Philosophy 6 name that philosopher
Which philosopher claimed that, in order for us to live ethically, we must assume the Ethics of Ambiguity rather than try to flee it?
Beauvoir
Which philosopher claimed, "It is good that fear and superstition have largely been replaced by knowledge, but we would be on safer ground today if the knowledge had been accompanied by humility instead of arrogance"?
Carson
Which philosopher declared, "Instead of always trying to impose our will on Nature we should sometimes be quiet and listen to what she has to tell us. If we did so I am sure we would gain a new perspective on our own feverish lives"?
Carson
Which of the following philosophers promoted Amor Fati?
none of the above. nietzsche
Which philosopher declared that "Man has long talked somewhat arrogantly about the conquest of nature; now he has the power to achieve his boast. It is our misfortune—it may well be our final tragedy—that this power has not been tempered with wisdom, but has been marked by irresponsibility; that there is all too little awareness that man is part of nature, and that the price of conquest may well be the destruction of man himself"?
Carson
Which of the following philosophers claimed, "My longing then was to love and to be loved, but most when I obtained the enjoyment of the body of the person who loved me. Thus I polluted the stream of friendship with the filth of unclean desire and sullied its limpidity with the hell of lust"?
Augustine
Which of the following philosophers warned that "there is an appeal to the eye in beautiful things, in gold and silver and all such; the sense of touch has its own powerful pleasures; and the other senses find qualities in things suited to them"?
Augustine
Which philosopher claimed that we act ethically only insofar as we accept the weight of our choices and the consequences and responsibilities of our fundamental, ontological freedom?
Beauvoir
Which philosopher described Double Consciousness as the internal conflict experienced by subordinated groups in an oppressive society?
DuBois
Which philosopher wrote, "the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others"?
DuBois
Which of the following philosophers claimed that it is better to die of hunger with distress and fear gone than to live upset in the midst of plenty?
Epictetus
Which of the following philosophers claimed that your life will go well if you seek to want events to happen as they do happen?
Epictetus
Which of the following philosophers warned that what upsets people is not things themselves but judgments about things?
Epictetus
Which of the following philosophers believed that the ultimate goal is to reach Aponia and Ataraxia?
Epicurus
Which of the following philosophers claimed, "When we say, then, that pleasure is the end and aim, we do not mean the pleasures of the prodigal or the pleasures of sensuality, as we are understood to do by some through ignorance, prejudice, or willful misrepresentation. By pleasure we mean the absence of pain in the body and of trouble in the soul"?
Epicurus
Which of the following philosophers proclaimed, "Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness"?
Epicurus
Which philosopher claimed that private property is the "product, result, and necessary consequence of externalized labor, of the external relation of the worker to nature and to himself"?
Marx
Which philosopher thought that modern man "feels that he is acting freely only in his animal functions -- eating, drinking, and procreating, or at most in his shelter and finery -- while in his human functions he feels only like an animal"?
Marx
Which philosopher proclaimed that "the secret to reaping the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment from existence is to live dangerously"?
Nietzsche
Which philosopher is associated with an Ethic of Care?
Noddings
Which philosopher wrote, "When we care, we should, ideally, be able to present reasons for our action/inaction which would persuade a reasonable, disinterested observer that we have acted in behalf of the care-for"?
Noddings
Which of the following philosophers supposedly said, "I think there is no greater blessing for the city than my service to the god. For I go around doing nothing but persuading both the young and old among you not to care for your body or your wealth in preference to or as strongly as for the best possible state of your soul" (translations can vary some)?
Socrates
Which of the following philosophers supposedly said, "It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury, it is much more difficult to avoid unrighteousness."
Socrates