Midterm

Question 1

Dualism

Answer 1

Two opposing forces clashing against one another

Question 2

Socrates read and wrote about every ancient text

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Meno was a philosopher who could not remember anything from his previous life

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Greece and Turkey were the birthplaces of ancient Greek philosophers

Answer 4

True

Question 5

we don’t really know what philosophers back then look like

Answer 5

False

Question 6

Christian Philosophers used Greek Philosophy

Answer 6

True

Question 7

Thales and Pythagoras were mathematicians who developed important math

Answer 7

True

Question 8

Pre Socratic philosophers were Heraclitus, Parmenides and Thales

Answer 8

True

Question 9

Socrates viewed philosophy as a way to avoid thinking about death

Answer 9

False

Question 10

Plato is the main source of info for Socrates

Answer 10

True

Question 11

Socrates tried to escape prison many times

Answer 11

False

Question 12

Parmenides and change

Answer 12

things change but slowly so we don’t notice

Question 13

“you cant step into the same river twice”

Answer 13

Parmenides

Question 14

why was Socrates called the wisest man on earth?

Answer 14

he said he knew nothing

Question 15

The golden mean of a soldier

Answer 15

stay with group and fight as a team

Question 16

Plato’s forms

Answer 16

designs that gave things their shape
abstract ideas in Gods mind
eternal and unchanging

Question 17

Cebes version of the soul

Answer 17

a coat that would eventually wear out after a lot of use

Question 18

What were the charges against Socrates?

Answer 18

corruption of the youth, did not believe in the gods

Question 19

Socrates said that justice is doing good to friends and harming enemies

Answer 19

False

Question 20

Women can be soldiers (from the republic)

Answer 20

True

Question 21

Farming is an occupation for lower class (Aristotle)

Answer 21

False

Question 22

The plot of a drama is the least important (Aristotle)

Answer 22

False

Question 23

God is a compassionate being that moved the planets (Aristotle)

Answer 23

False

Question 24

Sophists were bad because they never charged for lessons

Answer 24

False

Question 25

Catharsis

Answer 25

Releasing pent up emotions to feel better

Question 26

Children need a ethics code (Aristotle)

Answer 26

False

Question 27

All living things have a Telos (Aristotle)

Answer 27

True

Question 28

Individuation

Answer 28

many things are created out of one thing

Question 29

Women are inferior to men (Plato)

Answer 29

False

Question 30

The world shows no change (Parmenides)

Answer 30

True

Question 31

A Sophism is obviously so true you have to believe it

Answer 31

False

Question 32

Aristotle didn’t know how to understand non existing ideas (Santa Claus)

Answer 32

True

Question 33

Universals (redness, sweetness) can never exist in themselves

Answer 33

False

Question 34

The soul is the spirit which is freed when we die (Aristotle)

Answer 34

True

Question 35

St. Thomas Aquinas used Aristotle’s system

Answer 35

True

Question 36

An important argument from Aristotle’s theory of logic

Answer 36

syllogism

Question 37

Why did Aristotle think children had no virtue?

Answer 37

they didn’t have a history of goodness

Question 38

Phronesis

Answer 38

Wisdom

Question 39

The main question in Plato’s Euthyphro

Answer 39

What is Justice?

Question 40

The form of the Thing….

Answer 40

does not exist outside of the thing

Question 41

Accident

Answer 41

a property of someone (tall, red, blonde)

Question 42

Plato and Aristotle believed democracy lead to…….

Answer 42

chaos

Question 43

The three types of Aristotle’s friends

Answer 43

useful, fun, and true

Question 44

the four causes of the a thing according to Aristotle

Answer 44

form
material
purpose
maker