David Hume was:

1. a Platonist.
2. a theist.
3. a rationalist.
4. an empiricist.


answer: 4

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A) TTFTFTFT B) TTTTTTFF C) TTTF D) TF

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Varona says that we find the ideal of a perfect society in

a) Augustine’s City of God.

b) Plato’s Republic. c) Nietzsche’s Zarathustra. d) Skinner’s Walden Two.

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Aristotle thought that all friendships can be _____ when he relates friendships to justice by analogy: We can see that in this passage: "And the claims of justice differ too; the duties of parents to children and those of brothers to each other are not the same, nor those of comrades and those of fellow citizens, and so, too, with the other kinds of friendship."

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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What did William James believe provided the best evidence for free will?

A. People live their lives with the assumption of personal freedom and responsibility/ B. People are born with certain basic instincts that influence and determine how they behave. C. People are shaped by their environment, conditioned by their experiences to be the kind of people they are. D. People are governed by psychological forces, many of them unconscious, that cause them to think, feel, and act in certain ways.

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