For _________, all spirits are immortal in some sense—they survive the death of the body and go into the next world.

A. Buddhists
B. Westerners
C. Daoists
D. Confucianists


C. Daoists
Spiritual immortality, a special goal of some Daoists, raises to a whole new level the practice of pursuing immortality in this life. To attain spiritual immortality, one must change all one's qi into primordial qi and then refine it.

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Positioning objects to maximize the good effects of the flow of energy is known as feng shui, a phrase that literally means _____

A) ?spirit-person B) ?the eternal Dao C) ?wind-water D) ?the cosmic way

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According to Epicurus, the human soul

a. is made up of atoms b. cannot survive the death of the body c. is the organ of sensation d. All of the above.

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Mahatma Gandhi walked barefoot everywhere, to the point that his feet became quite thick and hard. He also was quite a spiritual person. Even when not on a hunger strike, he did not eat much and became quite thin and frail. Furthermore, due to his diet, he ended up with very bad breath. Therefore, he came to be known as a "super callused fragile mystic plagued with halitosis." (Internet joke)This passage exemplifies a(n) ________.

A. report B. explanation C. unsupported assertion D. illustration E. argument

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Name the form of the following categorical statement (A, E, I, or O); identify the subject term and predicate term; and state the quantity and quality: Some philosophers are not dualists.

What will be an ideal response?

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