1. According to Plato, the soul is composed of three parts: Reason or Rational, Appetite, and;
2. Each part of the soul; according to Plato, represents a part of society or classes of people. The
rulers corresponded to reason; the guardians corresponded to the spirit, and
3. Regardless of what is perceived to be accomplished, it anticipates that the ____ ____ will meet
its goals.
4. The theory that humans are actors that play different roles for different audiences with different
resources to reach their purpose or goal in the most effective manner is called the:
5. Assuming the presence of two audiences; a speaker makes an ironic statement, directing it at
one groups of people; the superficial audience, but is really directing her remarks to a second
audience which is the real audience. This is called;
6. The theory that at least some human knowledge comes from reason unaided by our five senses
and we can know more than what the senses will allow is called;
7. Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that studies,
8. The Color Line; according to the text book is the problem of;
9. To be of a particular minority in this country is always to be de-centered, to be both inside
oneself as all persons are, but also outside oneself, seeing oneself as others see one—
experiencing oneself in stereotypical ways, not as W.E.B. DeBois, but as a minority. This is
DuBois’ phenomenology of the;
10. Cosmological speculation goes on today, as it did 2,500 years ago. From the earliest times,
philosophers have been actively involved in the experimental and theoretical advances of what
today we call;
11. ____ is the study of how we come to know things, what the limits of our knowledge, and what
sort of certainty or uncertainty attaches to our knowledge.
12. Despite the fact that Philosophy is largely the product of “____ ____ ____”—to use a phrase
that has achieved a certain popularity lately—this tradition presents itself as the philosophical
tradition of Western civilization.
13. In spite of the fact that the Western Philosophical tradition presents itself as it does, the voices
of ____ and ____ of ____ are scarcely ever heard.
14. One of the most interesting philosophers of any color to ever live and write in this country is;
15. ____ is the branch of philosophy that considers the nature, criteria, sources, logic, and validity
of moral value judgments.
16. Ethics answers the question, “__________?” What are we to do in any situation where our
moral righteousness is concerned?
17. ____ are defined as pertaining to, or concerned with the principles of right conduct or the
distinction between right and wrong principles of right conduct.
18. Social Philosophy is the branch of philosophy that studies the social institutions that make up
the ____ ____ of society.
19. ____ is the philosophical study of art and of value judgments about art and of beauty in general.
20. Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the most,
21. Logic is the branch of philosophy that studies the methods, principles, and criteria of;
22. Political Philosophy is the branch of philosophy that focuses on one social institution—the
____, and seeks to determine its justification and ethically proper organization.
23. To behave in a manner one believes he or she is being instructed or commanded by a higher
being is what is termed by philosophers as;
24. When the pleasure outweighs the pain, and one chooses to commit the act regardless of what
will happen, is referred to by philosophers as;
25. Deontology is the theory that one behaves in a way that is based on what one believes is his or
her.
