Midterm Vocab Study Guide

Question 1

Epistemology

Answer 1

the study of knowledge; what is true and how to know it

Question 2

metaphysics

Answer 2

the study of being; reality and its governing principles

Question 3

philosophical anthropology

Answer 3

the study of the human person; what is the relationship between body and soul

Question 4

ethics

Answer 4

the study of human actions; what is good for humanity and the basis of attaining it

Question 5

academy

Answer 5

school founded by Aristotle, 1st peripatetic school

Question 6

daimon

Answer 6

a divine principle that lives within man

Question 7

philosophy

Answer 7

love of wisdom

Question 8

dualism

Answer 8

two kinds of reality (be able to talk about plato’s metaphysical and epistemological view of dualism for short answer/essay)

Question 9

Socratic method

Answer 9

never wrote anything or directly instructed

Question 10

eudaimonia

Answer 10

“good spirit”, ultimate happiness

Question 11

myth

Answer 11

explaining the unfamiliar in familiar language

Question 12

apriori

Answer 12

innate knowledge

Question 13

aposteriori

Answer 13

knowledge gained through learning

Question 14

particular

Answer 14

many-ness: a single instance of nature, passing, changing, unknowable

Question 15

sophists

Answer 15

teachers

Question 16

telos

Answer 16

purpose

Question 17

Plato’s metaphysic

Answer 17

dualistic view of reality (there are two kinds of reality) and forms, particulars can be categorized and are passing/changing/not knowable, universals are eternal/unchanging/perfect/how we classify particulars and exist independently of our minds and so are objective

Question 18

plato’s epistemology

Answer 18

apriori vs aposteriori, the soul once lived in the realm of the forms, all knowledge is a priority but forgotten at birth, knowledge is not based on the senses (senses are relative)

Question 19

plato’s idealism

Answer 19

a philosophy that holds reality is ultimately contained in ideas rather than the real world, ideas exist outside the mindp

Question 20

plato’s anthropology

Answer 20

soul is trapped in the body, soul rules over the body, it is pure and ordered, soul is immortal and once lived in the realm of the forms, longs to return, tri-partite soul (logos, appetitive, thumos)

Question 21

plato’s ethics

Answer 21

eudaimonia, human flourishing is the highest aim of moral thought and conduct, man’s greatest good is a well ordered life which leads to inner harmony,

Question 22

four platonic virtues

Answer 22

wisdom, courage, moderation, justice (justice is the greatest)