Exam #1 study guide

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Group 1: Ten Test Questions

1.     Whose description of pantheistic ecstasy began with "My life was ecstasy in youth, before I lost any of my senses, I can remember that I was all alive, and inhabited my body with inexpressible satisfaction;"

a.     Henry David Thoreau  

b.     Seneca

c.     William James

d.     Bon Jovi

e.     Bertrand Russell

2.     True or false: Aristotle and Schopenhauer believed that women had more capacity for happiness than men.

a.     False

3.     Who said "real wealth is poverty adjusted to the law of nature?"

a.     Ayn Rand

b.     Donald Trump

c.     Seneca

d.     Sigmund Freud

e.     Karl Marx

4.     What was the title of Pascal's book, which literally means thoughts?

a.     Pensées

b.     Vaginees

c.     Wager of Discontents

d.     On Happiness

e.     The Happiness of Discontents

5.     Aristotle wrote "The educated person seeks exactness in each area to the extent the nature of the subject allows" in what book?

a.     The Republic

b.     Nicomachean Ethics

c.     Metaphysics

d.     Techne of Happiness

e.     On Rhetoric

6.     What philosopher/psychologist suggested that temperament is "organically weighted," which implies (at least in some sense) a physiological explanation for happiness?

a.     Seneca

b.     Lycus

c.     Freud

d.     William James

e.     Bertrand Russell

7.     What was Sigmund Freud’s book on happiness?

a.     The Conquest of Happiness

b.     Civilization and its Discontents.

c.     Nicomachean Ethics

d.     Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

e.     50 Shades of Happiness

8.     What was Bertrand Russell’s book on happiness?

a.     The Conquest of Happiness

b.     Civilization and its Discontents.

c.     Nicomachean Ethics

d.     Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

e.     50 Shades of Happiness

9.     What expression did psychologists Phillip Brinkman and Donald Campbell use to explain how people respond briefly to ups and downs in life and then go back to a neutral state?

a.     The Life Cycle

b.     Hedonic Treadmill

c.     Circular Happiness

d.     The Experience Machine

e.     The State of Nature

10.  Which Greek Merchant spent long hours imagining performances of his favorite tragedies, which everyone misunderstood him for crazy?

a.     Loveus

b.     Lycas

c.     Hateus

d.     Epicurus

e.     Bocephus 

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Group 2 Factual Question Study Guide

1. What philosopher from the Greek island of Kos has an Oath (that graduating doctors take) named after him? Answer: Hippocrates

2. Who invited followers to "live retired" in a garden surrounded by friends, enjoying simple pleasures, but staying away from public?
Answer: Epicurus

3. What is the title of Thoreau's essay and lecture on the subject of walking?
Answer- Walking

4. How did John Stuart Mill's opinions differ from Bentham's?
Answer: Mill felt that Bentham was to narrow minded.

5. Who urged us to wager that God exists because "if you win, you win everything, if you lose, you lose nothing"Answer: Pascal

6. Seneca, the stoic who shared similar views with Aristotle on wealth, once said to his detractors, "I own my _____, yours own you."
Answer: riches

7. Finish the quotation by Stanley Cavell: "The achievement of human happiness requires not the perennial and fuller satisfaction of all needs as they stand but the __________ and ____________ of these needs"
Answer: examination and transformation

8. My factual question would be how many students would try the machine?
Answer: 5%
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8. Who gave us the Experience Machine thought experiment?
Answer: Robert Nozick

9. Kant's stress is on _________ rather than on some unachievable full truth.
Answer: truthfulness

10. The two senses of what term are: extent, range, reach, sweep of perceptions, thoughts, or actions; and freedom, latitude, and leeway?
Answer: scope

(Some questions have been supplemented due to repeats among groups and a lack of questions formed for the final chapter)