Leviathan Quizzes

Leviathan Quiz 1

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

Sense

Justice

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

essences

thoughts

illusions
3 Decaying sense is ____
Motion

Aversion

Memory/imagination

Reason
4 What distinguishes man from animals?
Understanding/thought

Sense

Free will

A soul
5 Two types of thoughts are ____
natural and divine

guided and unguided

right and wrong

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

experience

guided thought

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

instrumental thought

unguided 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) ____
natural thought

guided thought

instrumental thought

unguided 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) ____
natural thought

guided thought

unguided thought

instrumental thought
10 We express thoughts externally to remember them and express them to others through ____
command

reason

speech

action
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 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 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 ____
truth

guided thought

speech

orderly thought
13 "The onely Science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow upon mankind" is ____
arithmetic

physics

philosophy

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

thought

speech

truth
15 To settle disputes of definitions and first principles we appeal to ____
a common power

tradition

the divine

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 ____
vital

guided

voluntary

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

free will

appetites and aversions

nothing, they are pre-determined
19 What is good and evil are defined ___
as the objects of our appetites and aversions

by the sovereign

according to divine will

according to objective truth
20 Natural wit is ___
acquired through instruction

determined by the sovereign

innate

acquired through experience
21 Acquired wit is ___
innate

acquired through instruction

acquired through experience

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

innate wit

divine wit

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

power

passions

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

fear

reason

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

guided power

instrumental power

natural 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