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EXAM REVIEW
HZT4U Final Exam Review:
For the exam:
Section 1 Short Answer--------------------------------------------/31 marks
Section II Long Answer-------------------------------------------/31 marks
Section III Definitions----------------------------------------------/23 marks
Section IV True or false-------------------------------------------/10 marks
Section V Essay Question ---------------------------------------/15 marks
Total------------------------------------------------------------------ /110
Exam questions based on journals, assigned text work, guest speakers, films, and lessons, and material that will be covered between Jan.18-22 (i.e., “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelus”, “Idiot Nation” (M.Moore) journal, astro-theology)
Section 1: Short Answer (31)
Example question:
1. Who said: “Epistemology, knowledge of truth is found only through divine help. Humans can know truth through reason or natural revelation and faith or supernatural revelation.” Was it St. James, St. Thomas Aquinas, or John Locke? (1)
What to study: journal, tests, chapter review & text questions, handouts, Friedrich Nietsche
positive psychology, Life of Pi, Lousie Hay, Gregg Bryden, the Turning Test, Sigmund Freud, metaphysics
Section II- Long Answer (31)
Example question: Describe in detail, Plato’s allegory of the cave.
Study: Thomas Hobbes paradigm shift, Einstein, Charles Darwin
Section III- definitions (22)
Study: Altruism, behaviourism, existentialism, Egoism, Essentialists, Buddhist, logic, deduction, premise
Voltaire, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hobbes, Joseph Butler, Jean-Paul Sartre, Robert Pirsig, Aristotle
fallacies
Section IV True or False
Example: Taoists believe that the oneness of the Tao is expressed in nature in a twofold manner, in yin and yang. _____
Section V: Essay Question (15)
Be prepared to talk about one or more of the following: the metaphysical question, What is a person? Artificial intelligence, Materialism, Idealism, The Matrix, “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”
There will be 2 bonus questions.
Review Note:
-positive psychology is the school of thought that positive thinking makes a difference in life. Key figures in this philosophy include: Norman Vincent Peale, Louise Hay (#1 best selling English non-fiction author who coined the term “positive affirmation”), Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopera, Echart Tolle, Gregg Braden (author of Fractal Time and Deep Truth) and Marianne Willamson. The premise= we have 60,000 thoughts a day. Over 90% of them are the same thoughts as the day before. Therefore, if more than half of them are negative, we will experience more “bad luck” and stress in life and if we can get to a point there 70% or more of our thoughts are positive, we will live life on a level that some people describe as “inner peace.” For example, in the case of the African Violet Lady, she was pathologically paranoid of going to Hell but when she changed her perspective by sharing her gift (green thumb with African violets) her fears went away and she was always happy. Wayne Dyer: “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
-Plato pre-dates Socrates. Socrates was a student of Plato.
-The most important/meaningful line in Life of Pi, is when Pi (who was symbolized by Richard Parker) asks the reporter, “Which story do you prefer? To which the reply comes, “The one with the tiger.” And Pi says, “…And so it goes with God…”
-A major philosophical debate is what defines life. Therefore, it is very debatable whether or not artificial life is possible. The Turing Test coined by Alan Turing, set out to prove or disprove whether the “voice” you are communicating with is human or machine.
-In Lost Season 2, episode 1, “Man of science, man of Faith,” John is the “person of faith? Jack, however, who tries not to have faith, gets faith when his patient and future ex-wife can walk. The hatch is a metaphor for hope, since its discovery provides a flood of hope amoung the castaways.
-In the journal, “Idiot Nation” by Michael Moore, Moore is left of centre. The key quote =“If turning students into billboards isn’t enough, schools and corporations sometimes turn the school itself into one giant neon sign for corporate America.”
-A key journal in the class was: “How the end Begins”
-A key debate in class was: “there is a god” v. “there is not a god” St. Thomas Aquinas was one of the philosophers who tried to offer a philosophical argument for the existence of God.
-key terms/people: metaphysics, paradigm shift, altruism, behaviourism, existentialism, Egoism, Essentialists, logic, deduction, premise, “Socratic method”, Doomsday Clock,Voltaire, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hobbes, Joseph Butler, Jean-Paul Sartre, Robert Pirsig, Aristotle
-hint: Pick one: a) Define fallacies. b) What do you think has been the biggest war crime of the 21st century and explain.
