PHIL 101 Quiz 3/4

Who thought it was impossible to totalize everything that exists; that what exists is infinite?

Jacques Derrida

Michel Foucault

Martin Heidegger

Alain Badiou

Which is not a theme an existentialist would be likely to accept?

Metaphysics can reveal the reason and purpose of life.

Life is meaningless and irrational.

Most people live dull, limited and unfulfilling lives.

Each individual is alone in the world.

Who made the study of multiplicity the centerpiece of his thought?

Michel Foucault

Ferdinand de Saussure

Jürgen Habermas

Gilles Deleuze

Who searched for a group of rules that accounts for the social complexities of even so-called primitive cultures?

Jacques Derrida

Michel Foucault

Martin Heidegger

Claude Levi-Strauss

How can we give life purpose in a purposeless world, according to Camus?

Kill yourself.

Seek God.

Rebel against the absurd.

It can't be done.

What would Jacques Derrida say about the essential meaning of a text?

It means whatever the author intended for it to mean.

It means whatever the reader understands it to mean.

It means whatever the majority of experts take it to mean.

A trick question, since he rejects the whole notion of essential meaning.

For Nietzsche, who or what is the source of ethical truth?

God

The Superman

The ruler of a state

Slaves

Which desires did Epicureans say you should occasionally satisfy?

Those that are both natural and necessary.

Those that are natural but not necessary.

Those that are neither natural nor necessary.

All of the above.

How is goodness apprehended, according to Plato?

By the senses.

Through the emotions.

By reason.

By mystical vision.

In what does human happiness consist, according to Aristotle?

Pleasure.

Intellectual virtue.

Moral virtue.

All of the above.

In terms of what did G. E. Moore define goodness?

Pleasure.

Power.

Personal affection and aesthetic enjoyment.

Tricky! He claimed that it can't be defined.

Which of the following is the political philosophy based on respect for established institutions and traditions?

Conservatism

Communism

Facism

Socialism

What is the name of the influential publication by John Rawls?

Killing and Starving to Death

Anarchy, State, and Utopia

A Theory of Justice

After Virtue

What do moral judgments do, according to the emotivists?

Guide conduct.

Assert facts.

Express emotion and encourage others to feel the same way.

Create value.

What is one reason feminist epistemologists are suspicious of the concept of the ideal knower as dispassionate, objective, and purely rational?

These qualities are of no value in the pursuit of knowledge and truth.

Too many real people are like that, and they don't know much.

Even supposedly objective scientists are influenced by their own prejudices and biases.

They aren't suspicious of this concept at all.

Which of the following is not a characteristic of the "Third Wave" of feminism?

Rejects binary distinctions between men and women

Rejects "sex positive" philosophies

Supports transsexuals

Includes conflicting strands of theory

According to Julia Kristeva

The female semiotic has been devalued.

Feminine signification has been marginalized because it threatens the traditionally masculinist symbolic discourse.

Religious discourse can create a healing space between symbolic and semiotic.

All of the above.

According to Mary Wollstonecraft, which of the following virtues should be cultivated in women as well as men?

Docility

Dependence

Wisdom

Sensitivity

Which of the following developed what she called "maternal thinking"?

Nel Noddings

Carol Gilligan

Nancy Chodorow

Sara Ruddick

Who wrote: "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman"?

Mary Wollstonecraft

Simone de Beauvoir

Jacques Lacan

Luce Irigaray

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