Final Exam

Philosophy Final Exam Name:


Part 1: Matching
Match the following names with the sentence that describes them.

Copernicus, Socrates, Plato, Leonardo Da Vinci, Johan Gutenberg, Robespierre, Soren Kierkegaard , George Berkley, Olympia De Gouges, Rene Descartes, Aristotle, Francis Bacon


_________________ demanded equal rights for women.Olympia De Gouges


_________________ believed that the earth orbited the sun. His view ran contrary to the teachings of the church.Copernicus


_________________ invented movable type, thereby ending the church's monopoly on information.Johan Gutenberg


_________________ was an Irish bishop who believed that the soul was more important than the physical body.George Berkley


_________________ was accused of corrupting youth. He tried to make people think for themselves.Socrates


_________________ a Frenchman who involved himself in many scientific fields at the highest level. “I think, therefore I am.”Rene Descartes


_________________ was an early creator of highly advanced political philosophy.Plato


_________________ was supposedly the last person to contain all of human knowledge. Although it would have been impossible for this to be true, he is the only person about whom this claim could be made. Aristotle


Part 2. True or False

_________________ The Ionians were the second school of Greek philosophers.True


_________________ The Sophists were public teachers in ancient Greece.True


_________________ Socrates said, “The only real wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.” True



_________________ The “special sciences” were all born from the study of philosophy.True


_________________ In the movie, Sophie's World, the main character meets many famous philosophers. From their teachings, she determines that she is not real.False


_________________ Human senses can be trusted at all times.False


_________________ Karl Pearson teaches us that we cannot get any closer to the outside world than the point where our nerves connect to our brains.True



Part 3: More Matching

moral nihilism, nihilism, purpose nihilism, moral universalism, moral objectiveism, relativism

_______________There are no truths, moral or otherwise.Nihilism
_______________Moral claims are meaningless.Moral Nihilism
_______________“Even if you achieve all your goals, in the end, your life must necessarily come to nothing”Nihilism
_______________Life is without any objective or universal meaning.Purpose Nihilism
_______________Certain facts or truths are not universal and objective.Relativism
_______________Moral facts or truths are the same everywhere.Moral Universalism
_______________Moral facts are given by the universe (not humans).Moral Objectivism

Part 4: More True/False

__________ “Everything is permissible if God doesn't exist” -Kierkegaard, justifying the idea of universalism.False
__________ Sartre wrote that universalism requires people to make a “Leap of faith.”False
__________In Streetwise, Lulu was a tough girl who defended the other girls that were on the street.True
__________Rat's depression led him to commit suicide.false

__________Tiny's mother was trying to get her off of the street, but the girl would not listen.False
__________Shadow considered himself to be a playboy.True




Which of the following options would you associate with the ideas listed below? You will use some of the names more than once. Some of them might not need to be used.

Robert Nozik, Plato, The Skeptics, Descartes, Karl Pearson, Socrates



1.By declining to give assent or dissent from any proposition, __________________ thought we could achieve “ataraxia,” a state of untroubled mental calm.
The Skeptics

2._______________ “The sky, the air, the earth, colors, shapes, sounds, and all external things are merely the delusions of dreams which he has devised to ensnare my judgment.”
Descartes

3._______________ “We want to do certain things, and not just have the experience of doing them.
Robert Nozik

4._______________ “What am I? A thing that thinks”
Descartes

5._______________ “We learn that something matters to us in addition to experience by
immagining an experience machine and then realizing that we would not use it.”
Robert Nozik

6._______________ “We can't get any closer to the outside world than the point where our nerves connect to our brains.”
Karl Pearson

7._______________ “When he returns, the transformed prisoner is eager to tell of his remarkable journey and discoveries. In dismay, the other prisoners threaten to take his life if he persists in interrupting their entertainment.”
Plato

8._______________ “All that I know is that I know nothing.”
Socrates

9._______________“let him decieve me as much as he can, he will never bring it about that I am nothing as long as I think that I am something”
Descartes

10._______________ The nature of things is beyond our grasp; as a result, none of our beliefs (or experiences) are either true or false.
The Skeptics