Exam 1 Flashcards
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According to Diogenes Laërtius: The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers Book VI: The Cynics: Life of Antisthenes he [Antisthenes] stated “that those who wish to be immortal ought to live [how]?”
Piously; justly
According to Antisthenes “the wise man will be guided in his public acts not by [what] but by the [what]?”
The established laws; law of virtue
According to Diogenes Laërtius: The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers Book VI: The Cynics: Life of Antisthenes he [Antisthenes] stated “the wise man alone knew what…?”
Objects deserved love
According To Antisthenes virtue is all but what?
Conformity
According to Diogenes Laërtius: The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers Book VI: The Cynics: Life of Antisthenes he [Antisthenes] stated “one should attend to one’s [what], for they are the first persons to detect one’s errors?”
Enemies
According to Diogenes Laërtius: The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers Book VI: The Cynics: Life of Antisthenes he [Antisthenes] stated “[what] is the same in a man as in a woman?”
Virtue
According to Xenophanes (c. 580-485 B.C.) what is his concept of God?
There is only One God - “The one and the all” who “is not in form like unto mortals” who “sees all over, thinks all over, and hears all over,” who “without toil [sways] all things by the thought of his mind,” who “[resides] ever in the self-same place, moving not at all.”
According to Heraclitus: Soul is Fire (Fragments) “to souls it is death to become [what], to water death to become [what], but from earth water is born, and from water soul.”
Water: Earth
According to Parmenides (c. 504-456 B.C.) what term would best describe his universal principle of the cosmos?
Changelessness
According to Anaximander (Fragments) “the moon appears to be waxing and waning by turns according to whether the passages are being blocked or opened - The circle of the sun is twenty-seven times that of the earth; that of the moon eighteen times - The [what] is the highest body and the lowest are the circles of [what]?”
Sun: Fixed stars
According to Protagoras (c. 480-410 B.C.) upon what does “human survival” depend?
Mutual cooperation in society
According to Leucippus (c. 460 B.C.) & Democritus (c. 460-360 B.C.) what are know to be “small tiny absolutely hard and completely solid bodies that cannot be physically divided” which is the basis for their cosmic system?
Atome
According to Anaximenes (Fragments) “the heavenly bodies came to be from [what] because of the moisture arising from it?”
Earth
Within the thought of Zeno of Elea (c. 490-430 B.C.) who and what is he attempting to support?
Parmenides: Changelessness
According to Anaxagoras’ (c. 500-428 B.C.) Fragments what “is the cause of all motion?”
Nous
According to Heraclitus (c. 540-480 B.C.) what term would best describe his universal principle of the cosmos?
Flux
According to Thales (Fragments) Hippolytus states “[he] is said to have been the first to pursue natural philosophy - he said the beginning and ending of the world was [what]… And this is [what], which has neither beginning nor end?”
Water: God
According to Anaximenes (c. 585-525 B.C.) what is his universal principle of the monistic cosmos?
Air
According to Heraclitus (c. 540-480 B.C.) which is not a principle of his philosophical system?
Nous
According to Leucippus & Democritus: Human Perception (Fragments) “by convention… there is sweet, by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold; by convention color; but in reality” [there is what]?
Atoms and void
What is not a thought of Empedocles (c. 490-435 B.C.)?
All Eternity - four different kinds of Substance have existed - Earth, Aether, Fire & Water.
According to Thales (c. 625-545 B.C.) what is his universal principle of the monistic cosmos?
Water
According to Pythagoras (c. 578-510 B.C.) all things within the cosmos can be delineated by what term?
Numbers
According to Parmenides: The Way of Truth (Fragments) “[i] what-is is ungenerated and imperishable, [ii] a whole of one kind, [iii] unperturbed and [iv] complete… for mighty Necessity holds it in the bounds of a limit, which confines it round about… Yet since there is a final limit, it is complete, in every direction.” What geometric shape best describes of what Parmenides speaks?
Sphere
