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PHM 3020: Philosophy of Love Test Three Review

Total questions: 65

Worksheet time: 33mins

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1.

According to Marion in the section "The Silence of Love", philosophy departed from love through three inversions. Which of the following was NOT one of these inversions? 

a)

a. refusal of love's unity 

b)

b. refusal of love's primacy

c)

c. refusal of love's kindness

d)

d. refusal of love's erotic phenomenon

2.

T/F: According to Marion, reciprocity is crucial to love and must be accepted.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

The key definition for Bell Hooks account for love is:

a)

A. Love is the key to ultimate reality and spiritual fulfillment.

b)

B. Self love is the foundation of our loving practice.

c)

C. The will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.

d)

D. The embodiment of love and justice coinciding. 

4.

True or False: For Marion, the obstacle for love is reciprocity? 

a)

True

b)

False

5.

What does hooks believe about lying?

a)

A. Lying is a necessary part of life and love.

b)

B. We are taught to lie and not to express our true feelings, and this cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love.

c)

C. Consumer culture discourages lying and instead promotes a commitment to truth.

d)

D. Bell Hooks doesn’t discuss lying because it has nothing to do with love.

6.

True or False Marion believes that love is said and given in one way.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

What does the erotic reduction demand a response to?

a)

A. How will you love me?

b)

B. Do you love me?

c)

C. Does anybody love me?

d)

D. Why do you love me?

8.

True or False the order in which the erotic reduction flows is as follows: the advance, the oath, faithfulness, the crossing of the flesh, the adieu

a)

True

b)

False

9.

True or False: Marion rejects the idea of reciprocity in love.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Which of the following is NOT a part of Marion’s Erotic Reduction?

a)

a. The Advance

b)

b. The Oath

c)

c. The Breakthrough

d)

d. The Crossing of the Flesh

11.

Which of the following questions/statements by Marion “puts the lover into play as radically individualized and unsubstitutable?”

a)

a. Can I love first?

b)

b. Here I am!

c)

c. Does anybody love me?

d)

d. I am coming!

12.

True or false, bell hooks sees love as a verb.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

Genuine love is a combination of . . . ?

a)

A. care, commitment, trust, knowledge, responsibility, respect

b)

B. love, care, loyalty, obedience, subservience, hostility

c)

C. care, commitment, trust, knowledge, respect, jealousy 

d)

D. care, commitment, attitude, knowledge, respect, trust, 

14.

On page six of, The Erotic Phenomenon, Marion asserts that to develop a concept of love, situated within its own proper horizon, he must bring about three inversions. The first inversion is that a concept of love is not pluralistic, but univocal. The second inversion is that a concept of love must lend rationality to everything deemed irrational by non-erotic thought. The third is that a proper concept of love must recognize love without being.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

Which method does Jean Luc Marion use to describe his philosophy of love?

a)

A. Phenomenological

b)

B. Epistemological

c)

C. Ontological

d)

D. Semiotic

e)

E. Axiomatic

16.

True or false: Could one describe Bell Hook’s vison of love as “unified?”

a)

True

b)

False

17.

How does bell hooks define "love?"

a)

a. split into different categories such as unconditional and preferential love

b)

b. an emotion or feeling we experience

c)

c. the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth

d)

d. a state of being

18.

True or False Marion's philosophy of love most closely resembles that of Singer's philosophy of love.

a)

True

b)

Fasle

19.

Which form of love does hooks not address in her philosophy?

a)

    a. Genuine love

b)

  b. Erotic love

c)

    c. True love

d)

d. Perfect love

20.

True or False according to Marion, philosophers have accurately addressed and understood love.

a)

True

b)

False

21.

According to hooks, love and abuse cannot coexist.

a)

True

b)

False

22.

What does sentimentality and pornography stem from, according to Marion?

a)

A. Ego

b)

B. Happiness

c)

C. Love

d)

D. Spirituality

23.

Which is not included in Marion’s erotic reduction process?

a)

A. The Oath

b)

B. The Advance

c)

C. The Transaction

d)

D. The Adieu

24.

True or False Marion says self-love is not possible, even when it comes out of another person loving you.

a)

True

b)

False

25.

True or False according to Hook life without love is not worth living.

a)

True

b)

False

26.

According to Hook, what is love?

a)

a. Deep, passionate affection

b)

b. a combination of care, commitment, trust, knowledge, responsibility, and respect

c)

c. the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.

d)

d. all of the above

27.

According to Marion, what must a lover suspend in order to love first?

a)

A. A lover must suspend reciprocity and reason. 

b)

B. A lover must suspend reciprocity and faith.

c)

C. A lover must suspend reason and belief. 

d)

D. A lover need not suspend anything.

28.

True or False According to hooks, in order for our world to become more loving, we must dismantle patriarchy, ensure love is present in everyone’s childhood, and lie to others to maintain the appearance that we are loving.

a)

True

b)

False

29.

Which of these is not one of Marion’s three inversions? 

a)

A. Love’s Unity 

b)

B. Love’s Primacy

c)

C. Love’s timelessness

d)

D. Love’s rationality

30.

True or False Marion believes poetry and literature provide a clear understanding of love and philosophy’s role is primarily to expand on this work.

a)

True

b)

False

31.

Which of the following questions characterizes the erotic reduction according to Marion?

a)

A. What’s the use?

b)

B. Can I love?

c)

C. What do I know?

d)

D. Does anyone love me?

32.

True or False According to Marion, one can be assured of oneself, through oneself.

a)

True

b)

False

33.

The statment, "Here I am" refers to...

a)

A. An Oath; promise of love and a mutual/ reciprocal arrangment  

b)

B. Only the "I love you" aspect

c)

C. The explanation of love not interpreted through metaphysics or phenomenology

d)

D. Trancedence into a higher realm 

34.

