A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF HOW PHILOSOPHY STARTED

Question 1

knowing the basics—–___——become
unimportant for many adults.

Answer 1

• the first causes
• ultimate principles

Question 2

the worls starts with ____

Answer 2

self-existense

Question 3

Life means for us constantly to transform into _____ all that we are meet with.

Answer 3

light and flame

Question 4

We naturally start from?

Answer 4

• darkness
• ignorance

Question 5

The need to survive

Answer 5

physical existense

Question 6

not conducive fo philosophy

Answer 6

prosperity

Question 7

where did philosophy started?

Answer 7

east

Question 8

western thoughts were influenced by?

Answer 8

oriental thought

Question 9

it began trating the world in a particular faashion

Answer 9

wstern thought

Question 10

philosophy is rooted in?

Answer 10

mythological stories

Question 11

explanations are all-encompassing, ultimate
and universal explanation for the world and its
beginnings.

Answer 11

mythological

Question 12

Myth’s way of explaining

Answer 12

metaphysical

Question 13

Stories are based on myths, thus, mythical or
mythological and not based on reason or
rational argumentation.

Answer 13

metaphysical but not philosophical

Question 14

SPRINGBOARD FOR THE DEVELOPMENTOF
PHILOSOPHYANDSCIENCE

Answer 14

Ionians

Question 15

a rational attempt to unravel the mysteries of
reality.”

Answer 15

myth and fable

Question 16

what aspect of the first causes and ultimate principles, sometimes identifying these as soul.

Answer 16

nature

Question 17

who are the first philosophers

Answer 17

milesians

Question 18

how do milesians want to understand the reality

Answer 18

as a whole

Question 19

what milesians want to discover?

Answer 19

• first cause
  or
• unifying principle of everything

Question 20

where do mileseanse serve the springboard

Answer 20

• philosophy
• science

Question 21

triumph over a primitive form of
viewing the world.

Answer 21

Philosophy

Question 22

ancient philosophy transition from mythos to?

Answer 22

logos

Question 23

It refers to folk narratives

Answer 23

Mythos

Question 24

mythos means?

Answer 24

story

Question 25

Logos identified in philosophy as?

Answer 25

reason of truth

Question 26

it means word

Answer 26

logos

Question 27

ancient started___

Answer 27

out of wonder

Question 28

they wanted to explain the diversity of existing beings

Answer 28

ancient

Question 29

ancient explain the coming into being of the universe in terms of?

Answer 29

- material or basic stuff

Question 30

what is the birth of ancient philosophy

Answer 30

6th century

Question 31

ancient philosophy end at?

Answer 31

529 C.E

Question 32

who forbade the teaching of pagan authors?

Answer 32

emperor justinian

Question 33

who started ancient philosophy

Answer 33

thales

Question 34

who said this “What fundamental substance/stuff is the from which everything else proceeds?"

Answer 34

thales

Question 35

will always have enduring value.

Answer 35

greek philosophy

Question 36

what are the charaacteristics of ancient philosophy?

Answer 36

- Intellectual activity - Search for wisdom - Knowledge of totality - Totality of reality - speculative, theoretical, contemplative, reflective

Question 37

Gaverise to culture as a rhetorical and literary phenomenon. It is associated with culture. It is Activity concerned with speech and writing

Answer 37

Intellectual activity

Question 38

that dear delight

Answer 38

plato

Question 39

“the love of modestly elusive truth seems more glorious, incomparably, than the lust for ways of flesh

Answer 39

search for wisdom

Question 40

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge that is unlimited, corresponding to the infinite knowledge of God.

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Phaedrus

Question 41

Inquiry about the whole expanse of reality, without excluding any part

Answer 41

Knowledge of totality

Question 42

Method which is rational explanation

Answer 42

totality of reality

Question 43

does not pursue any utilitarian end

Answer 43

free science

Question 44

Seeks no other goal but that of ______, for its own sake, and derives its stimulus from no other source but natural desire to know

Answer 44

Knowledge

Question 45

water as basic stuff

Answer 45

thales

Question 46

It is the source of all things and earth flows on?

Answer 46

water

Question 47

it is the first principle and principal of all things

Answer 47

motor

Question 48

all things lead back to it

Answer 48

ultimate principle

Question 49

He did not follow the naturalistic explanation

Answer 49

Pythagoras of samos

Question 50

for pythagoras the world is made of?

Answer 50

numbers

Question 51

the world is then?

Answer 51

- predictable - mechanical

Question 52

means topurifythesoul for the afterlife

Answer 52

intellectual activity

Question 53

what is the meaning of philos/philia/philein and sophia

Answer 53

- love of wisdom or - friend of wisdom

Question 54

coined the term philosophy

Answer 54

- philia - sophia

Question 55

he attributed the discovery of philosophy to Pythagoras which was manifested in his reply to the question about art.

Answer 55

Heracles Ponticus

Question 56

he said that “The unexamined life is not worth living.”

Answer 56

socrates

Question 57

socartes identifies _____. If knowledgecanbe learned,socanvirtue

Answer 57

knowledge wiith virtue

Question 58

it is a a sufficient condition to the good life.

Answer 58

self-knowledge

Question 59

One must seek knowledge and wisdom before private interests. In this manner, knowledge is sought as ameans toethical action.

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socrates

Question 60

Happiness or well-being (eudaimonia) is the highest aim of moral thought and conduct, and the virtues (aretê: 'excellence') are the dispositions/skills needed to attain it.

Answer 60

plato

Question 61

the final and self-sufficient end of a person.

Answer 61

happiness

Question 62

he was considered to be the brightest among plato's students in acaddemy

Answer 62

aristotle

Question 63

where did aristotle born?

Answer 63

macedonia

Question 64

aristotle studied under plato in?.

Answer 64

athens

Question 65

what school did aristotle founded? where he became a very productive intellectual

Answer 65

lyceum

Question 66

Aristotle tutored?

Answer 66

alexander the great

Question 67

What is the major work in ethics of aristotle?

Answer 67

Nichomachean ethics