Leviathan Quizzes

Leviathan Quiz 1

1 All thoughts are knowledge are in some way derived from____
Sense

Reason

Justice

the sovereign
2 The external world is nothing but a series of ____
thoughts

motions

essences

illusions
3 Decaying sense is ____
Memory/imagination

Aversion

Motion

Reason
4 What distinguishes man from animals?
Free will

Understanding/thought

A soul

Sense
5 Two types of thoughts are ____
rational and irrational

natural and divine

right and wrong

guided and unguided
6 A series of thoughts that seems disconnected is ____
guided thought

unguided thought

random thought

experience
7 The type of thinking that concerns ends and means is ____
animal thought

guided thought

instrumental thought

unguided thought
8 When we begin with a desire or fancy in mind and think of what means will bring about this desired end, this is an example of a(n) ____
guided thought

unguided thought

natural thought

instrumental thought
9 when we are in possession of some general means, and then think about what sorts of ends we can achieve with it, this is an example of a(n) ____
unguided thought

instrumental thought

guided thought

natural thought
10 We express thoughts externally to remember them and express them to others through ____
action

speech

command

reason
11 Which of the following identifies the four main uses of speech?
1) to remember cause and effect relations, 2) to show others our knowledge, 3) to express our will and desire to others, and 4) to differentiate us from non-rational animals

1) to remember cause and effect relations, 2) to show others our knowledge, 3) to express our will and desire to others, and 4) for sheer pleasure

1) to leave the state of nature, 2) to show others our knowledge, 3) to express our will and desire to others, and 4) for sheer pleasure

1) to remember cause and effect relations, 2) to show others our knowledge, 3) to give names to the essences of objects, and 4) for sheer pleasure
12 "The right ordering of names is our affirmations" is ____
orderly thought

truth

guided thought

speech
13 "The onely Science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow upon mankind" is ____
physics

philosophy

geometry

arithmetic
14 "Reckoning (that is, Adding and Subtracting) of the Consequences of generall names agreed upon" is ____
truth

speech

reason

thought
15 To settle disputes of definitions and first principles we appeal to ____
objective truth

tradition

a common power

the divine
16 The type of motion that can be thought of as essentially automatic bodily functions is ____
guided motion

vital motion

natural motion

voluntary motion
17 Motion that has specific ends in mind is ____
vital

rational

guided

voluntary
18 Voluntary motions are rooted in thought, and more basically, in ____
reason

appetites and aversions

free will

nothing, they are pre-determined
19 What is good and evil are defined ___
according to objective truth

by the sovereign

according to divine will

as the objects of our appetites and aversions
20 Natural wit is ___
innate

acquired through instruction

acquired through experience

determined by the sovereign
21 Acquired wit is ___
acquired through experience

acquired through instruction

innate

none of the above
22 The type of wit that "is grounded on the right use of Speech; and produceth the Sciences" is ____
divine wit

acquired wit

innate wit

natural wit
23 The differences in men's intellect arise from the differences in ____
power

innate capacities

worth

passions
24 The fundamental passion, that defined as man's "present means, to obtain some future Good" is ____
fear

reason

power

envy
25 The faculties of the body and mind, like strength, intellect, eloquence, etc, is ____
instrumental power

guided power

natural power

absolute power

Hobbes overall project is to explain by what reasons a commonwealth may govern men, and then to establish the best possible way for this government to function in order to accommodate the desires of its denizens.

Asked by Daniel P #1230903

Answered by jill d #170087 on 5/29/2023 10:50 AM