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• PHIL101_MH_V6
• Topic 14: Eastern Influences
Started on Monday, April 4, 2022, 6:38 PM
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Who among the following is NOT a proponent of "intelligent design"?
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a. Michael Behe
b. Phillip Johnson
c. Richard Dawkins
d. William Dembski
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What kind of an argument did Kant use to justify the rationality of belief in God?
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a. ontological
b. cosmological
c. teleological
d. moral
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Which of the following is true of Immanuel Kant's refutation of the ontological proof of God?
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a. He stated that belief in God is not rationally justified.
b. He believed that existence is a perfection.
c. He argued that causality is a concept that is not applicable to things-as-experienced.
d. He argued that existence is a precondition of having characteristics, and not a characteristic in itself.
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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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Who among the following is a representative of the "First Wave" of feminist philosophy?
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a. Simone de Beauvoir
b. Julia Kristeva
c. Harriet Taylor
d. Nel Noddings
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According to Mary Wollstonecraft, which of the following virtues should be cultivated in women as well as men?
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a. docility
b. dependence
c. wisdom
d. sensitivity
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According to Nancy Chodorow, why do boys often become isolated, separate, and misogynous?
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a. Boys are naturally this way because of the presence of greater amounts of testosterone.
b. They are often teased and rejected by girls at a young age.
c. Society requires that boys make efforts to establish themselves as "not-mother."
d. Mass media, advertising, and entertainment combine to produce this result.
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Which of the following is true according to Julia Kristeva?
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a. The female semiotic has been devalued.
b. Feminine signification has been marginalized because it threatens the traditionally masculinist symbolic discourse.
c. Religious discourse can mediate a healing space between the symbolic and the semiotic.
d. All of these answers are correct.
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Helene Cixous recognizes that social structures are inherent in language, so she writes at the limits of language in a style called _____ to mitigate the damage done by "masculinist" structures in philosophical writing.
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a. binary opposition
b. ecriture feminine
c. logocentrism
d. geisteswissenschaften
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Who among the following coined the approach "maternal thinking"?
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a. Nel Noddings
b. Carol Gilligan
c. Nancy Chodorow
d. Sara Ruddick
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Which of the following is true of third-wave feminism?
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a. It accepts binary distinctions between men and women.
b. It accepts "sex positive" ideologies.
c. It rejects transsexual identities.
d. It represents the uniformity of all strands of theory.
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Identify a reason why feminist epistemologists are suspicious of the concept of the "ideal knower" as dispassionate, objective, and purely rational.
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a. These qualities are of no value in the pursuit of knowledge and truth.
b. Too many real people are like that, and they don't know much.
c. Even supposedly objective scientists are influenced by their own prejudices and biases.
d. They aren't suspicious of this concept at all.
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The whole focus of _____ work is to demonstrate that language doesn't exist outside the body.
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a. Sara Ruddick's
b. Hélène Cixous's
c. Nancy Chodorow's
d. Carol Gilligan's
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What is NOT true of Hinduism?
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a. It has no known founder.
b. It has no single religious body to interpret orthodoxy.
c. It has no scriptures or holy writings.
d. It has no unified set of doctrines.
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According to Siddhartha Gautama, what is an immediate cause of human suffering?
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a. the uncertainty of the world
b. ignorance
c. bad karma
d. sinful human nature
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To acquire Dogen's perspective of the universal Self, one must make continuous effort to do all things:
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a. with a parental mind.
b. contradictory to Chuang Tzu.
c. to seek profit and praise.
d. to become closer to the Mikado.
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According to Confucius, which of the following principles governs both the well-ordered family and the well-ordered state?
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a. the principle of yin/yang
b. the principle of the Mean
c. the principle of the equality of opposites
d. the principle of the parental mind
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What do samurai warriors believe in?
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a. winning beforehand
b. being a complete man, both scholar and warrior
c. being self-reliant and prepared for anything
d. All of these answers are correct.
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According to Hui Neng, which of the following is true about the ultimate reality or truth?
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a. It remains hidden to many because of their focus on false attachments and selfish interests.
b. It is divided into good and evil.
c. It is a state that both comes and goes, increases and decreases, and both lives and dies.
d. In principle, it is not accessible to anyone.
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In the context of the philosophy of Mencius, which of the following is considered true happiness?
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a. ruling an empire for the sake of power
b. being a Mikado
c. seeing parents and family alive and free from anxiety
d. being detached from one's intuition and conscience [Show Less]