Thursday, December 12, 2002

AHHHHHHHhh!!!!!!!!!!
THe Philosophy test was SO HARD!
Half multiple choice, half matching quotes.
On the website, all the practice tests.. the quotes were all 5 people, match 5 quotes. ON the FINAL, however, He grouped like 20 quotes and 10 people (the scantron had 10 bubbles), which MAKES IT SIGNIFICANTLY EASIER FOR YOU TO FRIGGIN' FAIL.
argh.
I feel like crap. I hope he curves a loT, because I was probably sure of about 50% of my answers.
wahhHHHH!!!!
I HATE PHILOSOPHY!

Here are some sample questions for your enjoyment:

Please match the FR*GGING quotes:

a. Augustine b. Avicenna c. Al-Ghazali d. Averroes e. Aristotle

1) . . . the existence of infinite temporal existents renders the existence of a single eternal first principle necessary, and there is no God but He. . . .
2) . . . whatever is, is good.
3) Cognition can again be analyzed into two kinds. One is the kind that may be known through Intellect; it is known necessarily by reasoning through itself. . . . The other kind of cognition is one that is known by intuition.
4) It does not behoove you to say that an infinite regress of causes is impossible.
5) Whatever has being must either have a reason for its being, or have no reason for it. If it has a reason, then it is contingent .... If on the other hand it has no reason for its being in any way whatsoever, then it is necessary in its being.
6) Similarly, therefore, (in the case of the causes and their aggregate) it will be said that each cause has a cause, but the aggregate of these causes has no cause. For all that can be truly said of the individuals cannot similarly be said of their aggregate.
7) For what is that which we call evil but the absence of good?
8) Therefore the series must end in a necessary cause, and in this case this necessary cause must be necessary through a cause or without a cause, and if through a cause, this cause must have a cause and so on infinitely, and if we have an infinite regress here, it follows that what was assumed to have a cause has no cause, and this is impossible. Therefore the series must end in a cause necessary without a cause, i.e. necessary by itself, and this necessarily is the necessary existent.

a. Plato b. Aristotle c. Hume d. Kant e. Dignaga

9) For sensation is surely not the sensation of itself, but there is something beyond the sensation, which must be prior to the sensation. . . .
10) Though atoms serve as causes of the consciousness of the sense-organs, they are not its actual objects like the sense organs; because the consciousness does not represent the image of the atoms.
11) Let us then make the experiment whether we may not be more successful in metaphysics, if we assume that the objects must conform to our knowledge.
12) . . . although they make use of the visible forms and reason about them, they are thinking not of these, but of the ideals which they resemble; not of the figures which they draw, but of the absolute square and the absolute diameter, and so on. . . .
13) 'Tis a common observation, that the mind has a great propensity to spread itself on external objects, and to conjoin with them any internal impressions, which they occasion, and which always make their appearance at the same time that these objects discover themselves to the senses.

Now iMagine and entire test.. 120 questions.. like the above.
DO NOT JUST WANT TO KILL YOURSELF?!?!

I do...
wah.....

posted by Steph at 1:52 PM

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