You'll earn a point for each correct answer, up to 25. There will be 25 objective format questions drawn from the required texts (Little History of Philosophy, Sick Souls Healthy Minds, Socrates Express), and a few additional BONUS questions drawn from the recommended texts.
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UPDATE, Oct 2. Also take a look at the texts relevant to these Thursday questions:
LHP- What view did Mill defend in On Liberty?
- What scientific developments since Darwin's time establish evolution by natural selection as more than just a theory or hypothesis?
- What's the difference between truth and facts, for WJ?
- For James pragmatism was a protest against what proposition about salvation?
- The greatest use of life is what, according to WJ?
- What does WJ say is the difference between resignation and hope?
You can ask John himself about these, after the Lyceum Friday.
Remember to come and mark the scorecard.
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UPDATE, September 30. STUDY GUIDE-
Most of Tuesday's exam will be based on the following questions. I'll update the Study Guide after tomorrow's class.
LHP-
What kind of conversation was a success, for Socrates, and what did he mean by wisdom?
What theory is Plato's story of the cave connected with? What was his name for a perfect exemplar of anything (such as a circle)?What is eudaimonia, and how can we increase our chances of achieving it, and in relation only to what? Do you think you've achieved it?
How is the modern meaning of "epicurean" different from Epicurus's?
What does Boethius not mention about himself in The Consolation of Philosophy?
What uniquely self-validating idea did Anselm say we have?
Life outside society would be what, according to Hobbes? Do you think your neighbors would threaten your survival if they could get away with it?
Did Descartes claim to know (at the outset of his "meditations") that he was not dreaming? Do you ever think you might be?
Pascal thought if you gamble on God and lose, "you lose ______." Do you agree?
If god is _____, said Spinoza, there cannot be anything that is not god; if _____, god is indifferent to human beings.
According to John Locke, all our knowledge comes from _____; hence, the mind of a newborn is a ______.
What was Berkeley's Latin slogan?
What English poet declared that "whatever is, is right," and what German philosopher (with his "Principle of Sufficient Reason") agreed with the poet?
Rousseau said we're born free but everywhere are in ____, but can liberate ourselves by submitting to what is best for the whole community, aka the _______.
What was Kant's great insight?
What "blind driving force" did Schopenhauer allege to pervade absolutely everything (including
Weiner-
The Socratic dialogues consisted of what kinds of conversations?
What inscription greeted visitors to Epicurus's compound? And Plato's Academy?
Which American founding father declared "I too am an Epicurean"?
What was Montaigne's experience of his equestrian accident?
Kaag thinks the Civil War gave WJ his first intimation that what?
What did WJ say (in 1906, to H.G. Wells) about "SUCCESS"?
What did Aristotle say about habit?
What kind of listening mattered most to Schopenhauer?
Weiner thinks Schopenhauer's Will made manifest in our time is what?
SSHM-
[Prologue] What is distinctive about "our age" that makes James particularly relevant?
What was Renouvier's definition of free will?
What experience led James to "the taste of the intolerable mysteriousness" of existence?
What did Thoreau say at the end of Walden?
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P.S. To whom it may concern (you know who you are), and as I keep saying:
Please stop emailing to tell me you won't be in class.
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