Introduction

Question 1

What was one of the earliest pieces of literature and who was it by?

Answer 1

Homer’s Iliad

Question 2

The Iliad terms the Psyche as ______

Answer 2

dead spirit

Question 3

In Ancient Greece Thales is said to have originated the schools of thought known today as ___________ and _______ ___________

Answer 3

Naturalism and critical thinking

Question 4

In ancient greece, Democritus is said to have originated the schools of thought known today as ___________ and ____________

Answer 4

Determinism and Materialsim

Question 5

Hippocrates four personality types were ?

Answer 5

Sanguine
Choleric
Melancholy
Phlegmatic

Question 6

Socrates did not claim to know the answers but lived in a state of __________

Answer 6

aporia (enlightened ignorance)

Question 7

Plato’s epistemology is a form of
A Empiricism B Rationalism C Nativism D B and C

Answer 7

D B & C

Question 8

Plato’s tripartate soul contained the _________soul, ___________ soul and ___________ soul

Answer 8

Rational, spirited and appetitive

Question 9

Aristotle distinguished between the _____________ senses and the ______________ sense.

Answer 9

special senses and common sense

Question 10

St Augustine’s Christian philosophy was based off____________(Rationalism)

Answer 10

Plato’s philosophy

Question 11

Avicenna’s 2 key works were what?

Answer 11

The Book of Healing
The Canon and Medicine

Question 12

Both Avicenna’s and Aquinas’ philosophy was based on ___________ philosophy (Empiricism)

Answer 12

Aristotle’s philosophy

Question 13

St Thomas Aquinas’ soul had four broad categories, which were?

Answer 13

Vegetative
Sensitive
Rational
Appetitive

Question 14

Fr Aquinas, The vegetative soul referred to ________, the sensitive soul referred to ________, the rational soul referred to ________.

Answer 14

veg = growth
senses
intellect

Question 15

Descartes method of doubt used what 2 examples?

Answer 15

We could be in a dream
We could be fooled by a demon

Question 16

Cogito ergo sum translates to

Answer 16

I think therefore I am

Question 17

Because mind and body are different substances according to cartesian dualism, the essence of mind is ____________, and the essence of body is __________

Answer 17

Consciousness and spatial extension

Question 18

Descartes believed that the mind was
A Only possessed by humans B only possessed by some humans C Possessed by all humans and animals D possessed by all humans but only some animals

Answer 18

A only possessed by all humans

Question 19

Where did Descartes argue that the mind and the body interacted?

Answer 19

The pineal gland

Question 20

The type of dualism which suggests that God intervenes to make mind and body interact, but not at every action, is known as
A Epiphenomenalism B Cartesian Dualism C Occasionalism D Parallelism

Answer 20

D parallelism

Question 21

Idealism is a form of monism, stating that there is only ________ but no ________

Answer 21

Only mental, no physical

Question 22

Idealism (Berkeley) argues that if a tree falls down in a forest and no one hears it, ______________

Answer 22

It doesnt make a sound