Descartes Quiz
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The Human Event Quiz
Fette Descartes Quiz
Name_____________________
Score: ___/10
1. First philosophy and second philosophy are ___.
a. metaphysics and science (such as physics) b. ethics and the sciences (physics) c. existentialism and rationalism d. rationalism and empiricism
2. An example of a substance and its accidents is ____. a. the mind and its thoughts b. a ball of wax and its colors, smells, and tastes
c. beer and its bottle, label, and cap
d. a and b 3. True or false: Descartes’ motivation in the Meditations
is to prove the existence of God and that the soul is immortal ___. a. true
b. false
4. Why should we never believe the information we receive from the senses ___.
a. they have deceived us once and they will again! b. they give us information about corporeal (material) entities whose very existence we can always doubt
c. they are connected to the body – a part of us d. a, b, and c that is not really even essential to what we are
5. It only seems easier to understand the nature of bodies than it is to understand the mind, but the opposite is true, for Descartes, since __. a. we cannot get clear and distinct ideas about bodies b. our senses and imagination give us faulty or incomplete data about bodies
c. we cannot doubt the existence of our mind
d. a, b, and c
6. True or false: According to Descartes, he is not writing his Meditations
for those who believe in God, since they already have faith in what the Bible and their priests say; he is aiming his work at atheists who disbelieve and use reason
to back up their arguments about religion. a. true
b. false
The Human Event Quiz
Fette 7. The only thing that Descartes is certain of in Meds 1-2 is ___.
a. God exists, even if he pretends an evil genius deceives him
b. he thinks and therefore exists c. the power of imagination is better suited than judgment
d. all of the above
when seeking to find truth 8. What separates the human mind from the animals is that when a ball of wax melts and all of its external accidents change, the human knows it to be the piece of wax – through the understanding and judgment – while animals rely on the senses and imagination and thus will think that the melted wax is totally different from the fresh ball of wax. a. true
b. false
9. In order to strip away all his prior beliefs and things he accepted as true knowledge, Descartes__.
a. turns to the Bible to find the word of God
b. systematically doubts everything doubtable c. prays and meditates for God to answer him d. relies on his creative faculty of imagination 10. True or false: Descartes espouses the power of dreams because they can tell us so much about our unconscious selves. a. true b. false
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