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WorksheetsEastern and Western Philosophy
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 3mins
The Ying/Yang symbol represents the fact that opposites are not enemies or opposing forces, but instead are complementary ones. This derives from what philosophy/religion?
Confucianism
Taoism
Buddism
Shintoism
The Japanese religion which means way of the kami or way of the gods.
Buddism
Confucianism
Shintoism
Taoism
A Greek philosopher who was the pupil of Socrates and one of the most influential figures in Western thought. He is known as the father of Idealism in philosophy.
Plato
Aristotle
Heraclitus
Pythagoras
"If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow." This is a quotation form _____.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Charles Darwin
John Dewey
This philosophy believes that we are, due to our desires, in a state of constant suffering, and the only way to overcome this pain is to get rid of our desires.
Taoism
Buddhism
Shintoism
Confucianism
According to Confucius, people are naturally
good
bad
a combination of good and bad
It is a teacher-centered educational philosophy that focuses on everlasting ideas and universal truths.
Idealism
Perrenialism
Existentialism
Naturalism
A philosophical theory or approach which emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will.
Existentialism
Essentialism
Behaviorism
Realism
It is a theory of learning based on the idea that all behaviors are acquired through conditioning.
Cognitivism
Pragmatism
Behaviorism
Reconstructivism
Attempted to analyze human behavior objectively, as a scientist would.
realism
naturalism
idealism
pragmatism
