Exam 3: 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 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. In Book I of his Treatise on Human Nature, Hume rejects which one of the following ideas?:

a. That there is a necessary connection between cause and effect

b. That God exists

c. That we have an idea of a self or mind

d. That all of our ideas derive from our impressions

2. According to Hume (p. 66 of our Reader), what do I actually find when I look into “what I call myself”?

a. A soul or mind

b. Something he knows not what

c. The idea of God

d. A succession of resembling and causally related perceptions of objects

3. When Hume says (p. 66- 67 of our Reader) that his comparison of the mind to a theater should “ not mislead us,” in what way is he thinking that the comparison might mislead us?

a. We might think that the mind is an entity of some sort.

b. We might think that our perceptions (or features of our perceptions) cause us to think of the self as an entity

c. We might think that our perceptions are caused by external objects

d. We might think that external objects are nothing but bundles of perceptions

4. According to Hume where do our ideas come from?

a. Perception

b. Imagination

c. Reason

d. Intuition

5. Why does Hume think the idea of an enduring self or mind is a meaningless idea?

a. He can find no rational support for the idea

b. It is possible that there is no enduring self

c. There is no impression that can give rise to the idea of an enduring self

d. There is no necessary connection between our successive perceptions

6. In Hume’s view, what leads us to think of ourselves as an enduring self?

a. Memory and imagination

b. The easy transition in us from one perception to another

c. The fact that people remember their past experiences

d. The fact that we are just a bundle of perceptions

7. According to Hume, what two features of our perception of objects produce the easy transition of the mind that we mistake for the idea of continuously existing self?

a. Memory and Imagination

b. Sensation and reflection

c. The resemblance between our perceptions of objects and the causal relations between these perceptions

d. The influence of reason and rational deliberation on our perceptions

8. In Refutation of Idealism what is Kant trying to prove?

a. The existence of an enduring self

b. The existence of objects in space

c. The reliability of our sense perception

d. That we are not dreaming

9. In the First Section of Kant’s Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals (p. 74 of your reader), Kant says that the good will is the only thing that is good without qualification? How does he support this claim?

a. By saying that the good will makes other good things useful

b. By saying that the good will makes free will possible

c. By saying that without a good will other qualities, like courage, can be harmful

d. By saying that without a good will rational action is not possible

10. For Kant, what does it mean to say that the good will is the only thing that is good without qualification?

a. It means that a good will is a free will

b. It means that a good will is good under all conditions

c. It means that a good will wills independently of our desires

d. It means that the good will wills on the basis of the Categorical Imperative

11. For Kant, is a good will good because of what it brings about?

a. Yes

b. No

12. What makes the good will good?

a. It is good because it wills on the basis of duty

b. It is good because it wills on the basis desire

c. It is good because of what it brings about

d. It is good because it makes free will possible

13. For Kant, what does it mean to act on the basis of duty?

a. It means to act on the basis of desire

b. It means to act on the basis of reason

c. It means to act in conformity with the Categorical Imperative

d. It means to act in conformity with practical reason

14. What is a morally indifferent act

a. Morally indifferent acts are ones that are wrong.

b. Morally indifferent acts are ones that are right.

c. Morally indifferent acts are ones that are sometimes wrong and sometimes right.

d. Morally indifferent acts are ones that are neither wrong nor right.

15. According to Kant, if one acts on the basis of duty, that is, in conformity with the CI test, is it possible to get pleasure from our action?

a. Yes

b. No