Phil. 26

Prof. Justin

Exam 2: Part 2

Procedure: Select the best answer to each of the following questions. Mark the letter of the answer only on an 882-E scantron. Answers submitted in some other format will not be accepted. Put your name on the scantron. Put your name on the scantron. Put your 882-E scantron along with your essay into my Lock Box which is outside my office (Mendocino 3024) or slide them under my office door or hand them in to the Philosophy department secretary (Mendocino 3000) by the due date and time as indicted on the syllabus. No late short answers or essays will be accepted. See the syllabus for due date.

1. Which of the following is Plato’s view of the soul?

a. It is a set of capacities which is not separable from the body.

b. It is simply the mind, a separable entity, which can exist without the body.

c. It is an invisible, non-physical self-mover, which has a better or worse afterlife, depending on the moral quality of its embodied life.

d. It is a non-physical entity, marked by original sin, which depends for its after-life on the possessor’s belief in God and God’s grace.

2. Which of the following is Aristotle’s view of the soul?

a. It is a set of capacities which is not separable from the body.

b. It is simply the mind, a separable entity, which can exist without the body.

c. It is an invisible, non-physical self-mover, which has a better or worse afterlife, depending on the moral quality of its embodied life.

d. It is a non-physical entity, marked by original sin, which depends for its after-life on the possessor’s belief in God and God’s grace.

3. Which of the following is the Christian view of the soul?

a. It is a set of capacities which is not separable from the body.

b. It is simply the mind, a separable entity, which can exist without the body.

c. It is an invisible, non-physical self-mover, which has a better or worse afterlife, depending on the moral quality of its embodied life.

d. It is a non-physical entity, marked by original sin, which depends for its after-life on the possessor’s belief in God and God’s grace.

4. Which of the following is Descartes’ view of the soul?

a. It is a set of capacities which is not separable from the body.

b. It is simply the mind, a separable entity, which can exist without the body.

c. It is an invisible, non-physical self-mover, which has a better or worse afterlife, depending on the moral quality of its embodied life.

d. It is a non-physical entity, marked by original sin, which depends for its after-life on the possessor’s belief in God and God’s grace.

5. Which one of the following philosophers believed that there were three levels of soul: the nutritive soul, the sensitive soul, the rational soul?

a. Plato

b. Aristotle

c. Aquinas

d. Descartes

6. Which of the following is Plato’s view of the virtuous or good soul?

a. It is the rational soul.

b. It is the sensitive soul.

c. It is the nutritive soul.

d. It is the soul that loves knowledge.

7. How does Anselm refer to God?

a. God is all powerful, all knowing, and all good.

b. God is that than which nothing greater can be thought.

c. God is an all perfect being.

d. God is the unmoved mover.

8. What is the name of Anselm’s proof of the existence of God?

a. The cosmological proof.

b. The ontological proof.

c. The proof from efficient cause.

d. The proof from motion.

9. In two of his proofs of the existence of God, Aquinas assumes that a series cannot go on to infinity but must terminate at a first cause or first mover, which he says is God. What is the name of the philosophical fallacy that Aquinas is committing by reasoning in this way?

a. False Cause

b. Hasty Generalization

c. Begging the Question

d. Quantifier Fallacy

10. What two foundations or sources of knowledge does Descartes raise doubts about in the First Meditation?

a. Imagination and sense perception

b. Sense perception and intuition

c. Sense perception and reason

d. Reason and imagination

11. Which is the one thing that Descartes cannot doubt?

a. That an evil demon may be deceiving him

b. That God is good

c. That he exists

d. That he has a mind and a body

12. What is Descartes’ conception or idea of the wax after he has heated it?

a. That it no longer has the same taste, smell, appearance that it had before being heated

b. That it is something extended, flexible, and mutable.

c. That it is capable of innumerable changes

d. That it is simply a body

13. By what capacity does Descartes grasp the nature of the wax after he has heated it?

a. His mind

b. His imagination

c. His perception

d. His intuition

14. Why does Descartes need to prove God’s existence?

a. To eliminate the possibility that God is a deceiver

b. To eliminate the possibility that he is dreaming

c. To eliminate the possibility of an evil demon

d. To eliminate the possibility that his senses are deceiving him

15. In the Sixth Meditation (left hand column, p. 513 of your Reader) Descartes says: “I, who am only a thinking thing, would not sense pain when the body is injured; rather I would perceive the wound by means of the pure intellect, just as a sailor perceives by sight whether anything in his ship is broken.” What is Descartes trying to prove by saying this?

a. That he has a body

b. That he is essentially a mind

c. That he is tightly joined to the body

d. That he can exist without his body