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1Early in the Phaedo, the executioner who is to administer the poison to Socrates tells one of Socrates's friends that
- ASocrates should stop talking with his friends because people get heated when they talk, and one should not be heated when taking the poison, as those who do must sometimes drink it two or three times.
- BSocrates was granted a last-minute reprieve from the demos and he is free to leave.
- CHe is willing to allow Socrates to escape if his friends pay him a sizable bribe.
- DHe has run out of hemlock for the poison and they will have to delay his execution until the following spring, when the hemlock is again in bloom.
2What did Protagoras mean when he said "Of all things the measure is humanity . . ."?
- AHe meant that the first units of measurement were set by the length of the human foot.
- BHe meant that human belief, perception, desire, emotion and choice determine the nature of the real and the true.
- CHe meant that human beings have the right to judge or measure one another because ethical truths are absolute and objective.
- DHe meant that before one can decide whether or not truth is subjective or objective, one must first decide how human beings acquire knowledge.
3Which of the following claims would Plato accept?
- AWhat we call learning in this life is really just remembering what we actually came to know in a previous disembodied existence.
- BAll our knowledge of reality is ultimately derived from sense experience.
- CA human being is only a complex arrangement of matter in motion.
- DThere are no absolute, objective truths and values.
4Which of the following is not one of the claims made in Socrates's argument from the Phaedo that a true philosopher should not fear death?
- ASince there is no immaterial soul, upon death the person entirely ceases to exist.
- BDeath is an impediment to the acquisition of wisdom.
- CDeath is the separation of the soul from the body.
- DA true philosopher is a lover of wisdom.
5Which of the following would Plato say is most real?
- Athe form of justice.
- Ba shadow.
- Ca rock.
- Da mountain.
6What are Socrates' final words as reported in Plato's Pheado?
- ACrito, we owe a ---- to Asclepius; make this offering to him and do not forget.
- BI go now to my true home, the realm of the forms.
- CPlease tell Plato of my esteem for his philosophical talents.
- DThe injustice of my punishment is as bitter as the hemlock I now drink.
7Plato's argument from the visible and the invisible in the Phaedo attempts to show that
- AThe soul is imperishable, or very nearly so.
- Bhaving a soul is nothing more than having a specific organization of the parts of the body.
- Cthough the soul can pre-exist the body, there is no reason to believe it will survive the destruction of the body that occurs upon death.
- Dthe soul is rightly classified among those things that are visible.
8Which of the following is not one of the claims Plato makes in his argument for a priori knowledge in the Phaedo?
- AEqual sensible things cannot appear unequal.
- BEquality itself – the concept of equality – can’t appear unequal.
- CThe concept of equality has a property that equal sensible things lack.
- DThe concept of equality was not ultimately acquired from sense experience.
9Which of the following is not one of the claims in Plato's argument from the exclusion of opposites?
- AThe body is essentially alive.
- BA thing that participates in a form essentially cannot admit the opposite form.
- CSnow is essentially cold and thus cannot become hot.
- DThe soul cannot admit the opposite of life (death).
10Which of the following is one of the points Socrates makes in response to Simmias' lyre analogy?
- AThe harmony (or attunement of the lyre) is controlled by the lyre; whereas, the soul governs and controls the body.
- BThe analogy is imperfect because the harmony (or attunement) of the lyre can pre-exist the lyre; however, the soul cannot pre-exist the body.
- CTelling a lie is always wrong, even if one could save one's own life by doing so.
- DThe music produced by a lyre is really produced by the body of the musician who strokes the strings of the instrument.
11Which of the following is not one of the images of pointlessness in the animal kingdom Richard Taylor presents in his essay?
- AA kangaroo carrying its offspring in a pouch.
- BLarval glowworms in a cave in New Zealand that use their luminescent tails to catch and eat insects, but that emerge from the larval state as flies that live for only a day.
- CSpecies of migratory birds that fly travel enormous distances annually and repeat the process year after year.
- D17-year cicadas.
12According to Epicurus, what happens to the human person when the human body dies?
- AAll of the atoms of the human being are dispersed and the person ceases to exist.
- BThe soul passes on to a personal afterlife.
- CThe person is resurrected bodily in a personal afterlife by gods who care deeply about the welfare of human beings.
- DNothing happens to the human person since a human body—like all things—is really a set of ideas existing in the immaterial minds of the gods.
13According to Richard Taylor, heaven--a realm of everlasting and perfect fulfillment--would
- Aonly be available for those who lived perfectly just lives.
- Bbe infinitely boring for human beings.
- Cbe a perfect fit for human nature and thus a source of subjective meaningfulness.
- Dbe the only thing that can make human activity in this life subjectively meaningful.
14At the end of the reading from Camus, Camus observes, "One must imagine Sisyphus ______________."
- Ahappy.
- Bcrushed by the boulder as it rolls back over him.
- Cin heaven.
- Dtaking flight like Daedalus.
15We should not fear death, according to Epicurus, because
- Awe will experience the forms directly since our souls will be freed from our bodies upon death.
- Bwe should not fear that which exists only when we do not.
- Conly once they are liberated from their bodies will our immaterial souls receive their just rewards and punishments; thus, those who have lived justly have nothing to fear.
- Ddeath is but a passage from this world to a more perfect version of this world.
16As an example of cryptomnesia that did not involve hypnosis, scholars commonly point to which of the following?
- ARobert Louis Stevenson inadvertently plagiarizing major parts of Treasure Island.
- BVirginia Tighe's knowledge of Irish Geography.
- CThe Bloxham Tapes.
- DAn agent being able to choose or act otherwise than she or he actually did.
17Which of the following is one of the criticisms of Karma discussed in the reading?
- AIt encourages “blaming the victim” since it maintains that those who suffer misfortunes in their current life are being punished for significant wrongs they committed in a previous life or lives.
- BKarmic justice does not take into account the good things one may have done in a previous life or lives.
- CAll souls are ultimately parts of a "larger" soul; thus, it makes no sense to suppose that one soul be singled out for punishment for some wrong committed in a previous life.
- DWhat we call learning in this life is really just remembering what we actually came to know in a previous, disembodied existence.
18Oscan is
- Athe capital of Kazakhstan.
- Bthe name of the hypnotist who regressed Virginia Tighe.
- Ca language that was last spoken in Western Italy in the 1st Century AD/CE.
- Da 17th Century French philosopher who maintained that the mind is simply the brain.
19Sarah Thomason is
- Aa Professor of Linguistics and the University of Michigan who challenges some of Stevenson's cases of alleged, responsive xenoglossy.
- Bone of the individuals who undergoes hypnotic regression as part of the Bloxham tapes.
- Cone of the past-life identities of Virginia Tighe.
- Dthe hypnotist who put Virginia Tighe through regression and thereby revealed that Tighe had been Bridey Murphy in a previous life.
20Xenoglossy is
- Apossessing knowledge of a language one has not had the opportunity to study in one’s lifetime.
- Ban Ancient Greek philosopher who said, “you can’t step into the same river twice.
- Cfear of foreigners.
- Dan Ancient Greek philosopher who attempted to prove that motion was impossible because covering a finite distance requires crossing an infinite number of spaces.
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- PHIL 2600: Philosophy of Religion Ohio University Dr. James Petrik
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- Maddy F.
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