Eastern and Western Philosophy

The Ying/Yang symbol represents the fact that opposites are not enemies or opposing forces, but instead are complementary ones. This derives from what philosophy/religion?

• Confucianism

• Taoism

• Buddism

• Shintoism

The Japanese religion which means way of the kami or way of the gods.

• Buddism

• Confucianism

• Shintoism

• Taoism

A Greek philosopher who was the pupil of Socrates and one of the most influential figures in Western thought. He is known as the father of Idealism in philosophy.

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Heraclitus

• Pythagoras

"If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow." This is a quotation form _____.

• Jean Jacques Rousseau

• Charles Darwin

• John Dewey

This philosophy believes that we are, due to our desires, in a state of constant suffering, and the only way to overcome this pain is to get rid of our desires.

• Taoism

• Buddhism

• Shintoism

• Confucianism

According to Confucius, people are naturally

• good

• bad

• a combination of good and bad

It is a teacher-centered educational philosophy that focuses on everlasting ideas and universal truths.

• Idealism

• Perrenialism

• Existentialism

• Naturalism

A philosophical theory or approach which emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will.

• Existentialism

• Essentialism

• Behaviorism

• Realism

It is a theory of learning based on the idea that all behaviors are acquired through conditioning.

• Cognitivism

• Pragmatism

• Behaviorism

• Reconstructivism

Attempted to analyze human behavior objectively, as a scientist would.

• realism

• naturalism

• idealism

• pragmatism