Exam 1 (ch 1, 3-5)

Question 1

Who is a philosopher, in the original sense of the world?

Answer 1

A lover and pursuer of wisdom, regardless of the subject 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 fallacy is it when an argument offers only two choices when in fact more options exist?

Answer 5

False Dilemma

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Metaphysics

Question 7

Philosophy once include modern disciplines like physics and biology

Answer 7

True

Question 8

Philosophical questions are concrete and factual.

Answer 8

False

Question 9

Giving and rebutting arguments is the most basic philosophical activity.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

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

Answer 10

True

Question 11

Philosophical questions tend to fall into five areas.

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Art and beauty are primarily topics within social philosophy

Answer 12

False

Question 13

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

Answer 13

True

Question 14

What does the branch of philosophy called metaphysical study?

Answer 14

Ultimate reality

Question 15

What does the branch of philosophy called epistemology study?

Answer 15

Knowledge

Question 16

What are Thales, Anaximenes and Anaximander collectively known as?

Answer 16

The Milesians

Question 17

According to Theano, what did pythagoras claim?

Answer 17

An intimacy between things and numbers

Question 18

What was the essence of reality of Heraclitus?

Answer 18

Change

Question 19

What is the cause of change for Empedocles?

Answer 19

Love and strife

Question 20

What did the Atomists do?

Answer 20

They held that all things are composed of physical atoms

Question 21

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

Answer 21

True

Question 22

The term “metaphysics” comes of pythagoras

Answer 22

False

Question 23

Zeno tried to refute Parmenides’ theory that reality is One.

Answer 23

False

Question 24

According to Aristotle, Pythagoras constructed natural bodies out of numbers.

Answer 24

True

Question 25

The Atomist believe strictly accordance` with physical laws and did not believe in chance or free will.

Answer 25

True

Question 26

After his trial and conviction for "corrupting" the minds of young men and for not believing in the city's gods, Socrates died by...

Answer 26

Drinking hemlock

Question 27

How are the Forms apprehended, according to Plato?

Answer 27

By reason, intellectually

Question 28

Plato had three famous theories:

Answer 28

The Theory of Knowledge, The Theory of Love and Becoming, The Theory of Forms

Question 29

Where do the Forms exist, according to Plato?

Answer 29

In a immaterial realm, ageless, that is, eternal

Question 30

The Theory of Forms by Plato are.

Answer 30

Unchanging, unmoving and indivisible.

Question 31

Three of Plato's more enlightening and well-known dialogs are:

Answer 31

Apology, Republic and Meno

Question 32

For Plato the ultimate way of knowing and realizing truth was through.

Answer 32

Love

Question 33

Socrates did not merely engage in sophistry; he was not interested in arguing for the sake of arguing.

Answer 33

True

Question 34

The dialectic method is a search to discover essesntial natural definitions of important concepts.

Answer 34

true

Question 35

Platonic dualism was utterly rejected by early Christianity

Answer 35

False

Question 36

Cratylus thought you couldn't step into the same river even once.

Answer 36

True

Question 37

According to Plato, true knowledge is truly real and unchangeable as compared to objects of sense perception.

Answer 37

True

Question 38

Plato believed that is enough to know the truth.

Answer 38

False

Question 39

Aristotle's primary area of interest was?

Answer 39

Metaphysics

Question 40

Aristotle's works include all the following except:

Answer 40

Confessions

Question 41

What did Aristotle say about all change?

Answer 41

It is a movement from potentiality to actuality

Question 42

Which of the following is not one of the ten basic categories Aristotle used to describe the ways in which humans think about things?

Answer 42

Weight

Question 43

How many souls did Aristotle believe humans have?

Answer 43

Three

Question 44

What is a syllogism?

Answer 44

A kind of inference

Question 45

In Aristotle's opinion each thing is a combination of matter and form.

Answer 45

True

Question 46

Aristotle wrote Politics

Answer 46

true

Question 47

The statement "What purpose does it serve?" is what Aristotle called the formal cause.

Answer 47

False

Question 48

According to Aristotle, only matter is what makes a thing.

Answer 48

False

Question 49

According to aristotle, forms are found only within particular things.

Answer 49

True

Question 50

Aristotle believed that logic and forms of thought could show the structure of reality.

Answer 50

True