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1. Rowland's redefinition of Hell is that it is:

A. other people who intrude needlessly, with their deceits and calculations, attempting to take advantage.
B. the life unexamined by the discipline of philosophical thinking.
C. the place where those not saved would be tortured indefinitely.
D. a place where a person must brutalize the one most loved in the effort to save that loved one.

2. This is how he refines Aristotle's classical definition of philia:

A. feelings can result from the exercise of philia but philia is not comprised of feeling.
B. unlike Aristotle, it is not a matter of the will but of the passions.
C. a determination to see those outside your pack to be ethically just as important as those in your pack.
D. it is the willingness to form mutally supportive communities

3. Why is death bad for the one who dies, according to the book?

A. since we should be more like wolves who who do not grieve over death, if we understand correctly, it is not bad.
B. the social network formed by philia is diminished and the dying person understands the loss of others.
C. since we are oriented to the future by desires and goals, we have states in the present, which are lost at the moment of death.
D. death is the limit of a life, as Wittgenstein argued, and we are aware of those limits in the moment.

4. According to the book, meaning originates:

A. in the "arrow" of desire, goals and projects.
B. our willingness to accept that those who come after us will continue the human quest.
C. recognizing that the human search for is regressive and futile.
D. recovery of lost religious insights and practices employed by people when wolves and apes weren't so different.

5. Challenge: what is the contradiction that Heidegger identifies that drives us in terms of time and death?

A. death eventually destroys our sense of time.
B. we are caught between Being-Toward-the-Future and Being-Toward-Death.
C. we are aware that time must pass for us to live but time is finally not real.
D. we are caught in linear time like other apes but would prefer the circular time of wolves.

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