Philosophy Lesson 1: Doing Philosophy

Question 1

Who said “The unexamined life is not worth living”?

Answer 1

Socrates

Question 2

Lived and died teaching the truth to the youth of Athens.

Answer 2

Socrates

Question 3

The basic teachings of Socrates are attributed to the writings of who?

Answer 3

Plato

Question 4

The Socratic method of the way of eliciting the truth by question and answer.

Answer 4

Elenchus

Question 5

The eternal quest for the truth.

Answer 5

Philosophy

Question 6

It is to know that you do not know.

Answer 6

Docta ignorantia

Question 7

Virtue of perfection

Answer 7

Arete

Question 8

Philosophy comes from what Greek words?

Answer 8

Phylos which means “to love” and sophia which means “wisdom”

Question 9

This term is often defined as “love of wisdom”

Answer 9

Philosophy

Question 10

Who introduced the term “philosopher”?

Answer 10

Pythagoras

Question 11

Who said “all men by nature desire to know”?

Answer 11

Aristotle

Question 12

Our desire for knowledge must lead to a life-long process, in search of practical wisdom or ___?

Answer 12

phronesis

Question 13

A life of real happiness

Answer 13

Eudaimonia

Question 14

Something that emerges when we are thrown into a situation.

Answer 14

Insight

Question 15

The process of arriving at an insight is called what?

Answer 15

Abstraction

Question 16

Refers to analysis of concepts

Answer 16

Abstraction

Question 17

Analysis is derived from two Greek words namely ___ and ___

Answer 17

Ana which means up and lusis which means dissolution

Question 18

Refers to the process directed at deriving clear concepts about reality.

Answer 18

Primary reflection

Question 19

Contains the most systematic exposition of Gabriel Marcel’s thought.

Answer 19

The Mystery of Being

Question 20

Makes us see clarity in things.

Answer 20

Primary reflection

Question 21

Marcel says that this term is “not exercised on things that are not worth the trouble reflecting about”.

Answer 21

Reflection

Question 22

Invites us to go deep into ourselves. We see the truth that is inside our inner selves.

Answer 22

Secondary reflection

Question 23

IS the realization of the unity of the situation and the individual which provides us with a holistic view of reality.

Answer 23

Secondary reflection

Question 24

From the Greek word “logos”, which has a variety of meanings including word, thought, idea, argument, account, reason, or principle.

Answer 24

Logic

Question 25

Comes from the Greek words “episteme” which can be translated as “knowledge” while “logos” can be translated as “argument” or “reason”.

Answer 25

Epistemology

Question 26

It is primarily concerned with what we can know about the world and how we can know it.

Answer 26

Epistemology

Question 27

from the Greek word “meta” which means beyond while “physikon” which means nature.

Answer 27

Metaphysics

Question 28

Study of the nature of reality, of what exists in this world, what it is like, and how it is ordered.

Answer 28

Metaphysics

Question 29

Cognitive branches of Philosophy

Answer 29

Logic, Epistemology, Metaphysics

Question 30

from the Greek word “ethos” which means character and also called moral philosophy. the discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad and morally right and wrong.

Answer 30

Ethics

Question 31

Is the study of fundamental questions about the state, government, politics, liberty, justice, property, rights, law, and the enforcement of a legal code by authority.

Answer 31

Politics

Question 32

from the Greek word “aesthetikos” which means perceptive of things and also spelled esthetics, the philosophical study of beauty and taste.

Answer 32

Aesthetics

Question 33

It is closely related to the philosophy of art, which me concerned with the nature of art and the concepts in terms of which individual works of art are interpreted and evaluated.

Answer 33

Aesthetics

Question 34

normative branches of philosophy

Answer 34

Ethics, politics, aesthetics