Lesson 1

Question 1

General and abstract

Answer 1

Philosophy

Question 2

Way of thinking about the world, the universe, and society

Answer 2

Philosophy

Question 3

works by asking very basic questions

Answer 3

Philosophy

Question 4

Means “love”

Answer 4

Philo

Question 5

Sophia/Sofia :______

Answer 5

Wisdom

Question 6

Considered as the “love of wisdom”

Answer 6

Pythagoras

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5 Branches of Philosophy

Answer 7

Metaphysics
Ethics
Epistemology
Logic
Aesthetic

Question 8

Questions or studies reality and existence

Answer 8

Metaphysics

Question 9

Moral philosophy ; concerned with what is good

Answer 9

Ethics

Question 10

Deals with concept of knowledge, how we learn and what we know

Answer 10

Epistemology

Question 11

Rules of valid reasoning

Answer 11

Logic

Question 12

Basic to complex; one of the two basic type of reasoning/learning

Answer 12

Induction

Question 13

Learning through sensation (5 senses) and/or environment

Answer 13

Empiricism

Question 14

Pioneered his idea of Tabula Rasa

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John Locke

Question 15

“the human mind at birth starts at a clean state”

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Tabula Rasa

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Complex to basic

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Deduction

Question 17

Knowledge is based upon reason itself which already is innate (reasoning based on what you already know in the beginning)

Answer 17

Rationalism

Question 18

one of the major rational thinkers or rationalists; said “cogito ergo sum”

Answer 18

Rene Descartes

Question 19

“cogito ergo sum”

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“I think, therefore I am”

Question 20

Deals with notion of beauty

Answer 20

Aesthetics

Question 21

Remembered for his big contribution in Cosmology

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Heraclitus

Question 22

Heraclitus believed at ___ forms the basic material principle of an orderly universe

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Fire

Question 23

The Greek Triumvirates

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Socrates
Plato
Aristotle

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3 steps of Socratic method

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• Give initial reaction/opinion
• Ask a question that races an exception to that definition or opinion
• Give a better definition or opinion

Question 25

First moral philosophers

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Socrates

Question 25

cooperative argumentative dialogue between individuals

Answer 25

Socratic method

Question 26

He believes that you can separate the soul and the body; presented Allegory of the Cave

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Plato

Question 27

Introduced the idea that the physical world is not real

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Plato

Question 28

Physical world we live in is a poor imitation of real world

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Theory of Forms

Question 29

Believed that man is a single essence; Golden mean

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Aristotle

Question 30

Golden mean

Answer 30

Do nothing in excess