, the Milesians Presocratics believed what about the "stuff" of reality?
FL 9-10
8. How did Thomas Jefferson characterize the religiosity of the South?
10. What was the 19th century "Woodstock for American Christianity"?
12. The most interesting thing about Joseph Smith is what?
14. What disease leads to "a trembling of the limbs, somnolency, misery, and crumbling to pieces?"
Quiz 1/31
2. What's the ultimate goal of Tibetan Buddhism?
4. Pain and suffering provide what opportunity in Buddhism?
6. What caused Stephen Batchelor to leave Tibetan Buddhism?
FL 7-8
8. What "intense supernatural feeling" did George Whitefield implant in American Christianity?
10. What, according to Kant, is the motto of enlightenment?
12. What kind of questions "burden" human thought, but cannot finally be answered?
Quiz 1/29
2. Rather than see God as transcendent ("outside the world") or immanent ("inside the world"), how do indigenous philosophies understand God?
4. Although they are very diverse, indigenous communities are commonly driven by what?
6. According to Hegel, in what two places did human history/progress begin and end?
FL 5-6
8. How was freedom of thought in early America different from that of Europe in the 17th century?
10. What "evidence" was the primary basis for judgments in the Salem witch trials?
12. What's Protestantism's enduring influence?
Quiz 1/24
ReplyDelete2. Who said his mind only worked with his legs?
4. Who had a "Sand-walk"?
6. Name a city with a "Philosophers' Walk".
FL 3-4
8. By what has American civilization been shaped, according to historian Daniel Boorstin?
10. Is America's founding mythology, the first nonnative new Americans who mattered were who?
Quiz 1/22
2. The pbd gives no hint of what?
4. What poet (noted in an epigraph below) said "the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time"?
6. What was on the Pioneer plaque?
8. According to Neil deGrasse Tyson, what forms of kinship are clarified and embraced by the "cosmic perspective"?
10. What pace is quickening, in our time (said Carl Sagan)?
Quiz 1/17
2. How many bases must you earn, for each run you claim on the daily scorecard?
4. Can you earn bases from the daily quiz if you're not present?
6. What should you write in your daily personal log?
8. How many bases do you get for posting a short, relevant weekly essay of at least 250 words?
READ: William James, Pragmatism lecture 1 (excerpt below); WATCH: What's Philosophy for? School of Life (SoL)
10. What does James consider the most interesting and important thing about each of us?
12. What's the difference between "tough- and tender-minded" philosophies?
14. According to the video "What is Philosophy For?," being wise means what?
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FL 1-2
16. Who coined "truthiness"?
18. What two big ideas of Martin Luther's set the stage for "Fantasyland"?
Influence of Music Quiz
ReplyDelete2.What type of music stimulates the sympathetic nervous syststem
4.What percent of popular rock songs have lyrics involving drugs and/or alcohol?
Simpsons Quiz
2- At what university is there a class that discusses the philosophy of The Simpsons?
4- What philosophers are referenced in understanding the philosophy of The Simpsons?
Free Will and Predestination Quiz
2. Who is John Calvin?
4. What does Tao Te Ching mean?
6. What do they have in common.
Villians of Harry Potter Quiz
2.Which group of magic users did Umbridge dislike?
4.What were the two things that Umbridge wanted the most?
pt.2
2) Sirius Black said that he couldn't stand his family. What are some instances when a difference of opinions with your family members threatened to break your family? Are there cases where a difference of opinions can break a family apart?
4) What are you desperate about that you would do anything to "save" this one thing or person? Could you be so desperate to do some of the things that Bellatrix has done?
That should be all of the questions that are possible on the test! Including all the presentations I could find.
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