Preface

Question 1

theory, or study, or rationalization of something

also means “word” in Greek, so it involves the act of speaking, or setting forth an idea in a clear manner.

designates a certain kind of thinking about the world, a kind of logical analysis that places things in the context of reason and explains them with the pure force of thought

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Logos

Question 2

overs of wis- dom (love = philo),

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Philosophers

Question 3

had the advantage of creating a whole social world in which all acts had meaning.

They had the disadvantage of creating static societies, of resisting innovation, and, many would say, of being false.

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Myths

Question 4

a certain way of thinking that placed the world in the con- text of its supernatural origins

are not only explanatory but also
morally exemplary and ritualistically instructive

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Mythos

Question 5

are explained by other natural phenomena, not by supernatural events in “dream time”—the time of the ancient gods. In that case, Greece truly is the cradle of Western philosophy.

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Natural phenomena

Question 6

Why Greece?

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there was a very
productive contact between ancient Greece and the cultures of the eastern Mediterranean
region—Persia, Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, Cyprus, southern Italy, and Egypt, among others

a. Productive contact
b. Well-travelled group
c. Cultures encountered
d. No priestly classes of censors
e. Fertile imagination
f. Meditated on philosophical issues (male)
g. Sensitivity

Question 7

on the other hand, deals with problems that require a speculative rather than an experimental approach.

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philosophy

Question 7

deals with problems that can be addressed experimentally by subsuming the observable events that puzzle us under the dominion of natural laws and by showing how these laws are related causally to those events.

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science

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a. Deficient in capacity for sublimation
b. Denied by Chauvinistic male writers
c. Systematically eliminated
i. Manipulated by patriarchy

Question 8

Importance of Women

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a. Impact on the contemporary philosophy
b. If not excluded, History would’ve been:
i. Richer
ii. Deeper
iii. More compassionate
iv. More Interesting
(where are you going)

Question 9

theory of being

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ontology

Question 10

theory of knowledge)

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epsitemology

Question 11

theory of value (etics and moral philo)

Answer 11

axiology