Chapter 2 Flashcards
“… With the eye of my soul, I saw”
Augustine
The trinity
Augustine
Discourse on method
Descartes
“I am certain that I am a thing which thinks”
Descartes
Treatise on human nature
Hume
“Truths of reasoning are necessary”
Leibniz
“I know that I am”
Descartes
“… The mind is a white paper”
Locke
“… It is sometimes proved to me that those senses are deceptive”
Descartes
Essay concerning human understanding
Locke
Against the academics
Augustine
Treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge
Berkeley
“… Accept nothing as true which I did not clearly recognize to be so”
Descartes
Critique of pure reason
Kant
“… Some evil genius… Has employed his… Energies in deceiving me”
Descartes
(Descartes) “distanced us from the philosophy of existence”
John Paul II
Confessions
Augustine
Meditations on first philosophy
John Paul II
“God who is… The fountain of truth
Berkeley
“… Cogito… Agito… Factito”
Augustine
Epistemology is based upon the Greek word meaning:
Knowledge
The sophists believed that all knowledge is objective T/F
True
The sophists were the first paid teachers T/F
True
The word “sophist” means:
Wise men
Socrates believed that there is absolute and certain truth T/F
True
Plato claimed that knowledge is placed in the soul prior to birth T/F
True
The concept that knowledge is placed in the soul prior to birth is called the _________ theory
Recollection
In platos “_________ of the cave” the light represented truth
Allegory
Augustine was born in Roman North Africa T/F
True
Augustine was a member of the _________ sect cult for 9 years
Manichean
Who of the following influence Augustine:
Cicero
In a work directed against the teachers or academics, Augustine opposed their:
Skepticism
In this mathematical equation, Augustine saw truth:
7+3=10
Augustine apparently saw the _______ as the “highest reasoning power”
Mind
In a writing, Augustine called these as part of the “triad” (I) being, (II) knowledge, (III) will, (IV) intellect, (V) spirit
I, II, III
Descartes was educated by the Jesuits T/F
True
In his book, discourse on ________, Descartes stated to “accept nothing as true”
Method
Descartes’ doubt led to an epistemological ___________
Skepticism
Which of the following is true of Descartes’ writings?
All of the above (“senses are deceptive”, “I now dream”, “some evil genius”
Descartes’ doubts also included the existence of God T/F
False
Descartes declared “cogito, ___________”
Ergo sum
“Cogito, ergo sum” came from meditation on _____________
First philosophy
____________ is the belief that one is the only person in the universe
Solipsism
Descartes believed that the source of knowledge is reason T/F
False
The empiricists accepted Descartes demand for ______________
Certainty
Which of the following is true of John Paul II’s critique on Descartes? (I) he inaugurated an anthropocentric shift (II) he distanced us from the philosophy of existence (IV) he turned his back in metaphysics
I, II, IV
He spoke of contingent and necessary truth
Leibniz
The “tabula rasa” theory was proposed by Locke T/F
True
Locke was a friend of Newton and was educated at Cambridge T/F
False
Kant developed the concept called “unity of _________”
Consciousness
Explain the difference between the theories of knowledge of Plato and Locke
Plato-collection
Locke-theory that all human knowledge comes from our 5 senses and we will never know more than what our senses tell us
