2. © 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

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

4. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Metaphysics Back

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

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

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

8. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 Epistemology Back

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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20. $400 According to Aristotle, how do we determine the correct way to act?

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

22. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 For Plato, what should the escaped prisoner do once he escapes from the cave?

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

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

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

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

27. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 Ethical Absolutism Back

28. © 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

42. © 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?

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

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

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

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

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

48. © 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?

49. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 Teleology Back

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

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

52. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 How did Kant say we come to understand things like causality, being, etc.?

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

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

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

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

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

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

59. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 Socrates Back

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

61. © 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

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

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

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

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

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