Exam 1

Question 1

Idealism

Answer 1

Ideas are real

Question 2

Materialism

Answer 2

Materials are real; things are real

Question 3

Dualism

Answer 3

Consumes both idealism and materialism;

ideas are real; materials are real

Question 4

Pre- Socratic

Answer 4

Before Socrates

Question 5

Phila

Answer 5

Love

Question 6

Sophia

Answer 6

Wisdom

Question 7

Metaphysics

Answer 7

The study of what is real

Question 8

Epistemology

Answer 8

The study of knowledge

Question 9

Ethics

Answer 9

Study of moral problems

Question 10

Logic

Answer 10

Study of correct reasoning

Question 11

Homer

Answer 11

(2 possible answers)

Epic writer or
names of epics: Iliad & Odyssey

Question 12

Premise

Answer 12

Reason of a argument

Question 13

Conclusion

Answer 13

Thesis of argument

Question 14

Sophos

Answer 14

A sage or wise man

Question 15

Thales

Answer 15

(2 possible answers)

First philosopher (western) OR
Believed everything had water it in.

Question 16

Mythology

Answer 16

A unproved explanation of a cultures history

Question 17

The principles of Sufficient Reasoning

Answer 17

Reason for everything

Question 18

Cosmology

Answer 18

A branch of metaphysics that studies the universe as a organized system

Question 19

Ontology

Answer 19

Branch of metaphysics that studies existence OR what it means TO BE or studies “being”

Question 20

Reducto ad absurdum

Answer 20

Reduce to the absurd

Question 21

Logos

Answer 21

(>1 possible answer)

Rationale (not reason), discourse, discussion

Question 22

Short answer:

Pythagoras

Answer 22

Created the Pythagorean theorem, he was the first cult leader and believed music was the highest form of mathematics

Question 23

Short answer:

Anaximander

Answer 23

Students of Thales, believed all universe comes from infinite like Mary Poppins bag and he also started the principle of sufficient reasoning

Question 24

Short Answer

Anaximenes

Answer 24

Student of Anaximander, believed air was the thing that created everything and created the word “pneuma” to explain air

Question 25

Short Answer:

Zeno of Elea

Answer 25

Student of Pythagoras, all his philosophy is paradoxical. This means that it would work on paper in math but in real life it doesn’t work and also a example of reducto ad absurdum

Question 26

Short Answer:

Democritus

Answer 26

Came up with the theory of atoms & voids, he was a sophist so he was a paid teacher and also Professor Coleman’s favorite pre-Socratic philosopher

Question 27

Short Answer:

Protagoras

Answer 27

His view is man is the measure of all things. This is bc man has a mind that can reason, we determine the value of everything.

Question 28

Short Answer:

Plato

Answer 28

He was a student of Socrates, he wrote in dialectic method. Came up with the theory of the forms which argued non physical forms represent reality.

Question 29

Socrates

Answer 29

Had his own method which was asking & answering questions to stimulate critical thinking. He was sentenced to death for corrupting the youth of Athens and atheism. He also held the position that “no one knowingly does evil”

Question 30

Aristotle

Answer 30

Known as the walking philosopher. He was a student of Plato. He also became the teacher of Alexander the Great when exhaled from Athens.

Question 31

E.C.

List the 6 virtues of being a philosopher

Answer 31

Patience, courage, honesty, generosity, sincerity, hospitality