Test over Pre-Socratic, Socrates, and Plato

Question 1

What is philosophy

Answer 1

The sum of a person’s fundamental beliefs and convictions

Question 2

What is the biblical concept of man and how does it differ from man’s concept of man

Answer 2

The biblical concept is that man is created in the image of God versus the thought that man is an animal, a computer, or something to overcome

Question 3

Name four disciplines that are associated with philosophy and explain what they mean

Answer 3

Ethics are a person’s moral standards
Logic is “right thinking”
Esthetics are our perception of beauty and art
Social and Political Theory deals with how we should govern people

Question 4

Name two methods that are used when one philosophizes

Answer 4

Interrogation

Deduction

Question 5

Leucippus and Democritus

Answer 5

Atoms

Question 6

Anaxagorus

Answer 6

Infinite seeds

Question 7

Empedocles

Answer 7

Four elements

Question 8

Zeno

Answer 8

No motion

Question 9

Parmenides

Answer 9

Being

Question 10

Anaximenes

Answer 10

Air

Question 11

Heraclitus

Answer 11

Fire

Question 12

Anaximander

Answer 12

Boundless

Question 13

Pythagoras

Answer 13

Numbers

Question 14

Thales

Answer 14

Water

Question 15

Name two things that developed out of the pre-socratic era

Answer 15

Immortality of the soul

Evolution

Question 16

What were the pre-socratic philosophers attempting to find

Answer 16

Monarchy, Unity in the midst of diversity, and cosmos over chaos

Question 17

T/F: S was known as the “gadfly”

Answer 17

True

Question 18

What is so significant about the Delphic Oracle and S

Answer 18

Oracle proclaimed that S was the most profound from the gods because he knew but he did not know

Question 19

What two sayings is S famous for

Answer 19

Know thyself

The unexamined life is not worth living

Question 20

What was S method of doing philosophy

Answer 20

He interrogated people to reach information (aka he used conversation or questions)

Question 21

What was so unusual about S physical appearance

Answer 21

He went barefoot, wore minimal clothing, and was considered ugly

Question 22

What was S concept of the soul of man

Answer 22

It is distinct from the body and its nature is thinking

Question 23

What was S concept of government

Answer 23

The greatest minds should govern, no election should take place

Question 24

How did S die

Answer 24

He “committed suicide” by drinking poison

Question 25

Define a Sophist

Answer 25

A traveling speaker/philosophical lawyer who took money for their teachings
Hated by Socrates