Philosophy Final Review

According to Bertrand Russell, we should study philosophy for the sake of the ...

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According to Socrates, what is the primary reason to study philosophy?

• Improve our souls
• Develop our minds
• Strengthen our bodies
• Learn about the universe

What adjective would Yvette Doss use to describe philosophy?

• Empowering
• Challenging
• Worthless
• Elitist

According to Bertrand Russell, the practical man is concerned with -----, while the student of philosophy cares about -----.

• Materialism, feeding their mind
• Abstract goods, concrete goods
• nothing, the universe
• the mind, the body

In Socrates' metaphor of the gadfly, what does the horse represent?

• Society
• The philosopher
• The physical world
• The youth

In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, what does the sun represent?

• The world as we perceive it
• The Truth
• Education
• The philosopher

Who wrote, "I think, therefore I am"?

• Descartes
• Hume
• Kant
• Plato

Who wrote, "The only thing I know is that I know nothing"?

• Socrates
• Descartes
• Kant
• Aristotle

What epistemological perspective did Hume represent?

• Rationalism

• Empiricism

• Romanticism

• Post-Modernism

Which two epistemological perspectives did Kant try to reconcile?

• Post-Modernism, Romanticism

• Romanticism, Rationalism

• Rationalism, Empiricism

• Empiricism, Post-Modernism