Question 1

What is truth?

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To say of what is that it is,

Question 2

Pleasure, for Aristotle, is

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A)  never to be sought as an end. 
B)  the end that humans are naturally motivated by. 
C)  unsuitable as the principal end for rational creatures. 
D)  the reason we should be virtuous. 
A)  never to be sought as an end. 
B)  the end that humans are naturally motivated by. 
C)  unsuitable as the principal end for rational creatures. 
D)  the reason we should be virtuous.

Question 3

A statement, according to Aristotle, is

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A)  like a prayer. 
B)  composed of three or more terms. 
C)  like knowledge, always true. 
D)  either true or false. 
A)  like a prayer. 
B)  composed of three or more terms. 
C)  like knowledge, always true. 
D)  either true or false.

Question 4

The first principles of a science are

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A)  the clearest and most certain things we know. 
B)  arrived at by demonstration. 
C)  proved to be true through syllogistic reasoning. 
D)  unknowable. 
A)  the clearest and most certain things we know. 
B)  arrived at by demonstration. 
C)  proved to be true through syllogistic reasoning. 
D)  unknowable.

Question 5

Aristotle differs from Plato in

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A)  believing knowledge is different from opinion. 
B)  holding that something like a puppy is as real as anything can be. 
C)  loving wisdom less. 
D)  being more otherworldly than Plato. 
A)  believing knowledge is different from opinion. 
B)  holding that something like a puppy is as real as anything can be. 
C)  loving wisdom less. 
D)  being more otherworldly than Plato.

Question 6

Virtue, Aristotle says, is defined by a mean relative to us. He means that

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A)  facts about an individual and her circumstances are relevant to what should be done. 
B)  we all have different values. 
C)  if you think x is the right thing to do, who's to say you are wrong? 
D)  there are no virtues common to all. 
A)  facts about an individual and her circumstances are relevant to what should be done. 
B)  we all have different values. 
C)  if you think x is the right thing to do, who's to say you are wrong? 
D)  there are no virtues common to all.

Question 7

Compare Aristotle's view of knowledge with that of Plato. What are its characteristics? What are its objects? By what procedures can we come to know?

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Aristotle's view of knowledge differs fr

Question 8

The importance of scripted ritual is a difficult thing to sell to students who value an independent, unique, and self-reliant mode of cultural expression. This is especially true in regard to the rituals of everyday Confucian life, as opposed to funeral or birth rites. Try to get them thinking about how the smoothing of daily interaction would make life better because it would be less awkward. I find that students rarely consider awkwardness an important social issue.

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It can be challenging to convince studen

Question 9

Does having a bad character excuse a person? Explain.

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The answer of Does having a bad character excuse a...

Question 10

What is an essence?

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An essence is a form belonging to a subs

Question 11

Characterize the three kinds of soul.

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The answer of Characterize the three kinds of soul....

Question 12

(a) Explain the development of an acorn into an oak tree in an Aristotelian manner, using the concepts of matter and form, potentiality and actuality, together with the four causes.
(b) Contrast this with an atomist account of the same phenomena.

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(a) In an Aristotelian manner, the devel

Question 13

Nature is purposive, Aristotle says, in virtue of

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A)  the plan God had in mind when he created nature. 
B)  intentions resident in every nature-fact. 
C)  the entelechy resident in things. 
D)  our using nature for our own purposes. 
A)  the plan God had in mind when he created nature. 
B)  intentions resident in every nature-fact. 
C)  the entelechy resident in things. 
D)  our using nature for our own purposes.

Question 14

What distinguishes primary substance from all the other categories?

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The answer of What distinguishes primary substance from all the...

Exam 8: Plato: Knowing the Real and the Good

What is truth?

Pleasure, for Aristotle, is

A statement, according to Aristotle, is

The first principles of a science are

Aristotle differs from Plato in

Virtue, Aristotle says, is defined by a mean relative to us. He means that

Compare Aristotle's view of knowledge with that of Plato. What are its characteristics? What are its objects? By what procedures can we come to know?

Does having a bad character excuse a person? Explain.

What is an essence?

Characterize the three kinds of soul.

(a) Explain the development of an acorn into an oak tree in an Aristotelian manner, using the concepts of matter and form, potentiality and actuality, together with the four causes. (b) Contrast this with an atomist account of the same phenomena.

Nature is purposive, Aristotle says, in virtue of

What distinguishes primary substance from all the other categories?

Before Philosophy: Myth in Hesiod and Homer

Philosophy Before Socrates

Appearance and Reality in Ancient India

The Sophists: Rhetoric and Relativism in Athens

Reason and Relativism in China

Socrates: to Know Oneself

The Trial and Death of Socrates

Aristotle: The Reality of the World

Confucius, Mencius, and Xunzi: Virtue in Ancient China

Epicureans, Stoics, and Skeptics: Happiness for the Many

Jews and Christians: Sin, Salvation, and Love

Augustine: God and the Soul

Philosophy in the Islamic World: The Great Conversation Spreads Out

Anselm and Aquinas: Existence and Essence in God and the World

From Medieval to Modern Europe

René Descartes: Doubting Our Way to Certainty

Hobbes, Locke, and Berkeley: Materialism and the Beginnings of Empiricism

David Hume: Unmasking the Pretensions of Reason

Immanuel Kant: Rehabilitating Reason Within Strict Limits

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Taking History Seriously

Kierkegaard and Marx: Two Ways to Correct Hegel

Moral and Political Reformers: The Happiness of All, Including Women

Friedrich Nietzsche: The Value of Existence

The Pragmatists: Thought and Action

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Linguistic Analysis and Ordinary Language

Martin Heidegger: The Meaning of Being

Simone De Beauvoir: Existentialist, Feminist

Postmodernism: Derrida, Foucault, and Rorty

Physical Realism and the Mind: Quine, Denne

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