Exam 2 study guide

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Lenoir 13-15 (Other People; Contagious happiness)... Remember to do today's report quiz as well

1. What is it about the question "Are you happy?" that makes Lenoir uneasy?

2. What happens to most people after confronting serious illness or a career setback OR a positive improvement in life circumstances?

3. What is the "age effect"?

4. What forms of love did Aristotle not distinguish?

5. Happiness, like health, is a ______ phenomenon.

6. Lenoir's example of contagious, shared rapture is what?

1. Who said he was most at home with earthly happiness?

2. What does Lenoir see as the main difference between ancient and contemporary quests for happiness?

3. What are the novels of Michel Houellebecq about?

4. What obsession thwarts happiness?

5. Depression is allegedly symptomatic of what?

6. What adaptive quality may be our greatest obstacle to happiness?

1. What did Aristophanes promote as synonymous to the pursuit of happiness?

2. Was the initial Greek view of life more optimistic or pessimistic?

3. Is a Utopian society possible?

4. What did Hegel believe was the balm to unhappiness?

5. Who quite famously stated, "God is dead"?

6. What did Darwin view as the separation of man and beast?

1. How do Epictetus and Shantideva agree?

2. The first principle of non-satisfaction involves what admission?

3. What is samsara?

4. What did Stoics invent?

5. What do Chuang Tzu and Montaigne have in common?

6. Give an example of a Taoist paradox.

Oct 12, ch21 & epilog

1. Spinoza's symbol of continuity was what?

2. From what "cruel illusion" did Spinoza want to free us?

3. For Spinoza there's nothing more absurd than what?

4. What is the role of reason in securing happiness, for Spinoza?

5. Beyond eliminating obstacles, what must we do to be happy?

6. What are two ways of viewing "joy"?

Happiness playlist quiz-

1. What sections were the playlist broken into?

2. Which songs were placed onto the playlist to represent a failure in that section?

3. Which song did I claim represented someone who "won the game of life"?

4. Which song was, by title, on there twice and why were they on there?

5. Which song did I say was an unofficial inclusion that should have been official?

6. Which two songs were on there by mandate of the prompt?

1.     As a person living in the West, do you relate to the Eastern views of happiness or western more?

2.     What practices do YOU partake in to be happy? Do you find yourself searching within or without?

3.     What is the differences in views between western and eastern views?

4.     Which “side” would be more inclined to value collectiveness or individualism?

5.     What are two steps to practice meditation?

1. David Hume's "really great" anti-Cartesian idea about the self, says Alison Gopnik, is that it does not require what?

2. Like Hume, Gopnik says, she found her salvation where?

3. Hume's _____ (mitigated, exaggerated) skepticism aimed to counter the "overconfidence and dogmatism [that] led to intolerance, to faction, to a lot of the crimes of human history."

4. What is Hume's "pragmatic insight" about reason, the passions, and action, as summarized in his credo "be a philosopher, but... be still a man" and implied by his suggestion that "reason is always the slave of the passions"?

5. Hume's essays on happiness include the perspectives of a stoic, an epicurean, a platonist, and a what?

6. Hume believes that_____ is the medicine of the mind, an antidote to the miseries caused by superstition and false religion.

Happy poems quiz-

1. In Sandburg's poem, who are the first set of people to be asked the meaning of happiness?
2. Did these people have the answer to happiness?
3. The author found happiness in the midst of?
4. Mention to set of people that happiness comes to, according to Jane Kenyon.
5. According to Kenyon, it is possible to find happiness in lifeless objects. true or false?
6. What month of the year was described in Paston's poem?

1. What is Nietzsche's happiness "formula"?

2. What does Nietzsche consider "the most vicious outrage upon noble humanity," one of the "chief weapons... against our happiness"?

3. What is "the greatest weight"?

4. How do "free spirits" feel about the "death of God"?

5. What is the greatest happiness of "genius"?

6. What is the "dream of the mountain climber"?

1. Why was Sisyphus condemned to roll his rock?

2. What did Homer say Sisyphus had conquered?

3. Why must we imagine Sisyphus happy, according to Camus?