humanities 5 Flashcards
Who was a 6th century pre-Socratic philosopher and mathematician, who made many scientific and mathematical discoveries band believed in the transmitigation of souls?
Pythagoras
Who was the 5th and 6th century pre-Socratic philosopher who is called “the Father of western Philosophy”
Thales
Who was a 4th and 5th century pre-Socratic philosopher who denied the existence of time, plurality, and motion and is considered the founder of metaphysics?
Parmenides
What theory was Plato best known for?
theory of Forms (Ideas)
What theory states that objects of knowledge are universals, such as The Good and The Just. Because specific things in this world, such as a just person, are mere reflections of the Forms, they can only be the objects of opinion?
Plato’s theory of Forms (Ideas)
Which philosopher criticized Plato’s theory of Forms and was the first to systematize logic?
Aristotle
Which eleventh century philosopher founded Scholasticism and was best known for his ontological argument for the existence of God?
St. Anselm
Which philosopher was a fourteenth century English cleric who was famous for the dictum “Do not multiply entities beyond necessity”
Ockham
Which philosophy holds the view that knowledge of the external world can be derived from reason alone, without recourse to experience?
Rationalism
Descartes, Leibniz, and Spinoza were known for which type of philosophy?
Rationalism
Who was famous for saying “I think therefore I am”
Descartes, influential French philosopher and mathematician.
A German philosopher who argued in Theodicy, that this is the best of all worlds and considered one of the greatest minds of all time?
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
What is the view that all knowledge is derived from experience?
Empiricism
Locke, Berkeley, and Hume are known for what philosophy?
Empiricism
