JURISPRUDENCE — TERM EXAM
1 — The theory, associated with David Hume, that moral judgments are based, not on reason, but on emotion.
a) RATIONALISM b) OBSTRUCTIONISM c) EMOTIVISM d) NATURALISM
2 — The theory of knowledge: it is concerned with how we know and what it is to know.
a) ANTHROPOLOGY b) ANTIQUITY c) TRUEOLOGY d) EPISTEMOLOGY
3 — The theory expounded by Engels that history develops by the material (physical) forces that transform nature. The process is dialectical in the sense that it unfolds by generating oppositions (thesis and antithesis) between conflicting powers. These contradictions resolve themselves and produce new material systems. Ultimately, though class conflict would, Engels believed, result in proletarian revolution, the dialectic would persist in directing social transformation. a) SUBJECTIVISM b) DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM c) NIHILISM d) COLLECTIVISM
4 — The theory that certain acts are always wrong regardless of their consequences.
a) SUBJECTIVISM b) NIHILISM c) ABSOLUTISM d) DEFEATISM
— The theory that it is not the individual or the state or any other entry, but the community that ought to be the focus of our values and legal and political analysis.