Philosophy

Philosophy Study Guide

5.11 Chapter Five Practice Exam

1. What view believes that every event, including human actions, is brought about by previous events by universal causal laws that govern the world and further believes human freedom is an illusion? a. Compatibilism b. Determinism c. Indeterminism d. Libertarianism 2. What philosopher argues that repressive social forces can erode an individual’s psychological autonomy, creating false desires and pseudo-selves and surveys the kinds of psychotic coercion that has forced women to think of themselves as subordinate to men? a. Grimshaw b. Sartre c. Daley d. James 3. What view believes that all events, including human actions, are caused and consider human actions free if they are the result of internal motivations, not the product of external influences or constraints? a. Responsibility b. External constraints c. Compatibilism d. Indeterminism 4. Which philosopher argued that there cannot be true freedom because none of the choices we make are actually free: our actions are dependent on, or caused by, factors beyond our control? a. Daly b. Frye c. Mill d. D’ Holbach

5. Which philosopher argues that we are in fact radically free condemned to be free and believes that

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