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QUIZ 2 : ANSWER KEY PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY Part I: Matching (Options may be used more than once, or not at all). G 1. Rousseau: Humanity's first language is the ___ of nature. H 2. Mauss: The spirit of the gift. I 3. Marx: The products of labor become commodities, sensuous things which are at the same time, ___ or social. K 4. Aristotle: Virtue is a certain kind of ___ condition. P 5. Rousseau: The beast chooses or rejects by ____… J 6. Rousseau: … the human chooses or rejects by an act of ___. R 7. Derrida: Marx's table resembles a prophetic ___. Q 8. Marx: ___ appears to be something accidental and purely relative. L 9. Aristotle: A cow, horse, or child cannot be ___. N 10. Derrida: But what would Enlightenment be without the ___? E 11. Rousseau: The true founder of civil society was the first man to say: ___. B 12. Du Bois: Human education is not simply a matter of ___. A 13. Aristotle: Virtue does not consist in having ____, nor does intelligence. F 14. Marx: The usefulness of a thing makes it a ____. D 15. Aristotle: It would be absurd if the gods were to have a ___. M 16. Rousseau: Let us not conclude with ___ that humanity is naturally evil. C 17. Value is as much humans' social product as is their ___. Part 2: Short Answer 18. Define the following Greek terms: Eudaimonia: Happiness; Well-being; Good-spiritedness Ethos: Habit Dikast: Judge Philia: Love; Like Dikaion: Justice Sophia: Wisdom Oikos: House Nomos: Law Dichast: Halver; One who cuts things in half Arete: Virtue; Excellence Meson: Mean 19. In terms of questions, answers, and science, explain, in the three sentences, Bertrand Russell's understanding of the value (or vocation) of philosophy (as opposed to science): For Russell, the job of philosophy is to ask questions, specifically those questions for which there seem to be no certain answers, but in questioning and not answering, philosophy opens up paths to new ways of thinking that can eventually lead to a science once there is an answer. It is...