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PHIL OLIVER (ACTUAL / ) EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND
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What happened in Daytona, TN in the summer of 1925 , and what did Clarence Darrow think about "what Tennessee has done"? - ___Answers>>>Monkey trial. TN had plain religious ignorance and bigotry that justified the hanging of witches in New England.
What was the culture impact for each side of the Scopes trial?
- ___Answers>>>Each side was confirmed in its beliefs
According to Epicurus, fear of death is based on what and the best way to live is what? - ___Answers>>>Bad logic. Simple lifestyle and be kind
How is the modern meaning of "epicurean" different from Epicurus? - ___Answers>>>Epicureans are now people who live lavish in luxuries Epicurus's is the opposite of that
What famous 20th century philosopher echoed Epicurus's attitude towards death? - ___Answers>>>Ludwig Wittgenstien
How did Epicurus respond to the idea of divine punishment in the afterlife? - ___Answers>>>Gods are doing their own thing and not worrying about us 1 / 3
What was the Stoics basic idea, and what was their aim? - ___Answers>>>Only worry about the things we can change, forget about the things we can't. Aimed for a calm state of mind.
Why did Cicero think we shouldn't worry about dying? - ___Answers>>>He believed the soul will live forever.
Why didn't Seneca consider life too short? - ___Answers>>>Problem isn't how short our lives are, but how badly we spend the time we do have.
What does the author say might be the cost of stoicism? - ___Answers>>>We become cold, heartless, and less human.Spock from Star Trek.
One writer of the Book of Progress linked the effect of a motion picture to the effect of what? - ___Answers>>>Magic of childhood
Newspapers and magazines are the first foundations of what?
- ___Answers>>>Modern celebrity
What two fantasies did the suburb satisfy? - ___Answers>>>Nostalgia for the Green Republic. Nostalgia for the white people, making them fell like they're living during a time where there were only white people around. 2 / 3
What 2 locations are described as invented paradises? - ___Answers>>>Miami and Palm Beach
How did Augustine solve the problem of evil in his younger days, and then after his conversion to Christianity? Why was it such a problem for him originally? - ___Answers>>>He thought God was not supremely powerful in his younger days; after his conversion, he though God was all powerful.
What does Boethius not mention about himself in the consolation of philosophy? - ___Answers>>>He was Christian
Boethius recollection of ideas can be traced back to which philosopher? - ___Answers>>>Plato
What unique self-validating idea did Anselm say we have? - ___Answers>>>We have an idea of God and God is the most perfect thing, therefore God is better than our imagined view
Gaunilo criticized Anselm's reasoning using what example? - ___Answers>>>Using the most perfect island; you can't conjure a perfect island into existence
What was Aquinas 2nd way? - ___Answers>>>There had to be a first cause of the universe
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