Super Mega VCE Philosophy Set Text Quizapalooza, Part III

Question 1

What does Singer believe is the problem with our idea of charity?

Accepted Answer

It is good to do, but not bad not to do.

Question 2

Which of the following best describes Descartes position?

Accepted Answer

Dualist

Question 3

What is Socrates conception of the good life?

Accepted Answer

One of harmony, discipline, temperance and teaching others.

Question 4

What is Descartes Cogito argument?

Accepted Answer

I think therefore I am

Question 5

According to Plato the soul learns by

Accepted Answer

remembering from the world of forms

Question 6

Callicles offers 3 ideas in a row of what makes someone superior. Which is the correct order?

Accepted Answer

Strength, Cleverness, Political cleverness and courage.

Question 7

John Arthur offers a critique of Peter Singer based on

Accepted Answer

rights and deserts

Question 8

For Descartes the existence of the external world is utlimately guaranteed by

Accepted Answer

God

Question 9

Why does Descartes believe we can doubt everything?

Accepted Answer

We can never tell if we are not sleeping., Our senses can be deceived, Some powerful being might be deceiving us

Question 10

What does Aristotle recognise as the chief good for human beings?

Accepted Answer

Happiness

Question 11

Socrates says the soul participates in the form of life, what does this mean?

Accepted Answer

That it cannot die.

Question 12

What is Singer's first premiss?

Accepted Answer

Death and suffering from starvation is bad.

Question 13

In Aristotle's triads, what is the deficit of wit?

Accepted Answer

Boorishness

Question 14

The attunement objection suggests what about the soul and the body?

Accepted Answer

The soul exists due to the body's composition

Question 15

Why does Nietzsche think suffering is good?

Accepted Answer

Creation and greatness come through overcoming suffering.

Question 16

According to Nietzsche when a society becomes 'safe' what happens to the morals?

Accepted Answer

They change, what was once helpful is now dangerous

Question 17

What does the wax argument tell us?

Accepted Answer

The mind is a better knower and better known than the body.

Question 18

Does Nietzsche think that there is one morality we should all subscribe to?

Accepted Answer

No

Question 19

Does Singer think that there is one morality we should all subscribe to?

Accepted Answer

Yes

Question 20

What does Singer believe has no impact on whether or not we should help?

Accepted Answer

proximity and how many other people could help

Question 21

What does Hume think we are instead of self?

Accepted Answer

An ever changing bundle of perceptions.

Question 22

What is marginal utility?

Accepted Answer

the point at which to give more would cause more suffering

Question 23

What does Hume believe gives us a sense of personal identity

Accepted Answer

Resemblance and causation

Question 24

What is the role of memory in Hume's theory?

Accepted Answer

Memory is the discoverer but not the producer of identity.

Question 25

Is the Milk the same as the Ghee?

Accepted Answer

No, but they are connected to each other.

Question 26

Which of the following is a reply of Socrates to the attunement objection?

Accepted Answer

The soul can be good or bad but attunement can't, The soul directs the actions of the body.

Question 27

What does Hume believe he needs to do to show we don't have a constant self?

Accepted Answer

Any change whatsoever in us.

Question 28

The thought experiment of the prince and the pauper proves that

Accepted Answer

our person goes where our consciousness is.

Question 29

Singer's first name is

Accepted Answer

Peter

Question 30

Why does Locke reject that being the same organism makes us the same person?

Accepted Answer

Because our person goes where our consciousness is.

Question 31

Why does Armstrong reject behaviorism?

Accepted Answer

Because it seems like we have an inner cause of behavior.

Question 32

What does the story of the Mangoes tell us about punishment for past crimes?

Accepted Answer

We should be punished because the people are connected.

Question 33

what is one reason why Locke things same soul doesn't make the same person?

Accepted Answer

we can imagine the soul being shared between 2 people.

Question 34

According to Nietzsche what is the job of the "new philosophers"?

Accepted Answer

To lay bare the hypocrisy of the herd

Question 35

Locke makes a technical distinction between

Accepted Answer

a man and a person

Question 36

what does Armstrong believe mental states are?

Accepted Answer

Dispositions to behave

Question 37

The ship of Theseus is a thought experiment about

Accepted Answer

the persistence of identity through time

Question 38

Which of the following best explains the Skandhas?

Accepted Answer

They give us a false sense of self as they always change.

Question 39

Which best describes Hume's theory of personal identity?

Accepted Answer

“identity” is just a union of separate perceptions we create

Question 40

The thought experiment of the Chinese Room proves that

Accepted Answer

Cognition is more than pattern-matching

Question 41

Does Locke think I should be punished for a crime I don't remember committing?

Accepted Answer

Yes, but only because you could be lying about forgetting.

Question 42

What is Armstrong's conclusion?

Accepted Answer

that mental events are physical events

Question 43

What does Callicles believe Socrates confuses?

Accepted Answer

natural law and convention.

Question 44

According to Nietzsche what do false commanders do?

Accepted Answer

Command in the name of something else

Question 45

According to Nagasena what is it we call our self?

Accepted Answer

Where the Skhandas are.

Question 46

According to Nagasena what is the self?

Accepted Answer

There is no self.

Question 47

Which of these is not a thought experiment?

Accepted Answer

The Axiom of Transitivity

Question 48

Who says the soul might be like a cloak that outlasts a few owners (bodies) but still perishes?

Accepted Answer

Cebes

Question 49

For John Locke the basis of personal identity is?

Accepted Answer

Continuity of consciousness.

Question 50

Aristotle describes virtue as ...

Accepted Answer

A mean between two extremes

Question 51

Why does Armstrong say we should believe the scientific community?

Accepted Answer

Science reaches consensus among experts.

Question 52

What is Callicles' idea of the good life?

Accepted Answer

Having unlimited desires and doing everything to achieve it.

Question 53

According to Nagasena what is it we call our self?

Accepted Answer

Where the Skhandas are.

Question 54

Aristotle believes we can achieve happiness by

Accepted Answer

Completing our function (reason) well/with virtue

Question 55

Socrates believes that the soul is like

Accepted Answer

The forms, incorporeal and divine.

Question 56

Does Socrates believe the soul lives after the body dies?

Accepted Answer

Yes

Question 57

How does Armstrong explain consciousness

Accepted Answer

A mental state that looks inward, a self scanning mechanism, An awareness of what is going on in your own mind.

Question 58

What does Singer think about you if you don't give money to famine relief?

Accepted Answer

You are immoral

Question 59

What kind of thing does Descartes thinks he is?

Accepted Answer

A thinking thing

Question 60

Does Socrates believe it is better to do wrong or to suffer wrong?

Accepted Answer

suffer wrong

Super Mega VCE Philosophy Set Text Quizapalooza, Part III

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Super Mega VCE Philosophy Set Text Quizapalooza, Part III

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