Philosophy A Text With Readings 11th Edition By Manuel Velasquez -Test Bank

Chapter 9—Postscript: The Meaning of Life

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. Who claimed that “the one serious question in philosophy” is that of whether life has meaning?
a. Camus
b. Sartre
c. Heidegger
d. Plato

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2. Rudolf Carnap endorsed:
a. Pragmatism
b. Idealism
c. Antirealism
d. Logical positivism

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3. One proponent of the theistic response to the question of whether life has meaning is
a. Sartre
b. Heidegger
c. Aquinas
d. Aristotle

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4. Kai Nielsen claims that
a. The theistic response makes an illogical jump.
b. The theistic response is correct
c. The theistic responses affirms the consequent
d. The theistic response needs modification only

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5. What did Hegel argue?
a. That history was bunk
b. That history was irrelevant to philosophy
c. That history shows progress
d. That those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it.

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6. Marx held that progress was
a. Illusory
b. Necessary
c. Economic
d. Social

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7. For Francis Fukuyama,
a. History of progressing more rapidly
b. The price if progress has risen
c. History is no longer progressing
d. The end of the world is near

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8. Richard Taylor argues for the view that
a. Life has no meaning
b. History is progressing
c. History is over
d. Life has meaning

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9. The view that there is no larger whole or part to which we can contribute is
a. Communism
b. Virtue ethics
c. Socialism
d. Nihilism

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10. Sartre was
a. A theist
b. An agnostic
c. An atheist
d. A monotheist

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