Chapter 1, 2, 3

Question 1

Whis is a philosopher, in the original sense of the word?

Answer 1

A lover and pursuer of wisdom, regardless of the subject’s matter.

Question 2

Which is a common characteristic of philosophical questions?

Answer 2

They involve real-life ethical dilemmas

Question 3

In philosophy, what is an argument?

Answer 3

Giving a reason for accepting it

Question 4

What fallacy is it when an argument is against the person rather than the person’s beliefs?

Answer 4

Argumentum ad Hominem

Question 5

“What we said was X, but out opponent acts as if we had said Y!” What fallacy does this most clearly illustrate?

Answer 5

Straw man

Question 6

What fallacy is it when an argument offers only two choices when in fact more options exists?

Answer 6

False Dilemma

Question 7

Which is the branch of philosophy that studies issues concerning art and the value judgment about art?

Answer 7

Aesthetics

Question 8

Which of the following branches of philosophy does not involve questions related to values?

Answer 8

Metaphysics

Question 9

Philosophy once included modern disciplines like physics and biology

Answer 9

True

Question 10

Philosophical questions are concrete and factual

Answer 10

False

Question 11

Giving and rebutting arguments is the most basic philosophical activity

Answer 11

True

Question 12

The most famous “reductio ad absurdum” in history of philosophy is St. Anselm’s ontological proof the God exists

Answer 12

True

Question 13

Philosophy questions tend to fall into five areas.

Answer 13

True

Question 14

Are and beauty are primarily topics within social philosophy.

Answer 14

False

Question 15

Political philosophy is totally separate from the values subject matter of moral philosophy.

Answer 15

False

Question 16

One of the side benefits of philosophy is better logical and critical thinking skills.

Answer 16

True

Question 17

Which philosopher quoted, “Nobody steps in the same river twice: it’s never the same river and it’s never the same person.” ?

Answer 17

Heraclitus

Question 18

Which philosopher quoted,”What then is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I wish it to one that asks, I know not?”

Answer 18

Augustine of Hippo

Question 19

Which philosopher quoted, “‘Yes’ and ‘No’ are the two words that require the most thought”?

Answer 19

Pythagoras

Question 20

Which philosopher quoted, “If you aren’t content with what you have, you wan’t be content with what you would like to have?”

Answer 20

Socrates

Question 21

Which philosopher quoted, “Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.”?

Answer 21

Karl Marx

Question 22

Which philosopher quoted, “Death is of no concern, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist”?

Answer 22

Epicurus

Question 23

Which philosopher quoted, “ Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants”?

Answer 23

Epicurus

Question 24

Which philosopher quoted,”man is the measure of all things”?

Answer 24

Protagoras

Question 25

Which philosoper quoted, "The highest result of education is tolerance."

Answer 25

Helen Keller

Question 25

Which philosopher quotes, "Motion being eternal, the first mover, if there is but one, will be eternal also"?

Answer 25

Aristotle

Question 26

Which philosopher quoted, "You cannot know what is not, nor can you express it. What can be thought of and what can be- they are the same"?

Answer 26

Parmenides

Question 27

Which philosopher quoted, " I don't worry about the problem. I worry about the solution"?

Answer 27

O'Neal

Question 28

Which philosopher quoted,"The safest way of not being miserable is to not expect to be very happy"?

Answer 28

Schopenhauer

Question 29

Which philosopher quoted, "Everything that exists in your life, does so because of two things: something you did or something you didn't do"?

Answer 29

Einstein

Question 30

Which philosopher quoted, "One and God make a majority"?

Answer 30

Douglass

Question 31

Which philosopher quoted, "We never understand our home until we leave it?"

Answer 31

Holderlin

Question 32

Which philosopher quoted, "Although good can exist without evil, evil cannot exist without good"?

Answer 32

Thomas Aquinas

Question 33

Which philosopher quoted, "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced"?

Answer 33

James Baldwin

Question 34

Which philosopher quoted, "A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect"?

Answer 34

W.E.B Du Bois

Question 35

Which philosopher quotes, " I think; therefore I am"?

Answer 35

Rene Decartes

Question 36

What does the branch of philosophy called metaphysics study?

Answer 36

Ultimate Reality

Question 37

What does the branch of philosophy called epistemology study?

Answer 37

Knowledge

Question 38

What are Thales, Anaximenes, and Anaximander collectively known as?

Answer 38

The Milesians

Question 39

According to Theano, what did Pythagoras claim?

Answer 39

An intimacy between things and numbers

Question 40

What was the essence of reality for Heraclitus?

Answer 40

Change

Question 41

What is the reality according to a follower of Parmenides?

Answer 41

Being does not change

Question 42

What is the cause of change for Empedocies?

Answer 42

Love and strife

Question 43

What did Anaxagoras do?

Answer 43

He introduced the matter/mide distinction to philosophy

Question 44

What did the Atomists do?

Answer 44

They held that all things are composed of physical atoms

Question 45

Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that deals with questions about reality.

Answer 45

Fals e

Question 46

The Milesians all proposed material view of reality - air, fire, and water - fundamental kind of stuff.

Answer 46

True

Question 47

The term "metaphysics" comes from Pythagoras.

Answer 47

False

Question 48

According to Aristotle, Pythagoras constructed natural bodies out of numbers

Answer 48

True

Question 49

Heraclitus thought that opposites, like young and old, were in some sense a harmonious union in which he called logos.

Answer 49

true

Question 50

Zeno tried to Parmenides' theory that reality is One.

Answer 50

False

Question 51

Each different kind of substance has its own corresponding kind of particle and that each substance contains particle of every other kind was a doctrine of Anaxagoras

Answer 51

true

Question 52

The atomists believe strictly accordance with physical laws and did not believe in chance or free will

Answer 52

True

Question 53

Metaphysics is?

Answer 53

Ultimate reality.