The Philosophical Journey An Interactive Approach 7th Edition By William – Test Bank

The Philosophical Journey: An Interactive Approach, 7e (Lawhead)
Chapter 7 Philosophy and the Meaning of Life

1) The metaphor of the jigsaw puzzle was used to illustrate the view that there is no one, right answer to the meaning of life.

Answer: FALSE
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2) The mosaic metaphor was used to illustrate the view that there are many different meaningful patterns that can be composed within each individual’s life.

Answer: TRUE
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3) According to Socrates, to answer the question “What is my life all about?” we need to know what human existence, in general, is all about.

Answer: TRUE
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4) Some philosophers argue that the question “What is the meaning of life?” is a meaningless one.

Answer: TRUE
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5) According to your text, only the religious person is concerned with the question of the meaning of life.

Answer: FALSE
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6) Leo Tolstoy found the resolution to all his doubts in philosophical arguments for the existence of God.

Answer: FALSE
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7) Hazel Barnes argues that if there were some ultimate purpose we were meant to fulfill, that would restrict our freedom and creativity.

Answer: TRUE
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8) A characteristic of the philosophy of existentialism is its stress that all human actions are determined.

Answer: FALSE
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9) There are both religious and atheistic existentialists.

Answer: TRUE
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10) According to Søren Kierkegaard, philosophy should be objective and free of all subjectivity.

Answer: FALSE
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11) According to Kierkegaard, achieving self-knowledge is more like achieving mathematical knowledge than it is achieving physical fitness.

Answer: FALSE
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12) According to Jean-Paul Sartre, it is wrong to say that someone is born a coward or born a hero.

Answer: TRUE
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