Intro to Philo 1st Q

What is the main goal of philosophy?

• To predict the future

• To accumulate wealth

• To seek truth and wisdom

• To invent new technologies

Which philosopher is known as the 'Father of Western Philosophy'?

• Aristotle

• Socrates

• Descartes

• Plato

What is the study of being, existence, and reality called in philosophy?

• Epistemology

• Ethics

• Metaphysics

• Logic

Which branch of philosophy deals with the nature and scope of knowledge?

• Ethics

• Aesthetics

• Epistemology

• Logic

Who wrote 'The Republic,' a philosophical dialogue about justice and the ideal state?

• Aristotle

• Descartes

• Plato

• Nietzsche

Which of the following is a method of philosophizing that focuses on the analysis of arguments and reasoning?

• Dialectics

• Empiricism

• Rationalism

• Logical analysis

Which method of philosophizing emphasizes the importance of sensory experience as the source of all knowledge?

• Empiricism

• Rationalism

• Pragmatism

• Phenomenology

What method of philosophizing did Descartes famously use, starting from doubt to arrive at certainty?

• Skepticism

• Methodic doubt

• Pragmatism

• Idealism

Which method of philosophizing emphasizes practical consequences and utility in determining meaning and truth?

• Phenomenology

• Existentialism

• Pragmatism

• Rationalism

Which philosopher is associated with the phenomenological method, focusing on the lived experience?

• Edmund Husserl

• Immanuel Kant

• Karl Marx

• John Stuart Mill