Question 1
Which classical position on the mind-body problem holds that reality consists of two fundamentally distinct substances: extended physical matter (res extensa) and non-extended thinking mind (res cogitans)?
Correct Answer:
Substance dualism (Descartes)
Question 2
Helmuth Plessner's philosophical anthropology contrasts human existence with animal existence using which key concept?
Correct Answer:
Centric positionality versus excentric positionality
Question 3
In Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception, how is the body understood in relation to consciousness?
Correct Answer:
The body is the primary vehicle of being-in-the-world, through which perception and action are intrinsically embodied (Leib)
Question 4
According to Julien Offray de La Mettrie's radical 18th-century materialist manifesto 'L'homme Machine', human thoughts and feelings are best explained as:
Correct Answer:
Purely mechanical and physiological operations of bodily organs and brain tissue
Question 5
What is the central claim of Hard Determinism regarding human free will?
Correct Answer:
All human actions are completely determined by prior causes and physical laws, meaning free will is an illusion
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