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Question 1

“Know thy self”

Answer 1

Socrates

Question 2

“An unexamined life is not worth living”

Answer 2

Socrates

Question 3

What is the dualistic reality of Socrates?

Answer 3

Body and soul

Question 4

T/F
Socrates said that “Our soul strives for wisdom and perfection”.

Answer 4

T

Question 5

What are the 3–part of the soul or self according to Plato?

Answer 5

Reason
Physical appetite
Spirit or Passion

Question 6

Aristotle said that the mind (self) is a _____, a blank tablet.

Answer 6

Tabula rasa

Question 7

According to Aristotle, self is composed of _____ and _____.

Answer 7

Matter and form

Question 8

According to Aristotle, the _____ is through experiences.

Answer 8

Process of completion

Question 9

Apathy or indifference to pleasure.

A. Stoicism
B. Hedonism
C. Epicureanism

Answer 9

A

Question 10

Embracing adversity.

A. Stoicism
B. Hedonism
C. Epicureanism

Answer 10

A

Question 11

It’s a philosophy designed to make us more resilient, happier, more virtuous and more wise–and as a result, better people, better parents and better professionals.

A. Stoicism
B. Hedonism
C. Epicureanism

Answer 11

A

Question 12

“Eat, drink, and be happy. For tomorrow you will die.”

A. Stoicism
B. Hedonism
C. Epicureanism

Answer 12

B

Question 13

They believe that pleasure is the only evil, and our life’s goal should be to maximize pleasure and minimize pain.

A. Stoicism
B. Hedonism
C. Epicureanism

Answer 13

B

Question 14

Moderate pleasure.

A. Stoicism
B. Hedonism
C. Epicureanism

Answer 14

C

Question 15

Being content with the simple things in life ensures that you will never be disappointed.

A. Stoicism
B. Hedonism
C. Epicureanism

Answer 15

C

Question 16

In Medieval Philosophy (500 AD to 1350 AD), it is the scientific investigation on nature and search for happiness to the question of life and salvation in another realm, in a better world (afterlife).

Answer 16

Theo-centric

Question 17

In Medieval Philosophy (500 AD to 1350 AD), this aims to merge philosophy and religion (Christian, Jewish, Muslim).

Answer 17

Theo-centric

Question 18

He integrates Platonic ideas with the tenets of Christianity.

A. St. Augustine
B. St. Thomas Aquinas

Answer 18

A

Question 19

The self strives to achieve union with God through faith and reason.

A. St. Augustine
B. St. Thomas Aquinas

Answer 19

A

Question 20

Self-knowledge is dependent in our experience of the world around us (objects in our environment).

A. St. Augustine
B. St. Thomas Aquinas

Answer 20

B

Question 21

The labels we attribute to ourselves are taken from the things we encounter in our environment.

A. St. Augustine
B. St. Thomas Aquinas

Answer 21

B

Question 22

“The things that we love tell us what we are”.

A. St. Augustine
B. St. Thomas Aquinas

Answer 22

B

Question 23

T/F

St. Thomas tells us that our knowledge is based on our encounter of things.

Answer 23

T

Question 24

T/F

According to St. Thomas Aquinas, experiencing that something exists doesn’t tell us what it is.

Answer 24

T

Question 25

T/F

According to St. Thomas Aquinas, knowing and learning about a thing requires a long process of understanding; same with the mind and the self – with experience and reason.

Answer 25

T

Question 26

Thinkers that began to reject the scholastics’ (medieval thinkers) excessive reliance on authority.

Answer 26

Anthropocentric

Question 27

Period of radical, social, political and intellectual developments.

Answer 27

Anthropocentric

Question 28

“The self is a thinking, distinct from the body”.

Answer 28

Rene Descartes

Question 29

“Personal identity is made possible by self-consciousness”

Answer 29

John Locke

Question 30

“There is no SELF, only a bundle of constantly changing perceptions passing through the theater of our minds.”

Answer 30

David Hume

Question 31

“The self is a unifying subject, an organizing consciousness that makes intelligible experience possible.”

Answer 31

Immanuel Kant

Question 32

“The self is the way people behave.”

Answer 32

Gilbert Ryle

Question 33

“The self is the brain. Mental states will be superseded by brain states.”

Answer 33

Paul & Patricia Churchland