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What science gets the Rationalism as a model for the Method?
Physics
Psychology
Biology
Maths
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Our body is not free, because it obeys to universal physic laws. We call that cartesian theory....
Anthropology
Mechanism
Empiricism
Rationalism
3
In what century wrote Descartes his work?
XVII
XV
XVI
XVIII
4
We can explain the entire reality through maths.... Who defend this idea?
Both
None of them
The student
The teacher
5
The idea of perfection and the idea of infinite or boundless are both…
Innates
Adventitious
None of them, these ideas are far more superior.
Factitious
6
Which one is not a substance for Descartes?
Res infinita
Res publica
Res infinita
Res cogitans
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What is the content of this first rule?
To list every possible detail of a problem.
To find the easiest solution and work up to the most difficult.
Never believe anything unless you know it to be true.
To analyse every problem into as many parts as are necessary.
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For the empiricism, we build our knowledge mostly through experience, but the Rationalism consider that…
All the previous answers are correct.
The senses are the main source to reach true knowledge.
We can’t reach the true knowledge, because all is relative.
Some ideas are innate, so we build our knowledge mostly through reasoning.
9
Read the question and select the correct answer:
All the previous answers are correct.
If we have the idea of infinite, this idea must come from God.
All the ideas which come from our mind are perfect, the error is not possib
Our mind is perfect, so we create the idea of God ourselves.
10
Which kind of idea was not defined by Descartes?
Suspicious
Innates
Factitious
Adventitious
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To which school of thought Descartes belong?
Scepticism
Rationalism
Scholasticism
Empiricism
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What is the main goal for the cartesian philosophy?
Fight against the dogmas of the Catholic Church
To hesitate, doubt of everything
Create an alibi which justified the existence of God.
To search the truth
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The first rule of the Method is…
Evidence
Synthesis
Analysis
Enumeration
14
First thing of which Descartes doubt in his Methodic Doubt
Senses
Reason
Wakefulness and dream
The existence of an Evil Demon or Evil Genius who mess up with our minds
15
What do have in common rationalism and empiricism?
They trust in achieve knowledge through reasoning.
Both believe that they can reach true knowledge with a correct method
They are completely opposed and have nothing in common.
They trust in achieve knowledge through senses.
16
Michael de Montaigne is the most important philosopher of….
Empiricism
Scholasticism
Rationalism
Renaissance Scepticism
17
Which philosopher, converted his theories in dogma during the Middle Age, was discredited by New Science?
Socrates
Aristotle
Archimedes
Plato
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What is the main difference between Scepticism and cartesian doubt?
The M.Doubt is not a standstill but a step in order to search the truth
None. Descartes copied the entire theories of Montaigne.
The Scep. doubt is not a standstill but a step in order to search the truth
The Scepticism doubt is based on the Greek philosophy
19
The word “substance” in cartesian philosophy means….
It is a synonymous for the material world.
An entity which only needs of itself (or God) to exist.
It makes reference to a hidden, more real and afterlife world.
It is a synonymous for the human soul.
20
Which scientist of the New Science design the “Experimental Method”?
Kepler
Leonardo Da Vinci
Galileo
Copernicus
21
Which philosophers disagree with the Ontological argument for the existence of God?
All the philosophers but Descartes refuse this argument.
Saint Augustine and Saint Anselm of Canterbury
Tomas Aquinas and Kant
Saint Anselm of Canterbury and David Hume
22
An evident knowledge must me…
Mathematical
The only evident knowledge is God
Uncertain
Clear and distinct
23
Descartes studied at “La Felchè”, a school which follow the principles of…
Renaissance Scepticism
Scholasticism
Empiricism
Rationalism
24
In which philosopher from the Middle Age based Descartes part of his demonstration of the God’s existence?
Raymond Lulio
Aristotle
Thomas Aquinas
Saint Augustine
25
Which qualities of the res extensa can we measure?
All of them are measurable.
Tertiary qualities
Secondary qualities
Primary qualities
26
Which is the main cause of the crisis in the thought of XVI century?
The discoveries of the New Science
The disagreement between the most famous scientists of the moment.
There is not a crisis in the thought of the XVI Century.
Instability and doubt at the Renaissance thought.
27
According to Descartes or freedom lies in our…
Will
Body
Perception
Understanding
28
The theory of the objective reality of the ideas says that...
The only idea that truly exist is the idea of God
Every idea must have a cause that will be proportional to this idea.
The ideas are some kind of reality outside our material world
The ideas are creations of our own mind, they're all false.
29
Who is buried here? You can visit this famous empiricist's tomb in Edimburgh, but be careful! It's haunted!
Adam Smith
Francis Bacon
David Hume
Thomas Hobbes
30
Exemplary wise man to the scientists from the Renaissance:
Thomas Aquinas
Raymond Lulio
Aristotle
Archimedes
31
At his Provisional Moral, Descartes give some tips in order to guide our life in the meantime we find the truth...
Maintain the religion that I have been taught since I was young
Always try to work in different changing paths in life and science.
Respect the laws of my country
Never abandon one path in live, despite is still uncertain.
32
Which is, according to Descartes the point that connect the body and the soul?
Lungs
Heart
Brain
Pineal gland
33
Philosophical trend from the XVII Century, opposing to Rationalism, based more in experience than reason:
Perspectivism
Empiricism
Scepticism
Scholastic
34
The main goal of the Methodic Doubt is…
To find a true knowledge, evident, clear and distinct.
To prove that the Devil actually exists and he is the cause of our doubt
To prove God’s existence
To doubt of everything
35
Which ones are not a characteristic of the passions of the soul?
Irrational
Evil
Involuntary
Aware
36
Exemplary wise man to the scientist from the Middle Age:
Plato
Jesus
Aristotle
Descartes
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First truth, first true knowledge evident, clear and distinct:
The human being has free will, the determinism doesn’t exist.
God is an innate idea; therefore, God exists.
I think, therefore I am.
We must doubt of our entire reality.
