Philosophy

Which philosopher is best known for his statement cogito ergo sum?

• Rene Discartes

• Plato

• Socrates

• Jean- Paul Sarte

According to Plato, what is knowledge?

• A justified true belief

• There is no such thing as true knowledge

• Opinion

• That which can be proven

Thomas Aquinas’s cosmological arguments argue for…

• The existence of God

• Nihilism

• The existence of other intelligent life

• The existence of knowledge

Philosophy comes from the Greek philosophia, meaning what?

• Lover of philosophy

• Love of wisdom

• Love of soapboxes

• Lover of questions

Which branch of philosophy is primarily concerned with the question of being?

• Platonism

• Existentialism

• Marxism

• Humanism

Who is widely known as the first existentialist, despite never having used the word existentialism?

• Søren Kierkegaard

• Alan Watts

• Hannah Arendt

• Jean-Paul Sartre

Transcendental idealism argues that…

• God is the ideal human

• There is an afterlife

• Our experience is based on our perceptions

• Knowledge has foundations

What does tabula rasa mean?

• Red tablet

• New knowledge

• Rise tomorrow

• Clean slate

The allegory of the cave argues what?

• We are born with infinite knowledge.

• There is value in ignorance.

• Perceptions are sources of absolute knowledge.

• Our perceptions may not be accurate.

Plato was a student to which philosopher?

• Aristotle

• Xenophon

• Socrates

• Thomas Aquinas