View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Part 2, Of Justice and Injustice.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hume's idea of cause and effect differ from the conventional point of view that states they are features of the world?
(a) They are features of metaphysics.
(b) They are features of the mind.
(c) They are features of people.
(d) They are features of luck.

2. What was required to regulate society once it had evolved into a certain order?
(a) Justice.
(b) Passion.
(c) Morality.
(d) Religion.

3. Why do we love people we know more than strangers?
(a) They understand us.
(b) It is easier to talk to them.
(c) They resemble us.
(d) They don't judge us.

4. Why does Hume think the immaterial soul does not exist?
(a) It has been mathematically proven that it doesn't exist.
(b) We have no sensory impression of it.
(c) It is not divisable.
(d) There is no God and soul is connected to Him.

5. Hume says everyone can feel the difference between what?
(a) Images and words.
(b) Feeling and thinking.
(c) Women and men.
(d) Impressions and ideas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hume say was enough to regulate humans in their tribes?

2. What does religion argue about free will?

3. Into what does Hume divide knowledge?

4. Hume argues that reason is the slave of what?

5. Of what does Hume say we have a false sensation?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 258 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample