Week 2

Question 1

What was the Delian League?

Answer 1

-military alliance formed between Athens and other Greek city-states
-purpose: to defend from Persia
-Athens was in charge (all members pay tribute to Athens)

Question 2

What was the Peloponnesian League?

Answer 2

-military alliance founded by Sparta
-less centralized
-no tribute requirement

Question 3

What is telion melos?

Answer 3

Music in its perfect form (music with poetry/dancing)

Question 4

What is hubris?

Answer 4

excessive ambition and pride (behavior that challenges the gods)

Question 5

Thales of Miletus: Materialist, Dualist, Historian?

Answer 5

Materialist

Question 6

Empedocles of Acragas: Materialist, Dualist, Historian?

Answer 6

Materialist

Question 7

Heraclitus: Materialist, Dualist, Historian?

Answer 7

Dualist

Question 8

Plato: Materialist, Dualist, Historian?

Answer 8

Dualist

Question 9

Parmenides: Materialist, Dualist, Historian?

Answer 9

Dualist

Question 10

Herodotus: Materialist, Dualist, Historian?

Answer 10

Historian

Question 11

Anaximenes: Materialist, Dualist, Historian?

Answer 11

Materialist

Question 12

Protagoras: Materialist, Dualist, Historian?

Answer 12

Dualist

Question 13

Aristotle: Materialist, Dualist, Historian?

Answer 13

Materialist

Question 14

Pythagoras: Materialist, Dualist, Historian?

Answer 14

Materialist

Question 15

What statesman was known as “The First Citizen of Athens?”

Answer 15

Pericles

Question 16

What are materialists?

Answer 16

View nature in terms of elements

Question 17

What are dualists?

Answer 17

Believe in two universes:
1. World around us
2. Perfect, ideal world accessed only through intellect

Question 18

Which philosopher believed everything has its origins in water

Answer 18

Thales of Miletus

Question 19

Which philosopher believed the world is made up of a single common material: air?

Answer 19

Anaximenes

Question 20

Which philosopher believed you can’t step into the same river twice?

Answer 20

Heraclitus

Question 21

Which philosopher believed man is the measure of all things (rather than the divine)?

Answer 21

Protagoras

Question 22

Which philosopher believed in four elements: earth, air, fire, water

Answer 22

Empedocles of Acragas

Question 23

Which philosopher believed matter is made of infinitely small parts?

Answer 23

Anaxagoras

Question 24

Which philosopher believed you can’t trust your senses?

Answer 24

Parmenides

Question 25

Which philosopher believed the unexamined life is not worth living?

Answer 25

Socrates

Question 26

Which philosopher believed in Ideal Forms?

Answer 26

Plato

Question 27

Which philosopher believed it is the mark of an educated man to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it

Answer 27

Aristotle

Question 28

What is this passage from: "For I go about doing nothing but persuading you all, young and old, not to care for your bodies for money more than for the excellence of your souls, saying that virus does not come from money, but that it is from virtue that money comes and every other good of man, both private and public."

Answer 28

Plato's Apology (record of Socrates' trial)

Question 29

Who created the branch of philosophy known as formal logic?

Answer 29

Aristotle

Question 30

What is formal logic?

Answer 30

If A=B and B=C then A=C

Question 31

Why does the teacher only ask questions in the Socratic method?

Answer 31

to explore the limits of one's knowledge

Question 32

Characteristics of the late Classical period in Greece?

Answer 32

-confusion -exploration of ideas and styles -Athens no longer the cultural center -expanding Greek empire

Question 33

In seeking wise men, Socrates realized that people

Answer 33

don't know what they don't know

Question 34

5 Branches of Ancient Greek Philosophy

Answer 34

1. logic 2. metaphysics 3. epistemology 4. aesthetics 5. political philosophy

Question 35

Name of Plato's work in which he described ideal society?

Answer 35

The Republic

Question 36

3 points of Aristotle's ethics

Answer 36

1. everything we need to learn is in the world around us 2. man is a political creature 3. happiness comes from approaching divine potential