USD Phil 110 S12: Quizzes

Quiz 8
Please write your name and "Quiz 8" at the top of your paper and answer the following questions:
  1. According to Aristotle, what is a function (2 points)? What is a virtue (2 points)? What is a vice (2 points)?
  2. Illustrate these concepts with an example. (4 points)
 
Quiz 7
Please write your name and "Quiz 7" at the top of your paper and answer the following questions:
  1. What is Mill's Greatest Happiness Principle? (2 points)
  2. What is the Doctrine Fit Only for Swine objection to Utilitarianism (3 points)? How does Mill respond to it (3 points)?
  3. What is one candidate for happiness/the highest good that Aristotle considers? Why does he reject it? (2 points)
 
Quiz 6
Please write your name and "Quiz 6" at the top of your paper and answer the following questions:
  1. Briefly describe the four character types Kant discusses. (1 point each). Which is the most moral? Why? (2 points)
  2. How does Kant use the Formula of Universal Law to show that it is wrong to make a lying promise? (4 points)

Quiz 5
Please write your name and "Quiz 5" at the top of your paper and answer the following questions:
  1. What is Indirect Realism? (2 points)
  2. What is Subjective Idealism? (2 points) What is Berkeley's argument for it? (2 points)
  3. Explain and give an example of one of the forms of integration associated with the Pre-Columbian Mesoamericans. (4 points)

Quiz 4
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  1. Explain the Taoist cosmology. (4 points)
  2. Explain Plato's Allegory of the Cave (a picture is fine). (6 points)

Quiz 3
Please write your name and "Quiz 3" at the top of your paper and answer the following questions:
  1. Explain one form of doubt that Descartes considers in Meditation I. Be sure to explain the nature of the doubt (1 point) what beliefs that form of doubt calls into question (2 points) and what beliefs survive that form of doubt (2 points).
  2. Explain Descartes Cogito argument (3 points).
  3. Explain Cartesian Dualism (2 points).
 
Quiz 2
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  1. According to Al-Ghazali, what are the three criteria for what counts as knowledge? (2 points each)
  2. What is one potential source of "self-evident" knowledge that Al-Ghazali considers? (2 points) Why does he reject it? (2 points)

Quiz 1
Please print your name and "Quiz 1" at the top of your paper and answer the following questions:
  1. Briefly describe the structure of an Athenian trial (a numbered list is fine). (6 points)
  2. What are two of the charges leveled against Socrates at his trial? (2 points each)
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