Reviews for all! Notice...Drum Roll!---this is also our midterm tests. Absolutely critical

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Here they are! Review/Tests. Note the Name of your class, please. Study only what you are taking; sound smart? ;) Watch for our pod reviews. No need to rewrite the questions on your test: I know exactly what they are.

You have 5 days from After Our Review to do so. Anytime within that 5 days is fine.

Some of you wanted a picture of me to put to the voice (those who haven't had other classes with me before). Here I am, as I am this summer, trying to look serious and not just start laughing.

Cheers~

Dr. Lee Basham

 

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Introduction to Social and Political Philosophy

2020

Dr. Lee Basham

 

Here it is my friends. Please answer the questions as fully as you can. Look at your notes and listen in at Drlabasham777.podbean.com for our review. You will need to submit your test answers to drlabasham77@gmail.com. You have 5 days from After Our Review to do so. Anytime within that 5 days is fine.

And get your enrollment going. Don't let the Chinese government hold you back. We got this!

 

1. What is Rawls’ project? What two things does he want to fight? How does he broadly understand Justice? What are Rawls’ 3 primary social goods (rewards)? What is Meritocracy (rule by Merit) or the Individualist Work Ethic (same thing)? Define. What is the Brute Luck argument against Meritocracy/Individualist Work Ethic? What is its conclusion? (Give the actual argument.) How does Rawls defend its premises? Does Rawls endorse total equality of the 3 basic goods (at least income?. That is, does Rawls endorse “equal outcomes”?
2. What is the veil of ignorance? Detail the various “knows and not knowns”. What is the basic goal Rawls proposes for choice of the principles of justice, once we pretend the veil of ignorance? What is the first principle we will choose? Why can it never be compromised for the others? What are the next two, 2a and 2b. Explain the reasoning for 2a, given the veil of ignorance and the basic goal while pretending the veil of ignorance. What is 2b? Explain the reasoning for 2b, given the veil of ignorance and the basic goal while pretending the veil of ignorance. What is the difference between a Theory of Justice and its implementation? Are you a Rawlsian? Explain why or why not.
3. What is Utilitarianism? Define. What was one of Jeremy Bentham’s motives for developing it in England? Where is Bentham now? Why? Explain.
4. How would Rawls and Bentham respond to the story of the Little Red Hen? The Lazy animals take the bread by force. She gives the lazy animals some of the bread. Or she does not give the bread to the lazy animals. And to make things more fun, tomorrow, a meteor comes down from space and blows the cat, Goose and dog to kingdom come (kills them).
   1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chmxGSi7x98

Thanks!

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Introduction to Philosophy

2020

Dr. Lee Basham

 

Here it is my friends. Please answer the questions as fully as you can. Look at your notes and listen in at Drlabasham777.podbean.com for our review. You will need to submit your test answers to drlabasham77@gmail.com. You have 5 days from After Our Review to do so. Anytime within that 5 days is fine.

And get your enrollment going. Don't let the Chinese government hold you back. We got this!

1. What is hard determinism about freedom? What is causal determinism? How does the hard determinist define freewill? Give the basic argument for hard determinism. What is de Holbach’s Tower example? Explain how it illustrates Hard determinism.
2. What is libertarianism about freedom? How does the libertarian about freewill define freewill? What is the basic argument for libertarianism about freewill? How does skepticism (doubt) about the basic sanity of mathematics and therefore, of science, open the door for libertarianism? Explain.
3. What is “soft determinism” or compatibilism about freewill? How does the compatibilist define freewill? (It’s a rather long list). How does this help the compatibilist escape the implications (results) of hard determinism? Explain.
4. What is the standard definition of God in Western philosophy? What is the relationship between facts and truths? What is a “fact” as a fact? Give the correspondence theory of truth. What is closed theism about knowledge? What is open theism about knowledge? What is the paradox of God’s knowledge for freewill (on closed theism)? How can a libertarian about freewill respond to and escape the paradox? Explain. Would you, if you are or were to be a theist (belief in the existence of God), be a closed or open theist? Explain your view.

Thanks!

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Ethics

Midterm Test, 2020

Dr. Lee Basham

 

Here it is my friends. Please answer the questions as fully as you can. Look at your notes and listen in at Drlabasham777.podbean.com for our review. You will need to submit your test answers to drlabasham77@gmail.com. You have 5 days from After Our Review to do so. Anytime within that 5 days is fine.

And get your enrollment going. Don't let the Chinese government hold you back anymore. We got this!

 

1. What is Nihilism about ethics? What is the “ethics as non-rational belief” argument? Provide. What must we do to answer nihilism successfully and directly.
2. What is the principle of entailment? So, what is subjectivism about ethics?
3. What are three basic questions about it? What are the answers, and why? How do these compare to your own answers? Is subjectivism about ethics, given your responses, true or false? Explain. Does subjectivism effectively answer nihilism? Explain.
4. What is cultural relativity about ethics? Define. What are three basic questions? What are the answers, and why? How do these compare to your own answers? What is “tolerance” of other cultures? Does belief in CR necessarily promote tolerance? Explain. Does CR effectively answer nihilism? Explain. What is Utilitarianism? Define. What was one of Jeremy Bentham’s motives for developing it in England? What is the organ donor problem? Explain. What feature of morality does the organ donor problem appear to violate?
5. Apply Nihilism, Subjectivism, CR and Utilitarianism to the story of the Little Red Hen. What should the Cat, The Pig and The Duck do under each theory? What should the Hen do? Explain as fully as you can. Be careful, because none of these theories can handle this story very well.       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chmxGSi7x98
6. In the case of Utilitarianism, consider the 2 options; The Lazy animals take the bread by force. She gives the lazy animals the bread. Or she does not give the bread to the lazy animals. And to make things more fun, tomorrow, a meteor comes down from space and blows the cat, Goose and dog to kingdom come (kills them). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chmxGSi7x98

Thanks!

 

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Cheers~

Dr. Lee Basham