Sextus Empiricus correct answer: -He held the position "I do not know whether knowledge is possible."
"I don't agree with Jones when she says we
... [Show More] should wait for a trial,... That's why I say let's hang him now!" What fallacy does this most clearly illustrate? correct answer: Red Herring
• Adam Smith correct answer: was a classical liberal economic theorist who was an exponent of capitalism and a laissez-faire economy.
• Albert Camus, correct answer: a French existentialist writer, emphasized the absurdity of the world and the inability of the individual to meet genuine human needs within it.
• C. S. Peirce correct answer: stated that "in order to ascertain the meaning of an intellectual conception one should consider what practical consequences might conceivably result by necessity from the truth of that conception, and the sum of these consequences will constitute the entire meaning of the conception."
• Chuang Tzu correct answer: was the most important Taoist after Lao Tzu and stressed the equality of opposites and the danger of usefulness.
• Confucius, correct answer: founder of the most dominant system of Chinese thought, emphasized the perfectibility of people as well as their ability to affect things for the better.
• David Hume correct answer: held that moral principles are neither divine edicts nor discoverable by reason and that value judgments are based on emotion. He said that the act that pleases our moral sensibilities is one that reflects the agent's benevolent character.
• David Hume, a religious skeptic, correct answer: provided classic criticisms of the teleological and cosmological arguments.
• Dogen Kigen, correct answer: a Japanese Zen monk, stressed the importance of acquiring the perspective of the universal Self, given the impermanence of life. 561
• Edmund Husserl correct answer: was the first great phenomenologist.
• Friedrich Nietzsche correct answer: also reacted strongly against Hegelian idealism; he anticipated important themes of existentialism.
• Friedrich Nietzsche believed that correct answer: the masses are ruled by a slave morality inculcated by religion, science, and philosophy. His statement "God is dead" meant that there is no rational order, not that people do not believe in God.
• G. E. Moore correct answer: was the most important early figure in c [Show Less]