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51 Cards in this Set
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What pre-socratic philosopher spoke of oxen, horses, and lions?
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Xenophanes
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What is the greek meaning for the word atomos?
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undividable
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What is the greek meaning of the word episteme?
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knowledge
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What is Plato's principle epistemology?
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rationalsim
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Who said "You can't step in the same river twice"?
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Heraclitus
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study of what is real
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metaphysics
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study of what is good
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ethics
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What is good?
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ethics
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What is real?
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metaphysics
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study of what is beautiful
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aesthetics
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epistemology of doubting
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skepticism
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study of ways of knowing things
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epistemology
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what is beautiful?
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aesthetics
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use of senses to obtain knowledge
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empiricism
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How do you know I'll have fun?
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skepticism
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What does the flower smell like?
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empiricism
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How do we know?
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epistemology
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What pre-socratic philosopher demonstrated that motion was impossible?
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Zenos of Ellia
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What philosopher did Augustine Christianize?
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Plato
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What philosopher did Aquinas Christianize?
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Aristotle
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Augustine followed the idea of
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rationalisim
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Plato was a
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rationalist
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Aquinas followed the idea of
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empiricism
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Aristotle was an
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empiricist
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Zeno of illia was a
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rationalist
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Heraclitus was
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empirical
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Parmenides, "being" or "becoming"?
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being
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Heraclitus, "being" or "becoming"?
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becoming
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What were sophists?
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materialsits
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What was Socrates?
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rationalist
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Aristotle and Plato were what?
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metaphysicists
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What were Aristotle's four causes?
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material, efficient, formal, final
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What philosopher founded neo-platonism?
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Plotinus
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Who is a famous cynic?
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Diogenes
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What group believed that unhappiness comes from fighting against fate and that the universe is rational?
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Stoics
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Ataraxia is the absence of what?
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pain
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Almost all materialists are what?
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determinists
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The best life is a life of moderation, avoided pain, and highest possible sensory enjoyment according to who?
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Epicurus
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A skepticist who thought that pain and anguish was caused by believing in something because truth is not absolute.
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Pyrrho of Elis
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Unhappieness comes from fighting fate is the idea of what philosopher in stoicism?
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Zeno of Citium
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Which philosopher believed that the highest degree of reality is that which we percieve with our senses?
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Aristotle
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Empedocles believed nature consisted of what four elements?
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earth, air, fire, water
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Democritus thought that everything was built up of tiny invisible blocks called what?
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atoms
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Democritus was a
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materialist
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According to Democritus, human beings had no immortal
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soul
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Socrates valued what higher than life?
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conscience
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Who said "One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing."?
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Socrates
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Socrates was a
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rationalist
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According to Plato everything is made after a timeless what that is eternal and immutable?
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mold
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According to Plate man is a what?
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dual creature
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Plato believes we have an immortal soul. True or false?
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true
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