WorksheetsSome Basic Concepts and Rousseau
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 9mins
Which of the following terms refers to the branch of philosophy that studies the nature of knowledge and knowledge acquisition?
Ontology
Ethics
Rationalism
Epistemology
Empiricism is the belief that
knowledge is based on observed physical phenomena and sense impressions
knowledge cannot be acquired as we are all finite
the belief that knowledge is not based on sense impressions
The study of being or existence is called (a) .
All brothers are male. Jack is my brother. Therefore, Jack is male.
The above logical reasoning is an example of
deduction
induction
I have seen only black crows. Therefore all crows are probably black.
The above is an example of ______________
deduction
induction
I can never prove that all crows are black. Even if I see one brown crow, the assertion that all crows are black will be disproven.
The above is an example of the principle of (a) .
The ______________ was the political movement influenced by enlightenment philosophy.
The Boston Tea Party
The French Revolution
The American War of Independence
Which of the following statements are true with regard to Rousseau's beleifs?
Human beings are innately evil
It is the institutions of civilisation that corrupt human beings
All human beings must be taught in schools to ensure liberty, equality and fraternity
Freedom and equality can be gained only through civic laws
For Rousseau, living without civilisation and without any of the organis of civilisation is living in
Noble Savage
Sovereign
a state of nature
Civil State
Rousseau's idea of original goodness posed a challenge to
Hobbes' belief that without external authority, human beings would behave like Leviathans, in an anarchic manner
Marx's ideas on the ownership of means of production
Early Western feminists' belief in the equality of genders
Plato's belief in an ideal world of forms and ideas
According to Rousseau, when human beings enter into a social contract
they begin to use their sense of reasoning
they begin to use all their senses
they begin to pretend to be people they are not in order to fit in
they willingly forego their freedom for the common good
Which of the following statements about General WIll are true? (more than one option may be right)
It is what is left after all individual wills are cancelled out
it is the sum of the individual wills
It always tends towards the best interests of all
It is potentially totalitarian
It is the will of those in power
In relation to the collective body created by the association of people with individual wills of their own, What is the difference between Civil State and Sovereign?
When the body is active, it is sovereign, when it is passive it is Civil State
When the body is passive, it is sovereign, when it is active it is Civil State
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven!—Oh! times,
In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways
Of custom, law, and statute, took at once
The attraction of a country in romance!
When Reason seemed the most to assert her rights,
When most intent on making of herself
A prime Enchantress—to assist the work
Which then was going forward in her name!
What do you think Wordsworth was writing about here?
(a)
