Thomas Hobbes argued that human behavior is
a. best understood by examining how sensations interact with the mind
b. best explained by humans' natural appetites and aversions
c. driven by our pursuit of pleasures and aversion to pain
d. best explained through the study of psychology
e. All of the above
Question -2-The _____ requires government agents to obtain a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court before subjecting U.S. citizens to electronic surveillance for the purpose of gathering foreign intelligence.
a. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
b. USA Patriot Act
c. The War Powers Act
d. All of the above are true.
Question -3-The Supreme Court response to elite repression in cases such as the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II or the prosecution of communists advocating the overthrow of the American government in the 1950s was to
a. declare such acts unconstitutional.
b. uphold these acts as constitutional.
c. explain that the Constitution is not applicable in such cases.
d. declined to hear the relevant cases.
Question -4-Thomas Hobbes was a nominalist, someone who believes that:
a. no permanent objective truth lies beneath our world of appearances
b. language is necessary in part to help us make sense of the world
c. humans construct a perception of truth
d. truth is filtered through self-interest and the syllogisms of language
e. All of the above