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PHILOSOPHY!

Total questions: 31

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The freed prisoner (the philosopher who knows about the intelligible realm of the world) will return to the cave to free the enslaved prisoners; however, they will resist him because they are bound to this realm of the world.

a)

Visible realm

b)

Marcus Aurelius

c)

Delphi

d)

Wisdom

2.

Plato’s ultimate form

a)

The bad

b)

The republic

c)

The good

d)

Intelligible realm

3.

Plato’s Philosopher King became a reality in Rome when this famous Stoic philosopher became Emperor

a)

Marcus Aurelius

b)

Oracle

c)

Socrates

d)

Crito

4.

This Platonic dialogue describes Plato’s ideal society

a)

The Republic

b)

The Dialectic

c)

Crito

d)

Tartarus

5.

Plato argues that the forms exist in this realm

a)

The Intelligible realm

b)

The Ultimate realm

6.

This is what the Oracle at Delphi told Socrates

a)

Socrates is the wisest man in Greece

b)

They would have bad fortune

c)

He would become king

d)

Plato was taking over

7.

This is another name for Socrates’ method of question and answer

a)

Dialectic

b)

Chicken cutting method

c)

Priest fortune

8.

Socrates did not want to dishonor the gods so he promised to keep doing this

a)

Keep practicing philosophy

b)

To teach the youth

c)

To fight his own case

9.

Socrates decided to recommend a punishment of a 30 mina fine after he spoke with these two friends

a)

Plato and Crito

b)

Tartarus and Delphina

c)

Plato and Socratic

10.

When considering his death, Socrates is optimistic that he will not go to this place

a)

Tartarus

b)

Cotigo

c)

Plato

11.

According to Descartes, this is the one thing that cannot be doubted

a)

Cogito

b)

Knowledge

c)

Socratic

d)

Mathematics

12.

Descartes thought that Christianity and the new sciences could be reconciled through this subject

a)

Mathematics

b)

Prior Knowledge

c)

Sensation

d)

Substance

13.

Descartes argues that mathematical truths are an example of this type of knowledge

a)

Priori knowledge

b)

Mathematics

c)

Substance

d)

Socratic

14.

Descartes uses the wax analogy to establish this fact about the cogito

a)

Exists as a substance (or, that it is identical with itself through time)

b)

HOW the external world exists (i.e. sensation)

15.

The madman hypothesis was used by Descartes to doubt what

a)

HOW the external world exists (i.e. sensation)

b)

Exists as a substance(or, that it is identical with itself through time)

16.

This Latin phrase means “from before [observation]”

a)

A priori

b)

A posteriori

17.

In Early Christianity, the logos was identified with this person of the Trinity

a)

The Son( Jesus)

b)

The Father

c)

The Mother

d)

The Sister

18.

This Roman Philosopher argued that the purpose of life is to join with the good

a)

Plotinus

b)

Plato

c)

Cotigo

19.

In Early Christianity, Plato’s collective forms were considered these

a)

The thoughts of God

b)

The thoughts of philosophy

20.

This is the Latin phrase Descartes uses to describe material things

a)

res extensa

b)

A posterior

c)

A priori

21.

The word “apology” signifies this in the title of Plato’s dialogue, The Apology

a)

A defense

b)

Wisdom

c)

Knowledge

22.

Part of the word “philosophy” is derived from the Greek word “sophia” which means this

a)

Wisdom

b)

Knowledge

c)

God

23.

This Greek word means “study of”

a)

Logos

b)

God

c)

Ontos

24.

The Greek word “theos” means this

a)

God

b)

Logos

c)

Ontos

25.

The word “Ontology” is derived from these two Greek words

a)

“ontos” and “logos”

b)

"theos" and "sophia"

26.

The word “philosophy” was actually coined by this famous Greek mathematician

a)

Pythagoras

b)

Socratic

c)

Geru

d)

Politics

27.

Heraclitus, an early Greek Pre-Socratic philosopher, argued that all things can be reduced to this primary element

a)

Fire

b)

Water

c)

Earth

d)

Wind

28.

Plato’s works are often considered ontological because he explains the difference between reality and this

a)

Appearance

b)

Political

c)

Fire

d)

Commodus

29.

If you are attempting to explain what power is, then you are doing ____________ philosophy, which is a type of axiology.

a)

Political

b)

Appearance

c)

Commodus

d)

God

30.

The __________ problem was a difficult problem that all of the Pre-Socratic philosophers attempted to answer by identifying the logos with ONE particular substrate for reality.

a)

One-Many problem

b)

Politics

31.

The philosopher and emperor Marcus Aurelius led to the fall of the Roman Empire by picking this mad son to become the next Emperor of the Roman Empire

a)

Commodus

b)

Cotigo

c)

Socratic

d)

God