Chapter 2

Question 1

“… With the eye of my soul, I saw”

Answer 1

Augustine

Question 2

The trinity

Answer 2

Augustine

Question 3

Discourse on method

Answer 3

Descartes

Question 4

“I am certain that I am a thing which thinks”

Answer 4

Descartes

Question 5

Treatise on human nature

Answer 5

Hume

Question 6

“Truths of reasoning are necessary”

Answer 6

Leibniz

Question 7

“I know that I am”

Answer 7

Descartes

Question 8

“… The mind is a white paper”

Answer 8

Locke

Question 9

“… It is sometimes proved to me that those senses are deceptive”

Answer 9

Descartes

Question 10

Essay concerning human understanding

Answer 10

Locke

Question 11

Against the academics

Answer 11

Augustine

Question 12

Treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge

Answer 12

Berkeley

Question 13

“… Accept nothing as true which I did not clearly recognize to be so”

Answer 13

Descartes

Question 14

Critique of pure reason

Answer 14

Kant

Question 15

“… Some evil genius… Has employed his… Energies in deceiving me”

Answer 15

Descartes

Question 16

(Descartes) “distanced us from the philosophy of existence”

Answer 16

John Paul II

Question 17

Confessions

Answer 17

Augustine

Question 18

Meditations on first philosophy

Answer 18

John Paul II

Question 19

“God who is… The fountain of truth

Answer 19

Berkeley

Question 20

“… Cogito… Agito… Factito”

Answer 20

Augustine

Question 21

Epistemology is based upon the Greek word meaning:

Answer 21

Knowledge

Question 22

The sophists believed that all knowledge is objective T/F

Answer 22

True

Question 23

The sophists were the first paid teachers T/F

Answer 23

True

Question 24

The word “sophist” means:

Answer 24

Wise men

Question 25

Socrates believed that there is absolute and certain truth T/F

Answer 25

True

Question 26

Plato claimed that knowledge is placed in the soul prior to birth T/F

Answer 26

True

Question 27

The concept that knowledge is placed in the soul prior to birth is called the _________ theory

Answer 27

Recollection

Question 28

In platos "_________ of the cave" the light represented truth

Answer 28

Allegory

Question 29

Augustine was born in Roman North Africa T/F

Answer 29

True

Question 30

Augustine was a member of the _________ sect cult for 9 years

Answer 30

Manichean

Question 31

Who of the following influence Augustine:

Answer 31

Cicero

Question 32

In a work directed against the teachers or academics, Augustine opposed their:

Answer 32

Skepticism

Question 33

In this mathematical equation, Augustine saw truth:

Answer 33

7+3=10

Question 34

Augustine apparently saw the _______ as the "highest reasoning power"

Answer 34

Mind

Question 35

In a writing, Augustine called these as part of the "triad" (I) being, (II) knowledge, (III) will, (IV) intellect, (V) spirit

Answer 35

I, II, III

Question 36

Descartes was educated by the Jesuits T/F

Answer 36

True

Question 37

In his book, discourse on ________, Descartes stated to "accept nothing as true"

Answer 37

Method

Question 38

Descartes' doubt led to an epistemological ___________

Answer 38

Skepticism

Question 39

Which of the following is true of Descartes' writings?

Answer 39

All of the above ("senses are deceptive", "I now dream", "some evil genius"

Question 40

Descartes' doubts also included the existence of God T/F

Answer 40

False

Question 41

Descartes declared "cogito, ___________"

Answer 41

Ergo sum

Question 42

"Cogito, ergo sum" came from meditation on _____________

Answer 42

First philosophy

Question 43

____________ is the belief that one is the only person in the universe

Answer 43

Solipsism

Question 44

Descartes believed that the source of knowledge is reason T/F

Answer 44

False

Question 45

The empiricists accepted Descartes demand for ______________

Answer 45

Certainty

Question 46

Which of the following is true of John Paul II's critique on Descartes? (I) he inaugurated an anthropocentric shift (II) he distanced us from the philosophy of existence (IV) he turned his back in metaphysics

Answer 46

I, II, IV

Question 47

He spoke of contingent and necessary truth

Answer 47

Leibniz

Question 48

The "tabula rasa" theory was proposed by Locke T/F

Answer 48

True

Question 49

Locke was a friend of Newton and was educated at Cambridge T/F

Answer 49

False

Question 50

Kant developed the concept called "unity of _________"

Answer 50

Consciousness

Question 51

Explain the difference between the theories of knowledge of Plato and Locke

Answer 51

Plato-collection | Locke-theory that all human knowledge comes from our 5 senses and we will never know more than what our senses tell us