HZT4U Metaphysics Test Review 2024

Thinking is nothing more than electro chemical material reactions in the brain. What theory is this which is associated with Thomas Hobbes & Gilbert Ryle?

• materialism

• idealism

• libertarianism

• solipism

al-Farabi believed the self was based in the understanding that the mind reflects, the Agent Intellect, the mind of God. This is the...

• none of these options

• soul

• matter

• agent intellect

His self as a social animal notes personal identity is found in the relationship between a background of practices and bodily habits.

• Thomas Aquinas

• Charles Taylor

• Saint Anselm

• John Locke

Kant believed the idea of time originated in the human mind as a mental construct devised to organize our experiences

• objective time

• subjective relativity of time

• absolute time

• zen buddhist time

All the theories of the self are significant to philosophy because...

• they examine the nature of time

• they examine the nature of personal identity

• the examine the nature of the soul

• cause they make you think!

Which philosopher is associated with zen buddhist time?

• Dogen

• Descartes

• Hume

• Voltaire

Descartes understood the self to be a self aware being that includes many types of thinking

• materialism

• rational self

• bundle of perceptions

• agent intellect

Newton believed in absolute time which is the belief time is independent of events.

• absolute time

• zen buddist time

• subjective relativity of time

• objective relativity of time

William James support of truth is what works by experience

• logical positivism

• pragmatism

• antirealism

In explaining his view of the self, Hume notes there is not a single thread that holds it together and makes it the same from one time to the next.

• bundle of kittens

• bundle of ideals

• bundle of material realities

• bundle of perceptions