THE PHILOSOPHICAL ENTERPRISE

Question 1

Everything that has life needs water

Answer 1

THALES OF MILETUS

Question 2

Boundless (apeiron) - No origin, unlimited, not bounded by time

Answer 2

ANAXMANDER

Question 3

Air is the fundamental principle

Answer 3

ANAXIMENES

Question 4

Number is the first principle

Answer 4

PYTHAGOREANS

Question 5

The world is in constant flux (change)

Answer 5

HERACLITUS

Question 6

Man is the measure of all things (Relativism)

Answer 6

PROTAGORAS

Question 7

Everything was made up of tiny indivisible , and unchangeable particles, which they called atoms

Answer 7

ATOMISTS

Question 8

Manichaeism (Early philosophical influence)

Answer 8

ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO

Question 9

“Fides Quaerens Intellectum” (Faith seeking understanding)

Answer 9

ST. ANSELM OF CANTERBURY

Question 10

Summa Theologiae

Answer 10

ST. THOMAS AQUINAS

Question 11

reliance on reason as the best guide for belief and action

Answer 11

RATIONALISM

Question 12

knowledge can only be acquired through experience

Answer 12

EMPIRICISM

Question 13

2 SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT

Answer 13

RATIONALISM AND EMPIRICISM

Question 14

Believed that the mind is “tabula rasa” (empty slate)

Answer 14

JOHN LOCKE

Question 15

Believed that thinking is tantamount to existing

Answer 15

RENE DESCARTES

Question 16

focus on the first principle of the world

Answer 16

COSMOCENTRIC

Question 17

Inspired by the Bible

Answer 17

THEOCENTRIC

Question 18

reasoning on man himself

Answer 18

ANTHROPOCENTRIC