Introduction to Philosophy - QUIZ on Ancient Philosophy

Western philosophy traces its historical origin to Ancient Athens in the 6th-century B.C.

• True
• False

_______________ was a 6th-century philosopher who taught water was the source of everything. He was also the first person to claim the Earth was spherical, and that it floated on water

• Socrates
• Aristotle
• Heraclitus
• Thales of Miletus

was another 6th-century philosopher who taught that abstract numbers were the source of everything. These numbers formed patterns, which in turn constituted material things

• Heraclitus
• Parmenides
• Plato
• Pythagoras

___________lived from the 6th to the 5th-century B.C. He taught that fire was the source of everything. More importantly, he taught that everything was in a constant state of flux. Nothing is permanent.

• Pythagoras
• Aristotle
• Plato
• Heraclitus

There is no stable being, there is only becoming. This is called _____________

• dynamic monism
• dynamic monotheism
• dual monism
• constant flux

He taught that there is only being, and no becoming. Change is thus an illusion. He reached this conclusion because he thought being and non-being exhausted everything in reality.

• Socrates
• Aristotle
• Plato
• Parmenides

A corollary of Parmenides’ philosophy is that there is only being, and all reality is one. Moreover, change is an illusion. This is called ______________

• static monism.
• static monthiesm
• dynamic monism
• dynamic monotheism

They were traveling educators who charged fees for teaching young men grammar, rhetoric, and philosophy.

• The Sophists
• The Methodist
• The Socratic movement
• The Empiricist

__________was a former soldier who heard voices (divine oracles). He didn’t like the Sophists, and thought they would cause the collapse of Greece.

• Socrates
• Aristotle
• Parminedes
• Plato

Socrates used questions to expose a person’s fundamental assumptions. This came to be known as the __________________

• Socratic Method
• Empiricism
• Ralativism
• Dualism