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Who wrote a book @ the physical world, titled "Physics"
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Aristotle
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What is axiology
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study of values
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Every event in Socrates life was recorded |
True
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What is aesthetics about?
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Beauty
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Who said, "Wonder is the feeling of philosophy. And philosophy is rooted in wonder."
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Plato
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Which philosopher was obsessed with water thinking that it was the building block of everything?
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Thales
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What are the 4 basic elements?
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EArth, wind, fire water
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Who was obsessed with air as the archai?
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Anaimenes
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Name the 4 groups of the Pre-Socratics
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1. Milesians
2. Illiadics 3. Pythagoreans 4. Sophists |
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List 2 Milesians
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1. Thales
2. Anaximander |
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Who said "Philosophy is man's quest for the unity of knowledge."
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Calverson
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What is the term for how things began?
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Cosmogony
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What is the term for the study of what things are made of
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cosmology
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What are the two assumptions of the Pre-Socratics
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1. There is a unity of the cosmos no matter the appearance.
2. Everything is made either from the same stuff or comes from the same source. |
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What is logos
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word or logic
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Presocratics said what about nature
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Everthing comes from nature and not from the gods
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What element did Thales observe 3 differnt forms of?
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Water,
liquid, gas, solid(ice) |
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Who thought everything seeks a state of equilibrium?
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Anaximander
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Which Milesian made the connection between mathematics and the understanding of the universe?
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Anaximenes
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Who was the father of the philosophy of religion?
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Xenophanes
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Who thought that math was the essential building block of the universe?
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Pythagoras
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What philosopher did an experiment of observation using a stick to show that you cannot always believe what your eyes see?
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Des Cartes
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What belief did Parmenides, Des Cartes, and Plato share?
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The key to existence is BEING
Nothing is absolutely nothing |
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Which philosopher said, "There is no "many", there is only one
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Parmenides
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Who said not to rely only the senses but to rely on reasoning?
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Parmenides
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Who was the student of Parmenides
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Zeno
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Explain Zeno's paradox or Paradox of Common Sense
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@ Achilles running a mile
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What school of thought as a pre-socratic was Xenophanes
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Pythagoran
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What did the Milesians look for?
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The archai( arche) or the building blocks of the universe
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Who saw a connection between what I do in my mind and what I observe in the universe?
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Pythagoras
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Who believed in a perfect world, and perfect justice and perfect morality?
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Pythagoras
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Who was the Illiadic philosopher who viewed the world through change?
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Hericalitis
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Who asked, "Is it possible to cross the same river twice?"
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Hericalitis
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Whose symbol was fire or flame?
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Hericalitis, because fire changes everything including metal.
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In chritianity, logos is the equal to
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Christ
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Who claimed to have driven into the heavens where a goddess spoke to him and had his knowledge revealed to him by a divine power?
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Parmenides
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Who was considered to be the first rational philosopher?
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Parmenides
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Who used a reduction to the absurdity?
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Zeno
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Reductio arguements are used in science today |
True
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Who said, "Trust your mind."
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Plato
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Which philosopher said that there was a dilectical struggle between love and strife?
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Epedocles
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Who said that history starts with God?
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Hegle
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Which philosopher notices order in the universe in the form of time?
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Anaxagoras
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Which 2 philosophers proposed the first atomic theory?
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Democritis & Leucippicus
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Who put Socrates on trial
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Sophists
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What is the good life, and who returned the philosophy back to humanity?
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Sophists
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Which philosophers were skeptics, subjectivists, and inialists
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Sophists
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Who said that everything is intropy?
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Anaxamander
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Who was Anaxamander at odds with?
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Thales
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Who always charged for their knowledge?
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Sophists
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True or False
The Greeks had cement |
False.
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What did Socrates always claim?
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He knew nothing
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What does non seclator mean
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does not follow
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What is necessary for Western civilization premises?
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Belief in one God
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What is the term for the study of values?
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Axiology
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List values that are immeasuragle:
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Emotive values, sentimental values
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What is the question of origin?
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Cosmology
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What is the Caluculus of Utilitarianism?
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Sacrifice of one for the greater good of many Basis for communism
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What is the building block towards philosophy?
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Language
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Who said Our knowledge of causeality is apart from reason and experience?
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David Humes
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Who said, "We know that hings exist in time and space apart from reason and experience."
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Emmanual Cante
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Who said, "You are born with intuition."
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Emmanual Cante
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What are the 4 great priniciples of Socrates?
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1. The unexamined life is not worth living.
2. Valid principles of life are based on objective truths 3. Philosophers can provoke the truth by questioning 4. All wrongdoing is based on ignorance. |
