UNDERSTANDING THE SELF

Question 1

PhILOSOPHY is defined as the Study of ______?

Answer 1

Knowledge or Wisdom

Question 2

Latin Roots of the word “Philosophy”

Answer 2

“Philo” means Love; and
“Sophia” means Wisdom

Question 3

What Type of “Idea of Permanence”?

“Everything in existence is permanent and unchangeable. Something exist because it is permanent.”

Answer 3

Pro Permanence

Question 4

What Type of “Idea of Permanence”?

Everything flows. You can never step on the same river twice.

Answer 4

Pro Changeability

Question 5

Who are the Big 3 Philosophers?

Answer 5

Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

Question 6

He is the Mentor of Plato

Answer 6

Socrates

Question 7

Stone Mason with a Sharp Mind

Answer 7

Socrates

Question 8

Great Debater

Answer 8

Socrates

Question 9

What is the Socratic/Dialectic Method?

Answer 9

Do not answer the question. Make them answer the question by giving them another question.

Question 10

“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”

Answer 10

Socrates

Question 11

He was named by the Oracle of Delphi as the Wisest of All Men

Answer 11

Socrates

Question 12

Born in Athens to one of the Greece’s aristocratic families

Answer 12

Plato

Question 13

Nicknamed because of his physical built which means Wide or Broad

Answer 13

Plato

Question 14

He established “The Academy”

Answer 14

Plato

Question 15

Refers to what are real. Not encountered with the senses. Can only be grasped intellectually.

Answer 15

Forms

Question 16

He believed that his mission in life was to seek the highest knowledge and convince others who are willing to seek this knowledge with him.

Answer 16

Socrates

Question 17

What are the Characteristics of Forms?

Answer 17

Forms are Ageless and therefore are Eternal, Unchanging and therefore are Permanent, Unmoving and Indivisible

Question 18

PLATO’S DUALISM

“Composed of changing “sensible” things which are lesser entities and therefore IMPERFECT AND FLAWED

Answer 18

The Realm of Shadows

Question 19

PLATO’S DUALISM

“Composed of eternal things which are permanent and perfect. It is the source of reality and true knowledge.”

Answer 19

The Realm of Forms

Question 20

He made use of the Socratic/Dialectic Method

Answer 20

Plato

Question 21

He believed that knowledge lies within a person’s soul

Answer 21

Plato

Question 22

3 COMPONENTS OF SOUL

“Rational and is the Motivation for goodness and truth.”

Answer 22

The Reason

Question 23

3 COMPONENTS OF SOUL

“Non-rational and is the will or the drive towards action. Initially neutral but can be influenced in two direction.”

Answer 23

The Spirited

Question 24

3 COMPONENTS OF SOUL

“Irrational and lean towards the desire and pleasure of the body.”

Answer 24

The Appetizer

Question 25

What people see in the cave are only shadows which they believe are real things and represents knowledge.

Answer 25

Allegory of the Cave

Question 26

In knowing the truth, the person must become the truth.

Answer 26

Theory of Being

Question 27

___________ is the way of knowing and realizing the truth.

Answer 27

Love

Question 28

Sees man as a sinners who reject/go against a loving God's command

Answer 28

Christianity

Question 29

A philosopher whose main idea is about Religion.

Answer 29

St. Augustine

Question 30

He is from Hippo, Africa

Answer 30

St. Augustine

Question 31

He wanted to know about moral evil and why it existed in people, his personal desire for sensual pleasures and questions about all sufferings in the world.

Answer 31

St. Augustine

Question 32

His view of human nature are God as the source of all reality and truth, and the sinfulness of man.

Answer 32

St. Augustine

Question 33

Father of Modern Philosophy

Answer 33

Rene Descartes

Question 34

Introduced the Cartesian Plane and invented Analytic Geometry

Answer 34

Rene Descartes

Question 35

The ability to apprehend direction of certain truths

Answer 35

Intuition

Question 36

The power to discover what is known by progressing in an orderly way from what is already known. Truths are arrived using step by step process.

Answer 36

Deduction

Question 37

I think, therefore I am

Answer 37

Rene Descartes

Question 38

He believed that reasoning could produce absolute truths about nature, existence, morality, and God

Answer 38

Rene Descartes

Question 39

He considered the soul/mind as a substance that is separate from the body

Answer 39

Rene Descartes

Question 40

He was born in Wrington, England

Answer 40

John Locke

Question 41

Son of a Puritan Lawyer

Answer 41

John Locke

Question 42

He believed that knowledge results for ideas produced by the objects that were experienced

Answer 42

John Locke

Question 43

PROCESS INVOLVES TWO FORMS Objects were experienced through the senses

Answer 43

Sensation

Question 44

PROCESS INVOLVES TWO FORMS Mind looks at the objects that were experienced to discover relationships that may exists between them

Answer 44

Reflection

Question 45

Ideas are not inmate but rather the mind at birth is a blank slate

Answer 45

Tabula Rasa

Question 46

His View of Human Nature is Knowing what is good does not necessarily mean that people will always do what is good. And Morals, Religious, and Political Values come from sense experience.

Answer 46

John Locke

Question 47

JOHN LOCKE'S THREE LAWS Actions that are 'praiseworthy' are called Virtue and those that are not are called Vice.

Answer 47

Law of Opinion

Question 48

JOHN LOCKE'S THREE LAWS Right actions are enforced by people with authority (ex. Courts, Police)

Answer 48

Civil Law

Question 49

JOHN LOCKE'S THREE LAWS The actions of man are set by God

Answer 49

Divine Law

Question 50

Impressions immediate sensation

Answer 50

David Hume

Question 51

Recollection of Impressions

Answer 51

Ideas

Question 52

Human nature “self” others call it “soul”.The self is a product of the imagination.There is no permanent self.

Answer 52

David Hume

Question 53

The mind is not just a passive receiver of sense experience but an active participant. God is within man.

Answer 53

Immanuel Kant

Question 54

The Unconscious (Iceberg), ID, EGO, SUPEREGO, Instincts: LIFE (Eros – libido – thirst, hunger, sex), DEATH (Thanatos – aggression and violence)

Answer 54

Sigmund Freud

Question 55

knowing that’ (only is empty intellectualism) and ‘knowing how’

Answer 55

Gilbert Ryle

Question 56

Neurophilosophy - the brain and the mind. The biochemical properties of the brain are responsible for man’s thoughts, feelings, and behavior

Answer 56

Patricia and Paul Churchland

Question 57

Self-experience and the experience of other people

Answer 57

Maurice Merleau Ponty

Question 58

The Study of the world around us

Answer 58

Sociology

Question 59

The Self cannot be separated from the Society

Answer 59

George Herbert Mead