The Greek Philosophers, Socrates onwards review

Question 1

He thought there were two kinds of worlds: one filled with mistakes, the other with perfect ideals.

Answer 1

Plato

Question 2

He did not think democracy was a good idea for the most part.

Answer 2

Socrates

Question 3

He is called the “Father of Western Philosophy”.

Answer 3

Socrates

Question 4

He was, “the first who brought philosophy down from the heavens, placed it in cities, introduced it into families, and obliged it to examine into life and morals, and good and evil”

Answer 4

Socrates

Question 5

The Oracle of Delphi said he was the wisest man in Athens.

Answer 5

Socrates

Question 6

He is credited with saying, “the unexamined life is not worth living”.

Answer 6

Socrates

Question 7

He was sentenced to death by the Athenian authorities.

Answer 7

Socrates

Question 8

He left no writings.

Answer 8

Socrates

Question 9

He thought Athens should be ruled by “Philosopher Kings”, people knowledgeable about what constitutes good leadership.

Answer 9

Socrates

Question 10

He was a teacher, sculptor, soldier, academic and philosopher.

Answer 10

Socrates

Question 11

Another philosopher said of him, “the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to ——”.

Answer 11

Plato

Question 12

He founded the school, the Academy.

Answer 12

Plato

Question 13

He mistakenly believed that women’s wombs were an animal and moved freely in the body.

Answer 13

Plato

Question 14

He did not trust the sentences; everything must be known through reason.

Answer 14

Plato

Question 15

He was a student of Socrates.

Answer 15

Plato

Question 16

A distinguishing part of his thinking was linked to forms, unchanging, eternal, perfect ideas.

Answer 16

Plato

Question 17

He made an analogy about our inabilities to understand reality with his “Analogy of the Cave.”

Answer 17

Plato

Question 18

His followers were called peripatetics because they discussed and learned while they walked.

Answer 18

Aristotle

Question 19

He taught Alexander the Great.

Answer 19

Aristotle

Question 20

He named 495 species of animal.

Answer 20

Aristotle

Question 21

He is regarded as an empiricist.

Answer 21

Aristotle

Question 22

He founded the school, the Lyceum.

Answer 22

Aristotle

Question 23

He observed and knew his world first through his senses and then later used reason.

Answer 23

Aristotle

Question 24

He contributed to the development of logic, psychology, mathematics, rhetoric, politics, biology, physics and ethics.

Answer 24

Aristotle

Question 25

Who focused on the “golden mean”, the desired middle of two extremes.

Answer 25

Aristotle