Module 2 - Foundations Of Western Philosophy: Ancient Greece

Question 1

Which word did pre-Socratic philosophers use to describe the energy, order, and function of the universe?

Answer 1

Logos

Question 2

The Greek word for “atom” means indivisible

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Which is the Greek word for the soul?

Answer 3

Psyche

Question 4

Which did the ancients use to explain natural phenomena?

Answer 4

Gods

Question 5

Pre-Socratic philosophers believed it necessary to distinguish between appearance and…

Answer 5

Reality

Question 6

Socrates believed true knowledge was found where?

Answer 6

In each person

Question 7

When making decisions, the politicians of Socrates’s day thought in terms of…

Answer 7

What works

Question 8

Socrates’s primary teaching method was to ask questions

Answer 8

True

Question 9

Who were the supposedly wise teachers of Socrates’s day?

Answer 9

Sophists

Question 10

Which Greek word describes the skills necessary to apply one’s convictions?

Answer 10

Techne

Question 11

Which word defines the theory of knowledge?

Answer 11

Epistemology

Question 12

The name of Plato’s school was the Lyceum

Answer 12

False

Question 13

How many realities did Plato believe existed?

Answer 13

Two

Question 14

According to Plato, true knowledge is found where?

Answer 14

The metaphysical

Question 15

Plato described knowledge as being found in the…

Answer 15

Forms

Question 16

Who was Aristotle’s teacher?

Answer 16

Plato

Question 17

Aristotle tutored Alexander the Great

Answer 17

True

Question 18

Aristotle’s school was known as the…

Answer 18

Lyceum

Question 19

What cutting edge resource did Aristotle develop at his school?

Answer 19

A library

Question 20

Some think of Aristotle as the father of…

Answer 20

Science

Question 21

Which philosophy says pleasure is good and pain is bad?

Answer 21

Hedonism

Question 22

Epicurus’s school was the first of its kind to allow women to attend

Answer 22

True

Question 23

What does a stoic seek to control?

Answer 23

His emotions

Question 24

What was the name of Epicurus’s school?

Answer 24

The garden

Question 25

Who founded the school of thought known as stoicism?

Answer 25

Zeno

Question 26

Which philosopher believed the only thing that never changes is change?

Answer 26

Heraclitus

Question 27

Which philosopher believed nothing ever changes?

Answer 27

Parmenides

Question 28

Which Philosopher argued that everything is made of water?

Answer 28

Thales

Question 29

Which philosopher first imagined the universe was built from tiny, unseen particles?

Answer 29

Leucippus

Question 30

Which philosopher furthered the idea that the universe was made from tiny, unseen particles and identified them as atoms?

Answer 30

Democritus

Question 31

Which characteristic keeps a student from cheating on a test?

Answer 31

Virtue

Question 32

A burglar accidentally breaking into the police station instead of the jewelry store next door is an example of what?

Answer 32

Irony

Question 33

According to Socrates, why would a person choose to turn in a large sum of cash found on the ground?

Answer 33

No one willingly chooses evil

Question 34

Which view holds that one opinion is as good as another?

Answer 34

Relativism

Question 35

Who believed it was right to charge education fees?

Answer 35

Sophists

Question 36

Why did Plato develop his theory of knowledge?

Answer 36

To protect it from opinion

Question 37

Which theory of morality holds that good choices bring good consequences and bad choices bring bad consequences?

Answer 37

Instrumental theory of morality

Question 38

Which does the functionalist theory of morality seek to bring to each person?

Answer 38

True happiness

Question 39

According to Plato, who were the only ones who could understand the forms?

Answer 39

The enlightened

Question 40

Which depiction did Plato use to describe someone who discovers pure truth?

Answer 40

A man coming out of a cave

Question 41

How many levels of reality did Aristotle believe in?

Answer 41

One

Question 42

A carved wooden statue demonstrates…

Answer 42

Form

Question 43

According to Aristotle, what is the basic building material of all things?

Answer 43

Matter

Question 44

To use a saw to cut wood is to demonstrate the saws…

Answer 44

Final cause

Question 45

Which describes a reality that cannot be seen, touched, smelled, heard, or tasted?

Answer 45

Metaphysical

Question 46

Which philosophical perspective might hinder one’s ability to fall in love?

Answer 46

Skepticism

Question 47

Which philosophy explains how to avoid becoming emotionally involved in daily drama in the news, politics, and social media?

Answer 47

Stoicism

Question 48

Which philosophical school would tell one to stop eating too many donuts because it could damage one’s health?

Answer 48

Epicureanism

Question 49

A person who doesn’t care if he gets in trouble or disturbs his neighbors while throwing a party is a(n)…

Answer 49

Hedonist

Question 50

Stoicism causes a person to be…

Answer 50

Self-controlled