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• PHIL101_MH_V6
• Topic 12: Evil and the Existence of God
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According to Plato, Form goodness is apprehended by:
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a. the senses.
b. reason.
c. emotions.
d. mystical vision.
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According to Plato, when the intellect itself is governed by reason, we exhibit:
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a. temperance.
b. courage.
c. wisdom.
d. All of these answers are correct.
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Which of the following ideas was central to Thomas Hobbes's philosophy of values?
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a. Good and evil simply denote that which a person desires or hates.
b. Human happiness consists of pleasure and reason.
c. Moral evil is a case of misdirected love.
d. A natural law governs all morality, and human behavior must conform to it.
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Which of the following is considered a moral evil by Plato?
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a. willful disobedience of God
b. unnaturalness
c. ignorance of the good
d. desiring what is known to be bad
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According to Plato, _____ is the virtue that obtains when all elements of the soul function as they should in obedience to reason.
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a. temperance
b. justice
c. wisdom
d. courage
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According to John Stuart Mill, why should we seek to raise the general happiness rather than just our own?
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a. Our own happiness coincides with the general happiness.
b. God commands us to further the general happiness.
c. No one can rationally will that everyone ignore the general happiness.
d. By its very nature, morality singles out no one for preferential treatment.
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For Nietzsche, who or what is the source of ethical truth?
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a. God
b. the Superman
c. the ruler of a state
d. slaves
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According to Immanuel Kant, principles of morality can only be ascertained by:
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a. reason.
b. God.
c. consequences.
d. nature.
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What is the form of the ideal state according to Plato?
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a. It is an absolute monarchy run by the most powerful for his or her own sake.
b. It is a direct, participatory democracy in which every citizen has an equal share in ruling.
c. It is an aristocracy ruled by an elite group of intellectually superior individuals.
d. Plato did not think that there is any single form that the ideal state must take.
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_____ is the idea that the legitimacy of the state and the principles of sound justice derive their legitimacy from a societal agreement.
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a. Eternal law
b. Communism
c. Contractualism
d. General will
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In which of the following was the power of the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional established?
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a. The Declaration of Independence
b. The original Constitution
c. The Bill of Rights
d. Marbury v. Madison
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Karl Marx viewed human history as the struggle between two classes. What are they?
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a. a dominant class consisting of men and a subordinate class consisting of women and children
b. a dominant class that owns and controls the means of production and a subordinate class that doesn't
c. a dominant class of white Europeans and a subordinate class of nonwhite non-Europeans
d. a dominant class of the priesthood and a subordinate class of the laity
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According to Rousseau, which of the following determines what is right and wrong and should and should not be done?
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a. the will of all
b. the general will
c. God's will
d. natural law
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Identify a true statement about Marcuse's philosophical position.
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a. He perceived a weakening of the integration of the working classes into society.
b. He believed that morality means creating something and then making money from it.
c. He developed the ideas of ethical egoism, laissez-faire capitalism, and individual rights with his philosophy of Objectivism.
d. He believed that taking from the rich without compensation and giving to the poor is never just.
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_____ is an economic system in which ownership of the means of production and distribution is maintained primarily by private individuals and corporations.
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a. Communism
b. Socialism
c. Fascism
d. Capitalism
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Which of the following is the political philosophy based on the desire to preserve past social and political traditions and practices?
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a. conservatism
b. communism
c. fascism
d. socialism
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Which of the following descriptions best explains G. E. Moore's idea of good?
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a. pleasure
b. power
c. personal affection and aesthetic enjoyment
d. indefinable
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Which of the following best explains Mary Daly's stance about the image of God the Father?
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a. It is an image that appropriately expresses the power and awe of God.
b. It is an image that needs to be replaced with the image of God the Mother.
c. It perpetuates the artificial polarization of human qualities built into the traditional sexual stereotypes.
d. It is an image that only has negative effects among less sophisticated thinkers.
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According to Leibniz, what is the sufficient reason for the changing of the seasons?
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a. the earth's direction of rotation
b. the angle at which the earth's axis is tilted relative to the sun
c. monads
d. God
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What did Anselm believe about proving God's existence?
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a. You could do it using the concept of God as the greatest being conceivable.
b. God's existence follows from his definition in just the way that the existence of the most perfect island follows from its definition.
c. If you want to prove God's existence, you must first look at how the world is.
d. The existence of God can only be known by mystical experience. [Show Less]