1st Test

Question 1

Root of philosophy

Answer 1

Wonder and awe

Question 2

Ethics

Answer 2

Study of right behavior

Question 3

Epistemology

Answer 3

Study of knowledge

Question 4

Cosmology

Answer 4

Study of world

Question 5

Aesthetics

Answer 5

Theory of beauty

Question 6

Ontology

Answer 6

Study of being

Question 7

Socrates’ influence

Answer 7

Most influential philopspher. Anthropological

Question 8

Socrates’ game changers

Answer 8

We know him because Plato write his speeches

First martyr of philosophy

Questioning everything was more important than survival

Question 9

Socrates’ four principles of philosophy

Answer 9

I examined life is not worth living

Objective truth that must be followed to live a good life

Truth lies within each of us. Only critical examination of ourselves will reveal that truth

No one can teach anyone the principles of right action and clear thinking

Question 10

Socratic method

Answer 10

Question posed to someone who claims to know something

Socrates finds minor flaws in argument

Both admit that they know nothing and are ignorant

Question 11

Fundamental philosophical division

Answer 11

Cosmology and anthropology

Question 12

Thales

Answer 12

Reducionism, believed everything can be derived from water

Question 13

Anaximander

Answer 13

Boundless/unlimited - believed that the element which made up everything would have to be boundless, unspecific
Entropy- nothing in the world can be predicted
Natural laws- believed natural laws govern these processes with inevitability

Question 14

Anaximenes

Answer 14

Believed that the air we experience is halfway point between all other forms in which primordial air can be transformed through transformation

Question 15

Pythagoras

Answer 15

Held curious view that all things are made up of numbers

Question 16

Xenophanes

Answer 16

Anthropomorphism- attacked religious and moral views presented to the Greek people by greatest poets, homer and Hesiod

Question 17

Empedocles

Answer 17

“Four roots”- believed everything was composed of a plurality of things - earth wind fire water

Question 18

Two forces responsible for change and movement

Answer 18

Love - unity

Strife - destruction

Question 19

Anaxagoras

Answer 19

Infinite seeds - Empedocles four roots but with infinite seeds
Mind (nous) - doesn’t believe in love and strife. Change is due to to intelligent rational order - animate
Inanimate - has mind but is ordered externally

Question 20

Atomism

Answer 20

World is composed of material bodies which they called atoms

- Lucretius & leucippus and Democritus

Question 21

Stoicism

Answer 21

Post Socratic, founded by Zeno of Cyprus. Interest in human conduct. Virtue equals knowledge

Question 22

Asceticism

Answer 22

Achieve state of blessedness by freeing oneself of all worldly demands, particularly those of emotions and pleasure

Question 23

Philosophy

Answer 23

Knowledge and way of life