Understanding Objectivism Test (04)

1) Objectivism advocates reality above ideas. [p.271]

2) Objectivism says ideas are the means of knowing reality. [p.271]

3) According to Dr. Peikoff, the validity of induction is not an unresolved issue. [p.276]

4) In the process of making a inductive leap, Dr. Peikoff identifies two points in order achieve a proper generalization: [p.277]

5) Because our inductions are not rationalist dogmas, revelations expressive of omniscience, Objectivism therefore agrees with empiricism, that our inductions are uncertain. [p.282]

6) Direct perception is not the only self-evident starting point. Self-evidency also applies conceptually. [p.283]

7) There is no context for a true axiom. [p.285]

8) Dr. Peikoff maintains that a rationalist would probably need psychotherapy, if he is a really deep rationalist. [p.297]

9) According to Dr. Peikoff, in order to formulate the philosophy Objectivism, one only needs to be intellectually honest. [p.302]

10) The reason that intrinsicists end up preaching selflessness is because of the Christian influence; it comes only from the Bible. [p.310]

11) According to Dr. Peikoff, morality is _____________ . [p.313]

12) According to Objectivism, ethics is a permanent struggle against temptation. [p.315]

13) Dr. Peikoff clams that rationalism, philosophically, leads to and supports emotionalism. [p.316]

14) According to Dr. Peikoff, since emotions come from your value judgments, they necessarily reveal your basic values, your subconscious self, and your basic character. [p.319-319]

15) It is essential to the Objectivist approach that emotions cannot be judged morally, neither as good nor evil. [p.319]

16) Fill in the blank: According to Dr. Peikoff, emotions are to value judgments or to thought as _____________ [p.322]

17) Dr. Peikoff provides an incomplete list of some of the functions of emotions. Identify the statement that is not listed: [p.324-329]

18) Dr. Peikoff maintains that there is no way to choose among legitimate options, except by reference to feelings. [p.330]

19) Dr. Peikoff states the following: In regard to friendship, it’s not possible to for an Objectivist to feel very friendly and warm toward an “outsider” or “heretic.” [p.335]

20) Dr. Peikoff maintains: One cannot have a tragic sense of life and still be one hundred percent honest, rational, and moral. [p.343]

21) Identify the following: The idea that on any level, in thought or action, that people cannot function without a purpose that brings them pleasure, something they want to achieve, that they enjoy achieving. [p.325]

22) According to Dr. Peikoff: Repression is to emotions what asceticism is to the body. [p.323]

23) Dr. Peikoff asserts: Empiricism, philosophically, leads to and supports repression. [p.316]

24) Dr. Peikoff states that he neither challenges nor endorses the possibility that repression could be a precondition of rationalism. [p.316]

25) Dr. Peikoff claims the following: To Say “Good morning” to a priest is a sanction of evil. [p.343-344]