A Treatise of Human Nature Test | Final Test - Easy

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A Treatise of Human Nature Test | Final Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What best describes Hume's conception of the will?
(a) A power.
(b) A feeling.
(c) An extrinsic force.
(d) An intrinsic force.

2. Hume says the will is an impression of what?
(a) Volition.
(b) Free will.
(c) Benevolence.
(d) Spirituality.

3. What can one not derive an ought from?
(a) An and.
(b) A not.
(c) An is.
(d) A what.

4. How does Hume define anger?
(a) The desire to cause pain to someone you hate.
(b) The need to scream and shout at the nearest object.
(c) The desire to be self-destructive.
(d) The desire to be alone.

5. What does Hume say was enough to regulate humans in their tribes?
(a) Natural virtue.
(b) Natural sentiment.
(c) Social order.
(d) Sensibility.

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

7. On what does Hume consider moral distinctions are based in this section?
(a) Justice or injustice.
(b) Love or hate.
(c) Nature or nurture.
(d) Morality or immorality.

8. What is the title of Book Three, Part Three?
(a) Of Sympathy.
(b) Of Knowledge and Forgetting.
(c) Of the Other Virtues and Vices.
(d) Of Love and Hate.

9. By what does Hume say all human action is determined?
(a) Impressions.
(b) Love.
(c) Morals.
(d) Perception.

10. Why does Hume reject all other moral theories?
(a) They cannot explain obligation.
(b) They cannot explain life.
(c) The cannot explain society.
(d) They cannot explain people.

11. On what two impressions does Hume say moral distinctions are based?
(a) Frolics and deity.
(b) Laughter and pain.
(c) Resemblance and modesty.
(d) Reflection and approbation.

12. What does Hume say happens to justice over time?
(a) It gets less just.
(b) It gets simpler.
(c) It gets more complex.
(d) It is needed less and less.

13. When does one feel the impression of volition?
(a) Whenever one desires love.
(b) Whenever one desires hate.
(c) Whenever one desires good.
(d) Whenever one desires company.

14. What do moral judgments intrinsically motivate?
(a) Artifical pain.
(b) Action.
(c) Enthusiasm.
(d) Vice.

15. What kind of point of view does sympathy allow us to take?
(a) A general point of view.
(b) A subjective point of view.
(c) An individual point of view.
(d) A personable point of view.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hume say are the only two things we have in our minds?

2. What determines whether action is good or bad?

3. What do individuals develop after some social evolution?

4. What kind of people does Hume say don't understand justice?

5. Which of the following is a disposition involved with the passions?

(see the answer keys)

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