Epicurus Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Part One: Chapter One: The Nature of Morality Multiple Choice (24) 1. Ethics addresses the question of a. whether God exists b. what we know c. how we should live d. what we are 2. Ethics does not investigate questions of a. duty and obligation b. mind and body c. fairness and unfairness d. good and bad 3. Business ethics is the study of what constitutes good and bad human conduct in a a. business setting b. academic setting c. heavenly setting d. utopian setting 4. Who discussed whe...

According to Epicurus, which desires may be occasionally satisfied when doing so does not lead to discomfort or pain? correct answer: desires that are natural but not necessary According to Aristotle, human happiness consists of: correct answer: pleasure Which of the following ideas was central to Thomas Hobbes's philosophy of values? correct answer: Good and evil simply denote that which a person desires or hates. Which of the following is considered a moral evil by Plato? correc...

The Dark ages - ANSWERThe early middle ages were known as... Anubis - ANSWERGod of Embalming Chepera (Khephra, Keper) - ANSWERThe Egyptian word for "scarab beetle" The Children of Horus - ANSWERHapi, Mestha, Qebhsennuf, and Taumautef Horus - ANSWER"The Avenger of His Father"; killed his uncle Set Isis - ANSWERPerhaps the most important goddess of all Egyptian mythology; wife of Osiris; helped Osiris to return to life, and assisted him to rule the land of the dead Ma'at - A...

The Canterbury Tales Test Review 2024 During which month do the pilgrims set off on this pilgrimage to Canterbury? April How many pilgrims, excluding the narrator, are gathered at the beginning of "The Prologue"? 29 pilgrims What is the name of the inn in which the pilgrims are gathered? The Tabard Inn Where is the inn, where the pilgrims are gathered located? Southwark Whose shrine are the pilgrims preparing to visit? St. Thomas a Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury Who was murder...

The Canterbury Tales Test Review 2023 During which month do the pilgrims set off on this pilgrimage to Canterbury? April How many pilgrims, excluding the narrator, are gathered at the beginning of "The Prologue"? 29 pilgrims What is the name of the inn in which the pilgrims are gathered? The Tabard Inn Where is the inn, where the pilgrims are gathered located? Southwark Whose shrine are the pilgrims preparing to visit? St. Thomas a Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury Who was murder...

Ethics 205: Final Quiz 2021 Questions&Answers If something is intrinsically valuable, then it must Correct answer- Be valuable for its own sake According to hedonism, the key ingredient to a good life is Correct answer- Happiness An example of attitudinal pleasure would be the Correct answer- enjoyment of listening to your favorite song The first great hedonist in Western philosophy was Correct answer- Epicurus According to hedonism Correct answer- -there are many di...

Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales 2023 journey to a sacred place, usually religious in nature pilgrimage story in which other narratives are told frame story a work that makes fun of something or someone satire visible forms of the feudal system knights and chivalry None political rights of women expectations of medieval women raise children and tend to house and farm Black Death or bubonic plague spread by the fleas of infested rats lower class, middle class, upper-middle class ...

Multiple Choice 1. Events following the death of Aristotle created a situation in which people sought: a. b. c. d. ANSWER: DIFFICULTY: REFERENCES: 2. The main target of skepticism was dogmatism. A dogmatist is anyone who: ANSWER: DIFFICULTY: REFERENCES: d conceptual After Aristotle d factual After Aristotle 5. What did a. b. c. d. ANSWER: DIFFICULTY: REFERENCES: answers to questions concerning problems of everyday living the first principles or universals that underlie physical rea...

The Canterbury Tales Test Review 2023 During which month do the pilgrims set off on this pilgrimage to Canterbury? April How many pilgrims, excluding the narrator, are gathered at the beginning of "The Prologue"? 29 pilgrims What is the name of the inn in which the pilgrims are gathered? The Tabard Inn Where is the inn, where the pilgrims are gathered located? Southwark Whose shrine are the pilgrims preparing to visit? St. Thomas a Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury Who was murder...

Chapter 2: The Presocratic Sophos Questions and Answers 2023 sophos Sage or wise man; term applied to the first philosophers; from the Greek word for "wise" monism The general name for the belief that everything consists of only one, ultimate, unique substance such as matter or spirit. rational discourse The interplay of carefully argued ideas; the use of reason to order, clarify, and identify reality and truth according to agreed-upon standards of verification. princi...