© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved Meta- what?? Those Greek Bastards To Torture or not to Torture? I Think, Therefore I am Confused Don’t Touch my Ding an Sich! Potpourri $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 Final Jeopardy

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 “What is the nature of ultimate reality?”

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 “What ought I do?”

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 “Are there limits to man’s knowledge?”

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 Rationalism

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 Epistemology Back

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 “Does God exist?”

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 Metaphysics Back

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 According to Plato’s allegory of the cave, what do the chains represent?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Our senses Back

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What axiology does Socrates embrace?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 “To know the good is to do the good” Back

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 What metaphysical concept does Aristotle use to describe substances as a combination of matter and form?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 Hylomorphic composition Back

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$400 According to Aristotle, how do we determine the correct way to act?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 Find the “golden mean” Back

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 Go back into the cave and educate the remaining prisoners. Back

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Deontological ethics state that you should act a certain way based on what?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Duty or Virtue—NOT based on consequences Back

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 Name the ethical system that claims “right” and “wrong” are universal and immutable.

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 Name one of the philosophers we discussed who agreed with the pilot’s actions in the Cold Equations.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 Aristotle (the mean) Kant (the categorical imperative) Aristotle (the mean) Kant (the categorical imperative) Back

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What ethical system advocates self-interest as the guiding factor in moral decision-making?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 Egoism Back

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 What name did Kant give to his ethical rule calling for the universalization and rationalization of morality?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 The Categorical Imperative Back

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Why did Descartes necessarily need to prove the existence of God?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 To prove that things outside of himself existed. Back

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What epistemological approach did Descartes champion?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 Rationalism. Back

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 What did Descartes try to prove in his example of the piece of wax?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 That our senses cannot truly tell us anything—our mind is superior. Back

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 According to Hume, if we take empiricism to a radical extreme, what conclusion must we come to?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 That we can never really know anything. Back

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 According to Hume, why do we think we know that the sun will rise tomorrow, or that one billiard ball causes another one to move?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 Out of belief or habit Back

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Describe the dualism advocated by Descartes.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Mind-body (or metaphysical) dualism. Back

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 This philosophical approach claims that “existence precedes essence” and “man is the measure of all things.”

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 Existentialism Back

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 Aristotle believed that everything had an ultimate end or purpose. What word describes the potentiality that Aristotle believed in?

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 How did Descartes prove that God exists?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 The idea of a perfect God could only originate from a perfect God. Back

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 Through our a priori concepts. Back

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 What name describes Descartes idea of discarding all knowledge that can be doubted?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Systematic Doubt Back

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 Who said “Cogito Ergo Sum” (or “je pense, donc je suis”)?

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 Who said “the unexamined life is not worth living”?

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What is the “Kantian Turn” in philosophy?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 The idea that we cannot know true reality Or Phenominalism The idea that we cannot know true reality Or Phenominalism Back

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 What epistemological approach did Hume’s predecessors establish, especially John Lock with his idea of “Tabula Rasa”?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 Empricism Back

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved Confusion Final Jeopary Question

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved Describe Kant’s Categorical Imperative.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved “Act as if the maxim from which you act were to become through your will a general law.”