-metaphysics unit arguments: Materialism, Idealism, Descartes' psycho-physical dualism, Determinism
For the exam:
Section 1 Short Answer--------------------------------------------/31 marks
Section II Long Answer-------------------------------------------/31 marks
Section III Definitions----------------------------------------------/23 marks
Section IV True or false-------------------------------------------/10 marks
Section V Essay Question ---------------------------------------/15 marks
Total------------------------------------------------------------------ /110
Exam questions based on journals, assigned text work, guest speakers, films, and lessons, and material that will be covered between Jan.18-22 (i.e., “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelus”, “Idiot Nation” (M.Moore) journal, astro-theology)
Section 1: Short Answer (31)
Example question:
1. Who said: “Epistemology, knowledge of truth is found only through divine help. Humans can know truth through reason or natural revelation and faith or supernatural revelation.” Was it St. James, St. Thomas Aquinas, or John Locke? (1)
What to study: journal, tests, chapter review & text questions, handouts, Friedrich Nietsche
positive psychology, Life of Pi, Lousie Hay, Gregg Bryden, the Turning Test, Sigmund Freud, metaphysics
Section II- Long Answer (31)
Example question: Describe in detail, Plato’s allegory of the cave.
Study: Thomas Hobbes paradigm shift, Einstein, Charles Darwin
Section III- definitions (22)
Study: Altruism, behaviourism, existentialism, Egoism, Essentialists, Buddhist, logic, deduction, premise
Voltaire, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hobbes, Joseph Butler, Jean-Paul Sartre, Robert Pirsig, Aristotle
fallacies
Section IV True or False
Example: Taoists believe that the oneness of the Tao is expressed in nature in a twofold manner, in yin and yang. _____
Section V: Essay Question (15)
Be prepared to talk about one or more of the following: the metaphysical question, What is a person? Artificial intelligence, Materialism, Idealism, The Matrix, “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”
There will be 2 bonus questions.
Review Note:
-positive psychology is the school of thought that positive thinking makes a difference in life. Key figures in this philosophy include: Norman Vincent Peale, Louise Hay (#1 best selling English non-fiction author who coined the term “positive affirmation”), Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopera, Echart Tolle, Gregg Braden (author of Fractal Time and Deep Truth) and Marianne Willamson. The premise= we have 60,000 thoughts a day. Over 90% of them are the same thoughts as the day before. Therefore, if more than half of them are negative, we will experience more “bad luck” and stress in life and if we can get to a point there 70% or more of our thoughts are positive, we will live life on a level that some people describe as “inner peace.” For example, in the case of the African Violet Lady, she was pathologically paranoid of going to Hell but when she changed her perspective by sharing her gift (green thumb with African violets) her fears went away and she was always happy. Wayne Dyer: “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
-Plato pre-dates Socrates. Socrates was a student of Plato.
-The most important/meaningful line in Life of Pi, is when Pi (who was symbolized by Richard Parker) asks the reporter, “Which story do you prefer? To which the reply comes, “The one with the tiger.” And Pi says, “…And so it goes with God…”
-A major philosophical debate is what defines life. Therefore, it is very debatable whether or not artificial life is possible. The Turing Test coined by Alan Turing, set out to prove or disprove whether the “voice” you are communicating with is human or machine.
-In Lost Season 2, episode 1, “Man of science, man of Faith,” John is the “person of faith? Jack, however, who tries not to have faith, gets faith when his patient and future ex-wife can walk. The hatch is a metaphor for hope, since its discovery provides a flood of hope amoung the castaways.
-In the journal, “Idiot Nation” by Michael Moore, Moore is left of centre. The key quote =“If turning students into billboards isn’t enough, schools and corporations sometimes turn the school itself into one giant neon sign for corporate America.”
-A key journal in the class was: “How the end Begins”
-A key debate in class was: “there is a god” v. “there is not a god” St. Thomas Aquinas was one of the philosophers who tried to offer a philosophical argument for the existence of God.
-key terms/people: metaphysics, paradigm shift, altruism, behaviourism, existentialism, Egoism, Essentialists, logic, deduction, premise, “Socratic method”, Doomsday Clock,Voltaire, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hobbes, Joseph Butler, Jean-Paul Sartre, Robert Pirsig, Aristotle
-hint: Pick one: a) Define fallacies. b) What do you think has been the biggest war crime of the 21st century and explain.
-metaphysics unit arguments: Materialism, Idealism, Descartes' psycho-physical dualism, Determinism
