Quiz

Question 1

When and where was Aristotle born

Answer 1

384 BC in Thrace, Greece

Question 2

What subjects did Aristotle teach

Answer 2

Logic rhetoric ethics biology

Question 3

Why book did he write for his son

Answer 3

Nicomachean Ethics

Question 4

Who is Aristotle most famous pupil

Answer 4

Alexander the Great

Question 5

What did Alexander the Great get from his mentor Aristotle

Answer 5

A passion for unity

Question 6

Name and nickname of aristotles school

Answer 6

Lyceum

“The peripatelic school” (walking around school)

Question 7

What happened to Aristotle towards the end of his life

Answer 7

He was charged with impiety, fled to chaleis, and died of natural causes

Question 8

What word is used to describe Aristotle’s view of logic

Answer 8

Organon -an instrument of all science

Question 9

What is the difference between an argument and a statement?

Answer 9

Arguments are not true or false, but valid or invalid. Statements may be either true or false.

Question 10

The chief principle of Logic is what ?

Answer 10

Law of Noncontradiction

Question 11

In the Greek language what two ideas are connected in the term Aletheia!

Answer 11

Truth and reality

Question 12

What concept did Aristotle develop that is vital to the understanding of language and knowledge

Answer 12

Categories

Question 13

What two ideas are associated with classification

Answer 13

Compare (similarities) and contrast (differences)

Question 14

What are aristotles nine categories

Answer 14

Quantity 
Quality
Relations 
Place 
Date 
Posture 
Possession 
Action
Passivity

Question 15

What is the difference between between the substance and accidens of a thing

Answer 15

The substance is essential nature, while its accidens are its external, perceivable qualities.

Question 16

In what ways did Aristotle break with his teacher Plato

Answer 16

Aristotle postulated that that there is no idea realm where forms, ideas exists in and of themselves but is combined in form and matter.

Question 17

Explain entelechy

Answer 17

Entelechy represents the form of a thing that enables a thing to become what it becomes

Question 18

What was aristotles answer to the problem of infinite regress

Answer 18

Actuality must precede potentiality. This is the concept of the unmoved mover, eternal, immortal, immutable

Question 19

Aristotle was a famous alumni of whose school

Answer 19

Platos academy

Question 20

What are his four causes

Answer 20

Formal: that which determines what a thing is (sculptor’s idea for a sculpture)
Material: that out of which the thing is made (marble)
Efficient: that by which a thing is made (sculptor)
Final: that for which a thing is made, it’s purpose (decoration of a garden)