Quiz 2: Human Nature
Philosophy
Q 1Q 1
Who said that men possess "a powerful measure of desire for aggressiveness"?
A) Sigmund Freud
B) Socrates
C) Plato
D) Jeremy Bentham
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Q 2Q 2
Moritz Schlick argued for
A) Ethical egoism
B) Psychological egoism
C) Ethical consequentialism
D) Psychological consequentialism
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Q 3Q 3
The view that "all humans have a rational spiritual self that is distinct from its body" is the
A) Buddhist view
B) Rational View
C) Traditional View
D) Hindu View
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Q 4Q 4
What, for Plato, was an eternal and perfect ideal that existed in an unchanging heaven?
A) Forms
B) Souls
C) Reason
D) Spirit
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Q 6Q 6
Who proposed the idea of natural selection?
A) Charles Darwin
B) Charles Taylor
C) Plotinus
D) Plato
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Q 7Q 7
The view that humans are whatever they make themselves is termed
A) Darwinism
B) Buddhism
C) Existentialism
D) Platonism
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Q 9Q 9
J.J.
A) Identify theory
B) Coextension theory
C) Smart endorsed what theory of human nature?
C) The Traditional View
D) The Existential View
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Q 10Q 10
The philosopher who believed that who you are depends on your relationships to others is:
A) Hegel
B) Plato
C) Taylor
D) Sartre
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Q 21Q 21
According to Plato, humans can control their appetites and aggressive impulses through the use of their ____________________.
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Q 22Q 22
Over thousands of years the process of ____________________ ____________________ can make a species change into a new species.
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Q 24Q 24
The view that processes such as thought and life are really nothing more than physical and chemical processes is called ____________________.
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Q 26Q 26
Behaviorism began as a school of ____________________ that restricted the study of humans to what could be observed.
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Q 27Q 27
____________________ is the view that we should explain mental states in terms of perceptual inputs and behavioral outputs.
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Q 29Q 29
____________________ argued that a person's culture is the mirror through which society shows her who and what she is.
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Q 30Q 30
Descrates' view of human nature says that humans are ____________________ minds with ____________________ bodies.
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Q 31Q 31
What is "psychological egoism"? Do you find it a compelling view of human nature? Why, or why not?
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Q 32Q 32
Do you think that humans have a different moral status than other animals? Why? If your view is that they have certain properties that other animals lack, do all humans have these properties? If not, do those that lack them lack the moral status that you ascribe to humans? If your view is that humans matter morally because they are human¾why does being human count for so much?
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Q 33Q 33
If we are genetically inclined to be selfish, does this justify our selfishness or merely explain it? Explain your answer.
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Q 34Q 34
Do you believe that there is a "you" to whom this question is addressed? Explain your answer.
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Q 35Q 35
Do you agree with the existentialists that humans are what they make of themselves? Why, or why not? What might the practical consequences of accepting the existentialist view be for (a) your own life, (b) social policy? Explain your answer.
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