Lecture 4, Chapter 4 and 5

Question 1

What does materialism teach?

Answer 1

The universe is comprised only of matter

Question 2

Which metaphysical theory set the stage for modern science?

Answer 2

Atomism

Question 3

Which philosopher re-defined dualism for the modern age?

Answer 3

Rene Decartes

Question 4

Who is considered the father of classical dualism?

Answer 4

Plato

Question 5

Which of the following metaphysical theories was created to Plotinus?

Answer 5

Emanationism

Question 6

Monists all believe that the world is comprised of water.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

Two famous thinkers of the atomist school were Leuippus and Democritus

Answer 7

True

Question 8

Pluralism believe that there are many different elements that comprise the universe.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

There are two types of monism: material monism and idealism

Answer 9

True

Question 10

The French philosopher Rene Descartes is called the “Father of Modern Philosophy.”

Answer 10

True

Question 11

What did Socrates hope to achieve by practicing the Socratic Method?

Answer 11

He wanted to discover adequate definitions that would give knowledge of the essential nature of things, especially, traits of good character

Question 12

When the Delphi Oracle pronounced Socrates to be the wisest of people, Socrates thought the pronouncement referred to the fact that he…

Answer 12

Was aware of his own ignorance

Question 13

After his trail and conviction of “corrupting” the minds of young men and for ot believing in the city’s gods, Socrates died by..

Answer 13

Drinking hemlock

Question 14

How are the Forms apprehended, according to Plato?

Answer 14

By reason, intellectually

Question 15

How are the Forms apprehended, according to Plato?

Answer 15

By reason, intellectually

Question 16

Plato had three famous theories…

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Where do the Forms exist, according to Plato?

Answer 17

In a immaterial realm, ageless, that is, eternal

Question 18

The Theory of Forms by Plato are…

Answer 18

Unchanging, unmoving, and indivisible

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Love

Question 20

Three of Plato’s more enlightening and well-known dialogs are…

Answer 20

Apology, Republic and Meno

Question 21

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

Answer 21

True

Question 22

The dislectic method is a search to discover essential definitions of important concepts.

Answer 22

True

Question 23

Plato thought that physical objects are totally unreal and did not exist.

Answer 23

False

Question 24

Some Forms are higher than others, according to Plato.

Answer 24

True

Question 25

Platonic dualism was utterly rejected by early Christianity

Answer 25

False

Question 26

Socrates' Theory of Knowledge came well before his Theory of Forms

Answer 26

False

Question 27

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

Answer 27

True

Question 28

Protagoras was rejecting absolute knowledge, according to Plato when he said that man is the measure of all things.

Answer 28

True

Question 29

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

Answer 29

True

Question 30

Plato believed that it is enough to know the truth.

Answer 30

False

Question 31

Aristotle's primary area of interest was?

Answer 31

Metaphysics

Question 32

Aristotle's classified works include all the following except... Confessions Metaphysics Poetics Nicomachean Ethics

Answer 32

Confessions

Question 33

What is a particular thing, according to Aristotle?

Answer 33

a combination of a hunk of matter/marble with a certain form

Question 34

What does Aristotle mean by the efficient cause of a thing?

Answer 34

What made it

Question 35

What did Aristotle say about all change?

Answer 35

It is movement from possibility to actuality

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Weight

Question 37

How many souls did Aristotle believe humans have?

Answer 37

Three

Question 38

What is syllgism?

Answer 38

A kind of inference

Question 39

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

Answer 39

True

Question 40

Aristotle wrote Politics.

Answer 40

True

Question 41

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

Answer 41

False

Question 42

The statement "What made it" is what Aristotle called the material cause.

Answer 42

False

Question 43

According to Aristotle, only is what makes a thing.

Answer 43

False

Question 44

Existence and substance make up essences.

Answer 44

False

Question 45

Aristotle and substance make up essence.

Answer 45

False

Question 46

Aristotle defined humans as irrational animals.

Answer 46

False

Question 47

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

Answer 47

True

Question 48

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

Answer 48

True