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WorksheetsRené Decart
Total questions: 38
Worksheet time: 30mins
In what century wrote Decart his work?
XV
XVI
XVII
XVIII
To which school of thought Descartes belong?
Empiricism
Rationalism
Scholasticism
Scepticism
Decart studied at “La Felchè”, a school which follow the principles of…
Empiricism
Rationalism
Scholasticism
Renaissance Scepticism
Which is the main cause of the crisis in the thought of XVII century?
Instability and doubt at the Renaissance thought, still based on principles of the Middle Age
The discoveries of the New Science
The disagreement between the most famous scientists of the moment.
There is not a crisis in the thought of the XVII Century.
Michael de Montaigne is the most important philosopher of….
Empiricism
Rationalism
Scholasticism
Renaissance Scepticism
What is the main difference between Scepticism and cartesian doubt?
None. Descartes copied the entire theories of Montaigne!
The Methodic Doubt is not a standstill, but a step in order to search the truth
The Scepticism doubt is not a standstill, but a step in order to search the truth
The Scepticism doubt is based on the Greek philosophy
Exemplary wise man to the science from the Middle Age:
Plato
Decart
Jesus
Aristotle
Exemplary wise man to the scientists from the Renaissance:
Raymond Lulio
Thomas Aquinas
Archimedes
Aristotle
Which scientist of the New Science design the “Experimental Method”, basis of Rationalism and Empiricism?
Kepler
Galileo
Copernicus
Leonardo Da Vinci
Which philosopher, converted his theories in dogma during the Middle Age, was discredited by New Science?
Socrates
Plato
Archimedes
Aristotle
Philosophical trend from the XVII Century, opposing to Rationalism, based more in experience than reason:
Scholastic
Scepticism
Perspectivism
Empiricism
Who is buried here?
You can visit this famous empiricist's tomb in Edimburgh, but be careful! It's haunted!
David Hume
Thomas Hobbes
Francis Bacon
Adam Smith
For the empiricism, we build our knowledge mostly through experience, but the Rationalism consider that…
Some ideas are innate, so we build our knowledge mostly through reasoning.
We can’t reach the true knowledge, because all is relative.
The senses are the main source to reach true knowledge.
All the previous answers are correct.
What science gets the Rationalism as a model for the Method?
Physics
Maths
Biology
Psychology
What do have in common rationalism and empiricism?
They trust in achieve knowledge through senses.
They trust in achieve knowledge through reasoning.
Both believe that they can reach true knowledge with a correct method
They are completely opposed and have nothing in common.
What is the main goal for the cartesian philosophy?
Fight against the dogmas of the Catholic Church
To hesitate, doubt of everything
Create an alibi which justified the existence of God.
To search the truth
The first rule of the Method is…
Evidence
Analysis
Synthesis
Enumeration
What is the content of this first rule?
To list every possible detail of a problem.
To analyse every problem into as many parts as are necessary.
To find the easiest solution and work up to the most difficult.
Never believe anything unless you know it to be true.
An evident knowledge must me…
Uncertain
Mathematical
Clear and distinct
The only evident knowledge is God
The main goal of the Methodic Doubt is…
To doubt of everything
To find a true knowledge, evident, clear and distinct.
To prove God’s existence
To prove that the Devil actually exists and he is the cause of our doubt
First thing of which Descartes doubt in his Methodic Doubt
The existence of an Evil Demon or Evil Genius who mess up with our minds
Wakefulness and dream
Senses
Reason
First truth, first true knowledge evident, clear and distinct:
We must doubt of our entire reality.
God is an innate idea; therefore, God exists.
The human being has free will, the determinism doesn’t exist.
I think, therefore I am.
Which philosopher wrote about the simultaneity of human consciousness, thought and existence, centuries before Decart?
Plato
Avicena
Nietzsche
Hume
Which kind of idea was not defined by Descartes?
Adventitious
Innates
Suspicious
Factitious
The idea of perfection and the idea of infinite or boundless are both…
Adventitious
Innates
Factitious
None of them, these ideas are far more superior.
In which philosopher from the Middle Age based Descartes part of his demonstration of the God’s existence?
Thomas Aquinas
Aristotle
Saint Augustine
Raymond Lulio
The theory of the objective reality of the ideas says that...
The ideas are some kind of reality outside our material world
Every idea must have a cause that will be proportional to this idea.
The only idea that truly exist is the idea of God
The ideas are creations of our own mind, so they're all false.
The Theory of the Objective Reality of the Ideas says that the ideas must have a cause that will be proportional to these ideas so...
What does it means? Why these theory is so important to the demonstration of God's existence?
Our mind is perfect, so we create the idea of God ourselves.
All the ideas which come from our mind are perfect, the error is not possible
If we have the idea of infinite, this idea must come from God.
All the previous answers are correct.
Which philosophers disagree with the Ontological argument for the existence of God?
Tomas Aquinas and Kant
Saint Anselm of Canterbury and David Hum
Saint Augustine and Saint Anselm of Canterbury
All the philosophers but Descartes refuse this argument.
The word “substance” in cartesian philosophy means….
It is a synonymous for the material world.
An entity which only needs of itself (or God) to exist.
It makes reference to a hidden, more real and afterlife world.
It is a synonymous for the human soul.
Which one is not a substance for Decart?
Res infinita
Res cogitans
Res exensa
Res publica
Which qualities of the res extensa can we measure?
Primary qualities
Secondary qualities
Tertiary qualities
All of them are measurable.
Our body is not free, because it obeys to universal physic laws. We call that cartesian theory....
Rationalism
Mechanism
Anthropology
Slaverism
According to Descartes or freedom lies in our…
Understanding
Perception
Body
Will
Which is, according to Descartes the point that connect the body and the soul?
Heart
Brain
Lungs
Pineal gland
Which ones are not a characteristic of the passions of the soul?
Irrational
Evil
Involuntary
Aware
At his Provisional Moral, Descartes give some tips in order to guide our life in the meantime we find the truth...
Which one is not one of them?
Respect the laws of my country
Maintain the religion that I have been taught since I was young
Always try to work in different changing paths in life and science.
Never abandon one path in live, despite is still uncertain.
We can explain the entire reality through maths.... Who defend this idea?
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The teacher
The student
Both
None of them
