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Do you know the presocratic philosophers? aka the muffin men pt1

Chris Clark 8 questions Updated 19 Feb 2016

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  1. 1The world is an ever-living fire (flux) of conflict and struggle. This process is what keeps reality in a stasis. The process of change is a product of universal reason (logos). What appear to be disjointed events are actually intimately harmonized
    1. AThales
    2. BAnaximander
    3. CAnaximemes
    4. DPythagoras
    5. EHericlitus
    6. FDemocritus
    7. GEmpedocles
    8. HZeno
    9. IAnaxagoras
    10. JParmenides
  2. 2The only reality is in the certain. That certain is mathematics.Everything can be represented as numbers. The chief goal of rational thought is to purify the soul.
    1. AHeraclitus
    2. BPythagoras
    3. CAnaximemes
    4. DAnaximander
    5. Edemocritus
    6. FThales
    7. Gempedocles
    8. HZeno
    9. IAnaxagoras
    10. JParmenides
  3. 3Thales was concerned with...
    1. AThe primary substance being water
    2. BMathematics
    3. CThe true nature of things
    4. Dtheory of forms
    5. EThe nature of the element air
  4. 4What is true about Thale's pupil Anaximander's contribution to Philosophy?
    1. AAll life arose from the sea
    2. BAir is at the root of all things
    3. CHe invented the notion of the boundless
    4. DSomething either IS or IS NOT i.e a cow vs. a unicorn
  5. 5Which of the following best describes Zeno?
    1. AHe frequently uses poetry to convey his ideas about reality being static and indivisible
    2. BHe is primarily concerned with morals and human behavior rather than physical nature
    3. CHe reinforced Parmenides idea of "The One" through a series of paradoxes to show that motion and seperation are an illusion
    4. DHe devised the concept of nous, a cognative force in the universe that maintains order
    5. EReality is in alternating states of eros (love) and aron (strife)
  6. 6Who came up with the idea of atomism?
    1. AAnaxagoras
    2. BParmenides
    3. CPythagoras
    4. DAnaximemes
    5. EZeno
    6. FPlato
    7. GDemocritus
  7. 7Anaxagoras believed that existance is ruled by a cycle of love and strife
    1. ATrue
    2. BFalse
  8. 8Protagoras belived that
    1. AWhatever the 'divine power' makes true is true
    2. BWhatever people believe is true
    3. CSensory knowledge is the most true
    4. DCognitive knowledge is the most true
    5. ETrue knowledge is an illusion

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How well do you know the great minds of Ancient Greece?
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Created on 29 May 2014 · updated on 19 Feb 2016
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