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Metaphysics

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Describe the project theory

a)

The self is always under active construction. It is never finished.

b)

Self is a determinable and unitary thing

c)

self is a collection of bits and pieces of experience

d)

self is described by narrative structure and unity

2.

Self is defined by story-like structure and unity. Is the __________ theory of self

a)

bundle

b)

project

c)

narrative

d)

substance

3.

Self is a determinable and unitary thing. This is the __________ theory of the self.

a)

bundle

b)

project

c)

substance

d)

narrative

4.

Describe the bundle theory.

a)

Self is always under active construction it is never finished.

b)

Self is a unitary and determinable thing.

c)

Self is bits and pieces/collection of experience.

d)

Self is defined by story-like structure and unity.

5.

Who believed the self is dynamic and ever changing. Made up of layers, woven and rewoven over time? He ultimately believes we never can know ourselves.

a)

Richard Rorty

b)

Stuart Hampshire

6.

Who believes that self knowledge involves acquiring knowledge about your desires, beliefs, emotion and character traits? He thought that seeing yourself from the outside will allow you to observe aspects of yourself. He ultimately believed that we can know who we are.

a)

Richard Rorty

b)

Stuart Hampshire

7.

What are the ideas of anitya and impermanence?

a)

Everything is in a state of flux

b)

The idea that all things have and end and everything is temporary

c)

All of the above

8.

Who believed in the ideas of Anitya and Impermanece?

a)

Haudenosaunee

b)

Nagarjuna

c)

Spinoza

d)

Buddhists

9.

Who believed that everything is empty and missing an intrinsic nature?

a)

Spinoza

b)

Haundenosaunee

c)

Nagarjuna

d)

Buddhists

10.

He had the idea of the infinite substance. Where there is only one substance- it must be infinite, timeless and perfect. He believe that this one substance is God.

a)

Spinoza

b)

Nagarjuna

c)

Abu Nasr al-Farabi

d)

Ibn Sina

11.

In "The Event or Being" theory. ________ thought of being as a special thing or entity- such as a timeless form or substance. ________ thought that being is more of a virtue.


a)

Plato, Spinoza

b)

Heidegger, Plato

c)

Plato, Heidegger

d)

None of the above

12.

____________ believes in the agent intellect. He believes that the agent intellect lights up our world so we can understand it.

a)

Ibn Sina

b)

Spinoza

c)

Nargarjuna

d)

Abu Nasr al-Farabi

13.

__________ believes that a soul is a substance that is immortal.

a)

Ibn Sina

b)

Abu Nasr al-Farabi

14.

Everything is made up of matter. Everything that exists, thoughts, consciousness and personality, are made of matter. Matter = physical.

a)

materialism

b)

idealism

c)

realism

d)

dualism

15.

Reality consists of ideas and the minds that house them. Direct opposite of materialism. (Berkely's theory)

a)

materialism

b)

realism

c)

idealism

d)

monism

16.

Reality consists of ideal forms, or ideas, that are timeless, unchanging, immaterial, and more perfect than things in the material world of sense and perception. (Plato's theory)

a)

idealism

b)

realism

c)

dualism

d)

taoism

17.

Reality consists of two fundamentally different kinds of things: mind and matter. (Descartes' theory)

a)

monism

b)

existentialism

c)

dualism

d)

realism

18.

Reality consists of one all-encompassing thing and that all particular things are expressions of this one thing. The presumption that mind and body are different aspects of the same thing. (Spinoza's theory)

a)

dualism

b)

existentialism

c)

taoism

d)

monism

19.

A Chinese philosophy in which people live a simple life in harmony with nature. The path of least resistance.

a)

existentialism

b)

dualism

c)

taoism

d)

monism

20.

a philosophical theory or approach that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will.

a)

dualism

b)

realism

c)

idealism

d)

existentialism