True or False hooks agrees with and utilizes Pecks definition of love; only when discussing the lack of love the United States has for children (lack of children's civil rights). 

a)

True

b)

False

35.

True or False within the Erotic Reduction, 'here' is not simply a place where your body is presently at but rather centered on you by those that love you for as long as they love you.

a)

True

b)

False

36.

Which is not a concept that Marion discusses or states?

a)

A. You are not yourself but rather become yourself through acts of love.

b)

B. Flesh is the experiencing of oneself within oneself, or reflexive feeling.

c)

C. In the crossing of flesh, the erotic reduction is accomplished.

d)

D. The conception of love between a friend is different from that between a lover.

37.

According to bell hooks, genuine love is a combination of:

a)

 A. Affection, respect, open communication, and trust.

b)

   B. Recognition, knowledge, intuition, confidence, and respect.

c)

   C. Care, commitment, trust, knowledge, responsibility, and respect 

d)

   D. Nothing, she does not believe that genuine love exists.

38.

According to Marion, erotic language and communicative language are the same.

a)

True

b)

False

39.

Which of the following is not a form of love depicted in Bell Hook’s work All About Love? 

a)

A. True Love

b)

 B. Indefinite Love

c)

C. Genuine Love 

d)

D. Perfect Love

40.

 Marion believes that self love is achievable and a necessity in order to love another person.

a)

True

b)

False

41.

Which of the following answer choices would Marion most likely agree with?

a)

A. Through the crossing of the flesh, one is using the other.

b)

B. In the child, the oath is made flesh, forever witnessing the oath.

c)

C. Faithfulness temporalizes love and can never be proven.

d)

D. One can love oneself without the mediation of the other.

42.

True or False in Marion’s work known as The Erotic Phenomenon, Marion believes that the erotic reduction begins with the advance, and that the reduction requires ceaseless repetition in order to confirm the uniqueness and infinity of the other.

a)

True

b)

False

43.

Which of these is NOT a step in Marion's Erotic Reduction?

a)

a) the oath

b)

b) the adieu

c)

c) the leap of faith

d)

d) the crossing of the flesh 

44.

True or False Marion believes that phenomenon such as God's love, or the love of a friend are fundamentally different from erotic love.

a)

True

b)

False

45.

 What is bell hook’s definition of Love?

a)

A. The will to extend one’s nature for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.

b)

B. The will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s natural growth.

c)

 C. The will to extend one’s love or the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.

d)

D. The will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.

46.

True or False in his work, The Erotic Reduction, Marion thinks that reason defines Man.

a)

True

b)

False

47.

True or False Marion believes in Determinism as a foundation for love.

a)

True

b)

False

48.

Which of the following is NOT part of "Our point of departure: the Three Inversions?

a)

A. Loves Rationality

b)

B. Loves Primacy

c)

C. Loves Theory

d)

D. Loves Rationality 

49.

According to hooks’ belief, there is an apparent and undeniable connection between love and ____.

a)

a) success

b)

b) spirituality 

c)

c) joy

d)

d) none of the above

50.

True or False the lover, who loves without reciprocity, renounces reason and sufficiency. 

a)

True

b)

False

51.

Which of these is something Marion would NOT agree with?

a)

A. We cannot love bodies, because they are not flesh

b)

B. Love is something we should expect to be reciprocated.

c)

C. It’s possible to enter the erotic reduction with your best friend.

d)

D. All of the above

52.

True or False Marion would agree with Spinoza that looking at love logically helps us understand it better.

a)

True

b)

False

53.

True or False the erotic reduction is a process that happens in the moment of the present.

a)

True

b)

False

54.

Which is not an “system of hate” that hooks criticizes?

a)

A. patriarchy

b)

B. academia

c)

c. white supremacy

d)

D. capitalism

55.

True or false in The Erotic Phenomenon, Marion believes that love/the erotic reduction cannot be fully understood through reason.

a)

True

b)

False

56.

Which of the following does Marion consider to be the “third party” in a relationship in the final section of The Erotic Phenomenon?

a)

A. A child

b)

B. The beloved’s parents/the lover’s in-laws

c)

C. The new lover the beloved is having an affair with

d)

D. None of the above

57.

What literary figure is analyzed by Marion as an example of the lover’s advance?

a)

A. Don Quixote

b)

B. Don Juan

c)

C. Figaro

d)

D. Godot

58.

True or False according to Bell Hooks, we are born loving but as we go through life, we become less loving.

a)

True

b)

False

59.

What does Marion mean by “the principle of insufficient reason?”

a)

A. We only fall in love when it’s clearly unreasonable to do so

b)

B. Reason is insufficient in explaining the initiative of the lover

c)

C. We can’t love someone if they don’t love us back, because doing this would be unreasonable

d)

D. When we find that our reasons for loving someone are insufficient, we stop loving them

60.

Bell Hooks believes in a pluralistic philosophy of love and doesn’t assert a proper definition of it.

a)

True

b)

False

61.

hooks believes that _______ hinders love.

a)

a. Dishonesty

b)

b. Patriarchy

c)

c. Worship of death

d)

d. All of the above

62.

For hooks, self-love is essential to loving another.

a)

True

b)

False

63.

Bell Hooks believes both men and women have inherently different perspectives on love.

a)

True

b)

False

64.

Which example best reflects the nature of a crossed phenomenon within the erotic reduction?

a)

a. Feeling both love and hate towards someone

b)

b. Two people meeting for the first time

c)

c. Viewing yourself in 3rd person

d)

d. Playing an instrument

65.

Jean-Luc Marion claims that love can be found only through adequate knowledge of the erotic reduction

a)

True

b)

False