Leviathan Quizzes

Leviathan Quiz 1

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

Justice

the sovereign

Sense
2 The external world is nothing but a series of ____
illusions

motions

essences

thoughts
3 Decaying sense is ____
Memory/imagination

Aversion

Motion

Reason
4 What distinguishes man from animals?
A soul

Sense

Free will

Understanding/thought
5 Two types of thoughts are ____
rational and irrational

right and wrong

natural and divine

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

unguided thought

experience

guided thought
7 The type of thinking that concerns ends and means is ____
unguided thought

guided thought

instrumental thought

animal 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) ____
instrumental thought

unguided thought

natural thought

guided 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) ____
instrumental thought

guided thought

natural thought

unguided thought
10 We express thoughts externally to remember them and express them to others through ____
speech

reason

action

command
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 give names to the essences of objects, and 4) for sheer pleasure

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 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 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
12 "The right ordering of names is our affirmations" is ____
speech

orderly thought

guided thought

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

arithmetic

geometry

physics
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 ____
the divine

a common power

tradition

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

vital motion

voluntary motion

natural motion
17 Motion that has specific ends in mind is ____
rational

voluntary

vital

guided
18 Voluntary motions are rooted in thought, and more basically, in ____
appetites and aversions

free will

nothing, they are pre-determined

reason
19 What is good and evil are defined ___
according to divine will

as the objects of our appetites and aversions

by the sovereign

according to objective truth
20 Natural wit is ___
innate

acquired through instruction

determined by the sovereign

acquired through experience
21 Acquired wit is ___
innate

acquired through experience

acquired through instruction

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

divine wit

acquired wit

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

passions

innate capacities

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

power

reason

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

natural power

instrumental power

guided 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