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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hume says religious people focus on what?

2. What does Hume say was enough to regulate humans in their tribes?

3. What can one not derive an ought from?

4. What is the title of Book Three, Part One?

5. What was required to regulate society once it had evolved into a certain order?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Hume state that morality is not based on reason?

2. How does Hume define love and hatred?

3. Why does Hume reject all other moral theories?

4. What point is Hume making by using the murder example?

5. Why does Hume think there is no free will in religion?

6. Why does Hume think reason is the slave of the passions?

7. Why does Hume claim that actions are not the result of passions?

8. Why does Hume claim women need a sentiment of chastity?

9. Summarize Book Two.

10. How does Hume use murder as an example of morals?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the relationship between reason and passion? Why is this relationship important in terms of human will?

Essay Topic 2

Write an example that clarifies each of Hume's following ideas.

1. Cause and effect.

2. The difference between recalling events in the mind and the imagination.

Essay Topic 3

What is Hume's opinion on human virtues? How do they help to govern us and what would society be like if it was not populated with individuals with virtue?

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