PHIL-101
This will test your general knowledge of philosophers of the earliest centuries. It includes quotes, terms, and general knowledge material.
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- Means "the love of knowledge" Asks the question, "how do things work?" Desire for knowledge
- Considered to be the 1st philosopher; approached questions in an irrational, objective way
- What was the underlying substance Thales was talking about?
- Belief that all things are ultimately one
- mathematician Believed all things are number and that math is the key to understanding reality
- Who introduced the concept of form?
- What did Heraclitus say is the central fact about reality and claimed that if there was none, then we would cease to exist?
- What element did Heraclitus say best represents reality?
- Heraclitus says that to be wise, one must be aware of ________ and not fight against it.
- Heraclitus was a __________.
- This philosopher claims that change only APPEARS to happen; change is not real
- What was Parmenides' key assumption of being?
- This philosopher made paradoxes to support Parmenides
- What is the argument pattern that Zeno's paradoxes follows?
- What is the message of the parable of the millet seed?
- Similarity between all Sophists?
- Belief that there is no objective truth
- Sophists believed this to be the most important form of education
- What is rhetoric?
- True by nature; we cannot change them; not a matter of opinion Example: Drinking poison is bad for your health
- Ture by custom/ habit; things we can change Example: Religion, politics, etc.
- A sophist Embraced individual relativism Each person decides what is true/false, real/unreal, good/evil,...
- A sophist Justice is determined by society; the powerful make societal rules Might Makes Right
- A sophist Believed moral rules are made by the weak
- An objectivist Believed our ideas can only get closer and closer to the truth Fought in Sparta/ Athens war
- Did Socrates believe it was better to be proven wrong or to prove wrong
- Why was Socrates wiser than most others?
- The process by which we gain knowledge
- "The many are related by the one"
- "Math is the language of nature/ reality."
- "Form is the application of limit to the unlimited."
- "Reality is indivisible."
- "Knowledge is virtue; Ignorance is vice."
- "The unexamined life is not worth living."
- "The good person cannot be harmed."
- "You cannot step into the same river twice."
- "All things are in flux."
- "All things are God. All things are divine. We are all part of one organism-God."
- "Nothing ever changes; change is unreal. The changes we think we see are illusions." Being is absolute.
- "Man is the measure of all things."
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