Philosophy Corte 1

Which statement is untrue about myths?

• Myths are just stories that have no relationship to the real world.

• Myths have patterns across cultures that relate to the psychological nature of human beings.

• Myths are always at the root of our worldviews.

• Myths exist even underneath our scientific assumptions.

The word psyche entymologically stems from the Greek word for:

• soul

• consciousness

• emotion

• memory

The word philosophy means:

• Love of wisdom

• love of truth

• love of ideas

• love of belief

The Ariadnean thread is a symbolic term for:

• Finding one's path to be who you truly are

• Bringing together the truth of reality

• Making the rational soul dominant over the lower desires

• Figuring out God's purpose for life

The symbol of the labrinth represents:

• The human existential anxiety and fear of being lost and not knowing what to do.

• The complexity of thinking about concepts.

• The problems that humans fall in to if they don't use reason

• The illusion of mythological creatures.

The reason the Greeks called the universe a "cosmos" is because they felt it fundamentally contains:

• patterns of order

• indestructible atomic particles

• the power of the gods

• an illusion of truth

The end of the mythic worldview meant all of the following except:

• that there was nothing divine

• that people started to find new ways of understanding reality

• That people began to feel more in control over their individual free will

• that there was a more conceptual and philosophical approach to exploring the cosmos

Pythagoras was a philosopher of metaphysics because he:

• Believed that philosophy must go beyond just the physical exploration of reality, and include geometry, math, reason and moral consideration.

• Believed that the search for truth only comes from observations of the physical world.

• Argued that moral development was not important and that philosophers must only seek truth in mathematics.

• Claimed that only through meditation, and not investigation of the physical world, could human beings find the truth.

The reason Pythagoras found the golden spiral, the phi rato, the pentagonal structure of an apple core, and the astronomical patterns important was:

• Because the mathematical patterns in nature suggest an order to the cosmos that can enlighten the human being to understand life better.

• Because cosmological observations are the only thing important for philosophy.

• Because they were secrets that separated ignorant humans from wise people.

• Because an analysis of them would give a precise formula to understand the truth of the universe.

The presocratic philosopher that stated that nothing can come from nothing was:

• Pythagoras

• Thales

• Parmenides

• Heraclitus