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Assist with explanations please. DONT just copy. I really need to understand this.HumeAristotleKantDescartesPlato

1. The title, father of modern philosophy, is often give to:

2. Much of the work done at the start of the modern era of philosophy is centered around a debate between:

Humanists and Transhumanists

Naturalists and Nurturers

Rationalists and Empiricists

Occidentals and Easterners

Conservationists and Preservationists

3. Our readings and discussions have painted a picture which associates the thoughts and writings of Plato (especially concerning innate ideas) most with:

Martin Luther King Jr.

Descartes

Hume

Kant

De Beauvoir

4. Conversely, our readings and discussions have painted a picture which associates the thoughts and writings of Aristotle most with:

Martin Luther King Jr.

De Beauvoir

Descartes

Kant

Hume

5. Descartes is described as having the goal of:

None of the answers

Questing for certainty

Conducting science

All of the answers

Seeking compatibility between science and religion

6. Descartes suggests in Meditation I that ___________ can be seen as the very foundation to attack if he is take down the edifice of false beliefs that he has accrued throughout his life so as to arrive at anything he might be able to call certainty.

Religion

Science

None of the answers

The senses

Capitalism

7. Cogito ergo sum is commonly translated as:

Seize the day

Together we stand

Talking makes it so

I think, therefore I am

Philosophy is science

8. The main thrust of Descartes’ Meditations begins with:

Forlorn and Focus

Extension of Inviolable Rights

Systematic doubt

Habituation, Habit, and Habitat

Cleanliness before Godliness

9. Descartes asks whether or not he is sitting by a fire for he might be:

Foretelling a story within a story

Using Orwellian Doublespeak

Dreaming

Lying to the reader

Invoking a Greek myth

10. One of the major philosophical issues that Descartes struggles with is a dualism between the res extensa and res cogitans or:

Life and Death

Right and Wrong

Sight and Seeing

Mind and Body

Good and Evil

11. Descartes suggests that doubting the very act of doubting (or perhaps to say that doubting in the possibility of one’s doubting) is still participating in doubt. This bedrock-like moment is represented by his famous cogito ergo sum. This moment is described as Descartes’:

Archimedean Point

Sum Zero en totem

None of the answers

Altruistic Endeavor

12 ________________ analyzes the nature of knowledge and how it relates to similar notions such as truth, belief, and justification.

Aesthetics

Ethics

Epistemology

Ontology

None of the answers

13. _________________ is the theory that reason rather than experience is the foundation of certainty in knowledge.

Epistemology

Philosophy

All of the answers

Empiricism

Rationalism

14. Descartes suggests that he is given cause to doubt due to his:

All of the answers

Eyes and ears having deceived him in the past

Realization that he might be either dreaming or insane

Teachers having had made mistakes

Realization that there might be an all powerful malicious demon

15. __________________ is the ideology that only one’s own mind is sure to exist. Contenders of this ideology suggest that knowledge of anything outside one’s own mind is unsure, hence there is no such thing as objective truth, and nothing about the external world and its workings can actually be known.

Empiricism

Rationalism

Innatism

None of the answers

Solipsism

16. Descartes’ Trademark Argument, as it has come to be known, describes his system of radical doubt as a process, which leads to his “I am, I exist”.

False

True