Introduction Flashcards
What was one of the earliest pieces of literature and who was it by?
Homer’s Iliad
The Iliad terms the Psyche as ______
dead spirit
In Ancient Greece Thales is said to have originated the schools of thought known today as ___________ and _______ ___________
Naturalism and critical thinking
In ancient greece, Democritus is said to have originated the schools of thought known today as ___________ and ____________
Determinism and Materialsim
Hippocrates four personality types were ?
Sanguine
Choleric
Melancholy
Phlegmatic
Socrates did not claim to know the answers but lived in a state of __________
aporia (enlightened ignorance)
Plato’s epistemology is a form of
A Empiricism B Rationalism C Nativism D B and C
D B & C
Plato’s tripartate soul contained the _________soul, ___________ soul and ___________ soul
Rational, spirited and appetitive
Aristotle distinguished between the _____________ senses and the ______________ sense.
special senses and common sense
St Augustine’s Christian philosophy was based off____________(Rationalism)
Plato’s philosophy
Avicenna’s 2 key works were what?
The Book of Healing
The Canon and Medicine
Both Avicenna’s and Aquinas’ philosophy was based on ___________ philosophy (Empiricism)
Aristotle’s philosophy
St Thomas Aquinas’ soul had four broad categories, which were?
Vegetative
Sensitive
Rational
Appetitive
Fr Aquinas, The vegetative soul referred to ________, the sensitive soul referred to ________, the rational soul referred to ________.
veg = growth
senses
intellect
Descartes method of doubt used what 2 examples?
We could be in a dream
We could be fooled by a demon
Cogito ergo sum translates to
I think therefore I am
Because mind and body are different substances according to cartesian dualism, the essence of mind is ____________, and the essence of body is __________
Consciousness and spatial extension
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
A only possessed by all humans
Where did Descartes argue that the mind and the body interacted?
The pineal gland
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
D parallelism
Idealism is a form of monism, stating that there is only ________ but no ________
Only mental, no physical
Idealism (Berkeley) argues that if a tree falls down in a forest and no one hears it, ______________
It doesnt make a sound
