Chapter 3 Self-Quiz

. Within the Vedas, philosophical reflections on Vedic myths, hymns, and rituals are found primarily in the

Samhitas.

Brahmanas.

Aranyakas.

Upanisads.

. Because the self is that which perceives the whole world, the Brhadaranyaka Upanisad claims that the self

cannot itself be perceived.

is reducible to a set of biological processes.

is affected by the objects that it perceives.

is eternal and unchanging.

. The doctrine of karma fundamentally holds that when people perform good actions,

they will tend to live good lives.

they will experience good consequences as a causal result of those actions.

God will look upon them favorably.

they are guaranteed to become Brahmins in their next lives.

. The Buddha thought that we have attachments to things because, fundamentally,

society conditions us to desire more and more things.

attachments make life worth living.

we are inherently selfish.

we have a false understanding of reality.

. To refute the idea that there is a self who is an autonomous author of one's actions, the Buddha cites the doctrine of

dependent origination.

karma and rebirth.

emptiness.

the Eightfold Path.

. When an enlightened person achieves the first stage of nirvana, that person

no longer experiences strong desires or aversions.

ceases to exist altogether.

will come back in future lives to remove the suffering of others.

stops experiencing any pain or pleasure at all.

. Having failed to identify Nagasena with any of his body parts or any of the five skandhas, King Milinda initially thinks that

Nagasena is identical with his unchanging atman.

Nagasena must not exist at all, and is lying about his own existence.

Nagasena is being indecisive about his own true identity.

Nagasena is being humorous.

. The role of particularity (visesa) in the Vaisesika system is to

distinguish general properties from individual substances.

represent the object of perception.

individuate one attribute from another.

mark a substance as being numerically distinct from every other substance.

. Which of the following is not a genuine source of knowledge (pramana), according to Nyaya?

perception

memory

testimony

inference

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