Question 1 (2 points) Question 1 Unsaved Plato and Aristotle agreed on how to approach learning and on the idea that the universal forms actually exist

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Question 1 (2 points) Question 1 Unsaved

Plato and Aristotle agreed on how to approach learning and on the idea that the universal forms actually exist.

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Question 2 (2 points) Question 2 Unsaved

Zeno was an atomist.

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Question 3 (2 points) Question 3 Unsaved

Parmenides believed in trusting reason over one's senses.

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Question 4 (2 points) Question 4 Unsaved

Plato trusted his senses over his ability to reason.

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Question 5 (3 points) Question 5 Unsaved

According to Plato, the basis of knowledge was found in universal ______.

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Forms

 

Shapes

 

Communities

 

Colors

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The "Socratic" method involves teaching people by asking them questions. Socrates believed that this worked because people _______.

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learned the answer by carefully listening to the question. Socrates hid the answers in the questions.

 

were easy to embarass this way. Socrates found this amusing.

 

were worth teaching. Socrates loved to know things other people didn't.

 

innately knew the answer, they just didn't realize they did. The questions simply helped them discover the knowledge they already had.

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Question 7 (3 points) Question 7 Unsaved

Thales believed that everything was made of ______.

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heat

 

air

 

fire

 

water

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In the "Allegory of the Cave," Plato states that if the prisoners could, they would _____ the man who had escaped.

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hit

 

praise

 

kill

 

worship

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Question 9 (2 points) Question 9 Unsaved

Socrates believed that the soul was the true self and that the body was simply there as an accompaniment.

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The Cynics believed that society's conventional values were trustworthy and must be maintained at all cost.

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Question 11 (2 points) Question 11 Unsaved

Aristotle believed in learning through observing the natural world.

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Aristotle considered God the ______, the uncaused cause that everything can be traced back to.

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Untrained Learner

 

Grand Mystery

 

Great Lie

 

Unmoved Mover

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The three part argument that Aquinas proposed to suggested that the universe must have been created by God (who therefore must exist) is known as the cosmological arument for God.

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The Greek poet to whom the Illiad and the Odyssey are attributed to is _______.

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Cato

 

Homer

 

Edgar Allan Poe

 

Virgil

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Question 15 (3 points) Question 15 Unsaved

In Aristotle's virtue ethics, he believed in trying to find the _____ between deficit and excess.

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secret

 

mean

 

path

 

combination

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Heraclitus claimed that everything was made of ______.

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air

 

fire

 

water

 

love

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Aristotle divided the way we describe everything into ten basic ______.

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ranks

 

objectives

 

riddles

 

categories

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The name of Stoic philosophy is derived from the Greek word "stoa" which means _____.

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porch

 

truth

 

standing

 

suffering

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Question 19 (2 points) Question 19 Unsaved

The Skeptics did not feel that we have any right to assume that human reason can be trusted as a means to understand reality.

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The period that began with Alexander's spreading Greek culture throughout the world is known as the ______ period (your book states that it began upon his death, but many would argue that it began over the period of time during which he spread Greek culture).

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Imperial

 

Hellenistic

 

Hellenic

 

pan-Greek

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Tehe Eupicureans believed that only ______ is good.

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love

 

ignorance

 

suffering

 

pleasure

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Question 22 (2 points) Question 22 Unsaved

Thomas Aquinas accepted Platonic dualism.

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Question 23 (2 points) Question 23 Unsaved

Thomas Aquinas divided knowlege into two spheres. That of faith and that of reason.

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Aquinas believed that humankind's ability to describe God was limited because we and everything we experience is limited, but God is _____

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big

 

strong

 

infinite

 

omnipresent

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The idea that God must exist because the universe is orderly but could not have produced that order itself (and is therefore made orderly by an intelligent being) is known as the _____ argument for God.

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Teleological

 

Encyclial

 

Pathological

 

Oderian

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Question 26 (2 points) Question 26 Unsaved

The rediscovery of the works of Aristotle had a major impact on late Medeival thought.

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Question 27 (3 points) Question 27 Unsaved

Augustine got many of his ideas about how God illuminated the universe from his interpretation of the works of _______.

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Aristotle

 

Epictus

 

Plato

 

Zeno

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Question 28 (3 points) Question 28 Unsaved

The idea that the simplest explanation of something is usually the best is known as _____.

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Ockham's Razor

 

Augustine's Razor

 

Zeno's Paradox

 

Hubble's Law

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Question 29 (2 points) Question 29 Unsaved

Augustine separated the fallen "City of Man" (sometimes called the "City of the World") from the perfect "City of God."

 

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Anselm's idea that if people can concieve of God, a perfect being who exists (because existence is a prerequisite of perfection), therefore God must exist is known as the ______ for God's existence.

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Ontological

 

Confrontational

 

Teleological

 

Illogical

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Question 31 (2 points) Question 31 Unsaved

One of the defining debates of Medeival Philosophy is that between the superiority of faith versus reason.

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The early portion of the Middle Ages is often referred to as the _____ Ages because of the sad state of civilization.

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inner

 

poor

 

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light

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Augustine believed evil to be real, and mocked those who thought that it was simply the absense of God.

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Question 34 (6 points) Question 34 Unsaved

The Pre-Socratic philosophers had many divergent opinions, but they did have a lot in common. What are some of these things that many of them shared? Your answer can include both claims as well as their methods of enquiry.

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Question 35 (5 points) Question 35 Unsaved

In the allegory of the cave, the prisoners want to kill the escaped prisoner when he returns and tries to tell of the world of illusion that the other prisoners were living in. Why do they want to do this? Do people react in similar ways today when their preconceptions are challedged? Why or why not?

 

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Question 36 (5 points) Question 36 Unsaved

Explain how Augustine used Plato's ideas in formulating his own philosophy.