pH 338 Test 1

Us to pass over into others who live in different parts of the world of which we are citizens, others who are on the margins, for example, "...the invisible people of the world."

Us to realize that we never should make personal decisions about the rightness or wrongness of others' acts; real enagement with literary experience teaches us to follow a path of relativism.

Us to cultivate a capacity for sympathetic imagination that enables us to comprehend the motives and choices of people different from ourselves, seeing them not as forbiddingly alien or other, but as sharing many problems and possibilities with us.

Us to sense our own vulnerability to misfortune as characters are some times exposed to severe outcomes not because they are particularly bad but because of things that happen to them over which they have little or no choice.

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All of the Above

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The film points out how people often make judgments about other based simply on appearances, facial expressions, body language. Thereby, they often make faulty judgments because they read these signs in terms of their own cultural experience, not recognizing that they may signal something quite different in another culture.

The film offers an example of how individuals have to undergo interior struggles with themselves in order to make just choices.

Though often social forces act as strong determinants of what happens, the film suggests that one can never under estimate an individual's personal decision in the midst of these forces.

The film suggets that influence of an another can have a powerful impact on the choice an individual makes.

A and D

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All of the Above

The film indicates how chance happening like the outbreak of war or weather conditions can impact the future of persons' lives and involve them in making decision they would never had to face had the chance happenings not occurred.

The fact that Hatsue married Kuzo shows how personal desire is not always followed because some other value supersedes it; negotiating these values involves an individual in a conflict.

The film suggests in the very way it is told that one cannot understand or make judgments in the present without knowing the past.

The very way the story is told suggests that relationships are complex, that often one cannot understand the whole situation without hearing and understanding the many people involved in it. Therefore, making decisions in the midst of a complex of relationships takes patience and a willingness to sort all those things out.

A and B

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All of the Above

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From the age of twelve he believed that his mission in life was to fostering solidarity among human beings.

Rorty considered himself as having been lucky to be born in a Western liberal democracy, though he does not believe that those who live in such a democracy should try to persuade other groups in the world to become a part of this story.

Until toward the end of his life he had looked down on religions as not worthy of entering into conversation. But he eventually held that those using a religious vocabulary had a right to enter the conversation and try to persuade others with their narrative. At the same time, he hoped that those religious narratives would lose in face of his own.

Toward the end of his life he came to call the narrative of the philosophy he wrote a kind of religion, a worldview -- something that fills the void that God or Truth once filled. He spoke of a religion of democracy or a romantic polytheism.

In order that the particular narrative of Western Liberalism that he proposed would succeed, he called for an education of the sentiments, a sentimental education, which would be aided by the sacred books of his religion, literature and poetry.

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All of the Above

Engages in a dialectical method, a back and forth questioning, because he believes we already know the answers to the questions. We just have to be reminded of what we know. The questions are a catalyst to remembering.

Believes that there are divisions in our apprehension, from the lowest where we are under the sway (power) of prejudice to the highest where we can see, know the Forms, realities that are beyond the senses.

Represented the Idea/Form of the Good, the highest Form, “the universal cause of all things right and beautiful," the source of truth and reason, as the Sun in the Allegory of the Cave.

Pictured the escaped prisoner who goes out of the cave into the sunlight and sees things as they are to the one who is able to contemplate, to know the Forms.

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All of the Above

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David Hume held that humans could correctly gauge the morality of a particular act by the feelings the act aroused in them.

Hume believed that morality was relative because the feelings of human beings are necessarily different from one person to the next; therefore, individuals necessarily respond differently to the same sight or act.

Hume held that as long as humans were not defective (not properly functioning) they would experience the same basic feelings when they thought about the same acts; therefore, morality was not relative.

Kant basically agreed with Hume because Kant based his thinking about morality on practical reason.

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All of the Above