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- 1What were 2 of Darwin's theories?Evolution and Natural Selection
- 2what does the term "Sophist" mean?A wise and informed person.
- 3Socrates was known as the wisest man in Athens, but never wrote a single line. What made him different from the sophists was:The one thing he knew was that he knew nothing.
- 4An unshakable faith in human reason is known as:Rationalist.
- 5In 399BC Socrates was accused of "introducing new gods and corrupting the youth", as well as not believing in the accepted gods. By a margin a jury found him guilty and he was:Sentenced to drink a poisonous beverage.
- 6What are the 3 stages of Hegel's "World Spirit"?Subjective, objective, absolute.
- 7How might the first living cells have been formed?Inorganic matter that swirled in tiny little "hot pools".
- 8Democritus is the last of the natural philosophers who assumed everything was built up of tiny, invisible, eternal and immutable blocks calledAtoms
- 9Lego and Democritus' theory have what in common?Nature is built of blocks that are unbreakable and can be formed into many different connections.
- 10Who was Schelling?The leading romantic philosopher.
- 11What was Schelling's project?Unite mind and matter.
- 12What did Goethe say?He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
- 13The Greeks fortune teller was referred to as:The oracle at Delphi
- 14The founder pf Greek medicine is said to beHippocrates
- 15What is another name for the French Enlightenment?The Age of Reason
- 16What is Deism?Belief that God created the world but has not revealed himself since.
- 17Which of the following descirbe the elements that Kant believed contributed to the knowledge of he world.Material of knowledge/Form of knowledge.
- 18According to Kant, what determines whether or not an action is morally right or wrongGoodwill
- 19The natural philosophers believed there was a ______ at the root of all things:Substance
- 20The first philosopher we know is ______ who came from _____:Thales, Miletus
- 21A rationalist is someone who believes:Human reason is the primary source of knowledge in the world
- 22What, as Hume pointed out, have we not experienced?The law of nature (ex. Gravity)
- 23All things flow according to this philosopher who said you can never step in the same river twice.Heraclitus
- 24What does the Greek word "Logos" mean?Logic
- 25Hume was this:Empiricist
- 26Hume believed that nothing had to do with reason:True
- 27According to Kierkedaard, what kinds of truth are relevant?The important truths are subjective and personal
- 28What does "credo quia absurdum" mean?I believe because is irrational.
- 29What, according to Hume, was something that no philosopher was all to do?Give us rules of conduct or the meaning of daily experiences.
- 30A person who lives in the Aesthetic stage does this:Lives for the moment.
- 31What did Marx mean by existential philosophy or a philosophy of action?Philosophers need to make a point of trying to change the world, not just interpreting it.
- 32Philosophers search for the truth most resembles:A detective story.
- 33The only thing we require to be good philosophers is:The faculty of wonder.
- 34What group has the most in common with philosophers?Small Children.
- 35What did Hume mean by impressions?The immediate sensation of external reality.
- 36Prior to philosophy how did people get answers to big questions?Myths
- 37What does an agnostic believe?That God neither exists nor does he not exists.
- 38What did Hegel meanSum of human utterances
- 39What is a rationalist?believes strongly in the importance of reason.
- 40What is empiricist?Derives all knowledge of the world from what our senses tell us.
- 41What is tabula rasa?Empty slate.
- 42How does Locke distinguish between sensations and reflections?The mind is not simply a passive receiver.
- 43What does Locke believe must be rejected.knowledge that cannot be traced back into simple sensation.
- 44What did Locke believe was inherent in human reason?To be able to know that god exists.
- 45What did Descartes believe was innate?The idea of God.
- 46What is DogmaA set or principles laid down by the church which are inarguably true.
- 47How was Spinoza a pantheist?The belief that God is all and all is God.
- 48What are ethics?The study of moral conduct for living a good life.
- 49What, according to Spinoza must we free ourselves from to achieve happiness?Our feelings and passions
- 50What according to Descartes was the only path to knowledge?Knowledge is only attainable through our reason.
- 51What is philosophical skepticism?Man should accept that he knows nothing.
- 52HOW is Descartes similar to Plato?What we grasp with our reason is more real than what we grasp with our senses.
- 53What does Descartes statement "cogito ergo sum" refer to?I think therefore I am.
- 54What is heliocentric universe ?The belief that everything revolves around the sun.
- 55What, according to Luther, happened to mankind after the "fall"?Mankind was totally depraved (morally corrupt)
- 56One of the favourite sayings during the Baroque period was "Carpe Diem" which means:Seize the day.
- 57What characterized the Baroque period?Vanity.
- 58What is idealism.What exists is spiritual in nature.
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