Phil101 Test 1 UD Rogers Latest Update 2025- 2026 Actual Exam 140 Questions with 100% Verified Correct Answers with Guaranteed A+ Verified by Professor
"Might is right" - CORRECT ANSWER: Thrasymachus quote
• A key question in Political Philosophy: What justifies the authority of the government?That is, why do the rulers get to do stuff that us private citizens don't? plato's answer: -
CORRECT ANSWER: the Philosopher-King is the best and has gazed upon the Form of
the Good
• A moved mover can be thought of as a "motion mirror". It can pass the motion (change) along, once it's got it. But a series of moved movers, even an infinite series,
cannot ... - CORRECT ANSWER: ...explain where the motion comes from. You need a
source of motion
• Aristotle's ethics are__since tehy apply to all human beings - CORRECT ANSWER: aritstotle's ____ are universal
• Epistomology - CORRECT ANSWER: • Epistomology: you know things you did not learn through your senses
- 2+2=4
- It's wrong to torture small children for fun.
- A cat is a cat, and I know one when I see one.
- Why can't you get this info through your senses?
- Sense give us info on particulars 1 / 3
• Senses have a role of knowledge acquisition
*Your senses have access only to changeable things, so they cannot give you immutable truth.
• In at least one text Aristotle suggests that the active intellect is separate from the body, and survives the death of the body. HOWEVER • ...He also says that this active intellect is one and the same for ALL of us! so -
CORRECT ANSWER: ... maybe some of the thinking part survives...and
preexisted?...but it may not be an aspect of you as an individual
• Objects composed of little particles (of earth, fire, water, air) that are eternal and unchanging
o Mingling of these particles makes what we see - CORRECT ANSWER: Empedocles'
says objects are composed of ______
• Polity - CORRECT ANSWER: law-abiding democracy...and it's possible. (it's actually the best IF all the citizens are well-educated in the business of governing and they take turns governing)
• Skepticism: - CORRECT ANSWER: You should doubt (a few, some, many, all) of the claims people make.
• The Anthropological Argument - CORRECT ANSWER: o Premise: Different societies believe in different values.
o Conclusion: Therefore there are no objective values.
• The Life of the Philosopher - CORRECT ANSWER: He gazes upon the Form of the
Good, but then feels the charitable desire to help his fellow troglodytes (cave dwellers
• Two problems with the Anthropological Argument. - CORRECT ANSWER: • 1. It's not clear that the premise is true. 2 / 3
• 2. Even if the premise is true, the conclusion doesn't follow. (It is a non sequitur.) Just because people happen to believe differently doesn't mean there's no truth. E.g. the shape of the earth.
- aspects of intellect involved in abstraction - CORRECT ANSWER: passive (receives
data from senses) active (does work to produce form in the intellect)
according to aristotle Ultimately best activity is - CORRECT ANSWER: • Contemplation of the best thing, the Unmoved Mover
according to aristotle Ultimately best activity is - CORRECT ANSWER: • Contemplation of the best thing, the Unmoved Mover
according to aristotle, The purpose of human existence - CORRECT ANSWER:
happiness...actualizing your nature...flourishing as a human being (i.e. pursuing your finalcause). "Natural Law" ethics.
according to plato, Things in our worlds exist and are as they are because - CORRECT
ANSWER: they participate in the Forms
Anaxagoras Major contributions - CORRECT ANSWER: o First great contribution: form, nature, essence recognition
- mind separate from matter (Mind is different form and transcends matter )
Anixamenes ____ underlying - CORRECT ANSWER: Says air is underlying
Aristocracy - CORRECT ANSWER: • In the literal sense of Rule by the Best.
• The Philosopher and his intellectual buddies know best, so they get to run things.• Not hereditary! Children go into the class for which they are naturally suited.
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