Philosophy 101- Review FINALS

What is the natural knowledge of all things through their ultimate causes?

• Philosophy

• Logic

• Metaphysics

• Epistemology

The word “philosophy” means “l__________” (philos [love] + sophia [wisdom]

• love for knowledge

• love oneself

• love of God

• love of wisdom

___________is an inflated confidence in the power of the empirical sciences. It holds that knowledge is found in the physical sciences alone and that its methods should be applied to all other disciplines. 

• Empiricism

• Scientism

• Pragmatism

• Syllogism

________ considers   how   some people disagree  over what is true, and on  that  basis  concludes  that no   claim    to    truth    holds   any privileged status over any other

• Relativism 

• Empiricism

• Scientism

• Pragmatism

Relativism contradicts itself by claiming a privileged status over non-relative views of truth.

• True

• False

Scientism is self-contradictory. The statement, “All knowledge is found in the physical sciences alone,” is not a claim that can be proved scientifically.

• True

• False

Philosophy does provide us with certain knowledge about reality. However, the knowledge it provides will be philosophical; not scientific (in the modern sense). It will deal with the ultimate causes of everything.

• True

• False

It is the heart of philosophy. It investigates the existence of the universe and of ALL things in it.

• Metaphysics

• Logic

• Epistemology

• Ethics

It investigates KNOWLEDGE. This branch of philosophy answer What does it mean “to know”? and What can we know?

• Logic

• Ethics

• Epistemology

• Metaphysics

The branch of philosophy that studies what actions are morally right and wrong. It answer the question Is there a right and wrong?

• Logic

• Ethics

• Metaphysics

• Epistemology