Week 2

Question 1

Two Approaches to Philosophy

Answer 1

Historical and Systematic

Question 2

traces the progress of ideas through four periods, based on what Hegel calls zeitgiest which literally means “spirit of the time”

Answer 2

historical study of philosophy

Question 3

Cosmocentric or world centered

Answer 3

Ancient age

Question 4

Theocentric or God-centered

Answer 4

Medieval AGe

Question 5

Anthropocentric or man-centered

Answer 5

Modern age

Question 6

Global or borderless

Answer 6

Contemporary or post-modern age

Question 7

Ancient period started where

Answer 7

Milesia

Question 8

What did Thales and Pre-Socratics asked in the Greek miracle

Answer 8

What is the world stuff?

Question 9

Thales’ answer

Answer 9

Water

Question 10

Anaximenes’ answer

Answer 10

Air

Question 11

Anaximander’s answer

Answer 11

Apeiron or infinite

Question 12

Heraclitus’ answer

Answer 12

Fire

Question 13

Empedocles’ answer

Answer 13

Four elements

Question 14

Democritus’ answer

Answer 14

Atom

Question 15

Heraclitus’ answer

Answer 15

Constant flux

Question 16

Parmenides’ answer

Answer 16

Permanent and unchanging

Question 17

Icon of philosopher, the philosopher’s philosopher

Answer 17

Socrates

Question 18

Confine the world to this physical one

Answer 18

Aristotelian

Question 19

Live in the hope of a more perfect world beyond

Answer 19

Platonist

Question 20

Refers to the philosophy in Western Europe

Answer 20

Medieval philosophy

Question 21

Age of Belief, the golden age of the Christian Church

Answer 21

Medieval Period

Question 22

Philosophers in Medieval period

Answer 22

St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine

Question 23

St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine. Who is Aristotelian and Platonist?

Answer 23

Thomas-A

Augustine-P

Question 24

Highest point of the Medieval Age

Answer 24

13th century

Question 25

The decline after 13th century was induced by ——

Answer 25

various schisms, great and small, and the eventual displacement of feudalism

Question 26

Time interval of each period

Answer 26

Ancient (600 bc-600 ad) Medieval (600-1600) Modern (1600-1900) Contemporary (1900-present)

Question 27

Moder Age is the age of —————

Answer 27

Age of Geniuses, Age of Enlightenment, Age of the Emergence of Mathematics and other Sciences

Question 28

Revival of the glorious achievement of the Greeks

Answer 28

Modern Age

Question 29

Renaissance means

Answer 29

Rebirth

Question 30

Philosophers in modern age

Answer 30

Leonardo da Vinci, Rene Descartes

Question 31

I think, therefore I am.

Answer 31

“Cogito ergo sum”

Question 32

Reason as the chief source and test of knowledge

Answer 32

Rationalism

Question 33

All concepts originate in experience

Answer 33

Empiricism

Question 34

Rationalist’s group

Answer 34

Rene Descartes, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, and Benedict de Spinoza

Question 35

Empiricist’s group

Answer 35

John Locke, George Berkley, and David Hume

Question 36

Father of Post-modernity

Answer 36

Immanuel Kant

Question 37

oldest among his contemporaries during 17th and 18th centuries who effected the paradigm shift.

Answer 37

Immanuel Kant

Question 38

Immanuel Kant’s painting that marks the end of modern philosophy

Answer 38

Critique of Pure Reason

Question 39

“Critique of Pure Reason” is the completion of ——

Answer 39

Descartes’ Universal Methodical Doubt

Question 40

Father of Philosophy

Answer 40

Thales

Question 41

Father of Modern Thought

Answer 41

Rene Descartes

Question 42

Father of Liberism

Answer 42

John Locke

Question 43

German, known for arguing that space, time, and causation are mere sensibilities; “things-in-themselves” exist, but their nature is unknowable.”

Answer 43

Immanuel Kant

Question 44

English; first British empiricist after the tradition of Sir Francis Bacon; Affected by the development of epistemology and political philosophy; Influenced several Enlightenment thinkers such as Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Answer 44

John Locke

Question 45

One of the founders of western religion and spirituality; | Inventor of the written dialogue and dialects forms in philosophy

Answer 45

Plato

Question 46

One of the most popular Chinese philosophers; Emphasized personal and governmental morality; His thoughts received official sanction. They were further developed into a system known in the West as Neo-Confucianism, and later New Confucianism (Modern Neo- Confucianism

Answer 46

Confucius

Question 47

French; | One of the founders of modern philosophy

Answer 47

Rene Descartes

Question 48

Was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher;

Question 49

Was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher; One of the founders of Western Philosophy; First moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought; Taught Plato and Xenophon

Answer 49

Socrates