WorksheetsSelf, death and afterlife
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Plato was alive in...
Ancient Greece
Ancient Rome
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Britain
Plato argued using the ____________ of the cave.
allegory
analogy
example
story
The allegory of the cave showed that...
the things we see in the world are 'shadows'
the things we see in the world are real
the things we see in the world are there to trick us
everyone uses reason to explore the world
For Plato, this means that there must be, somewhere, a perfect ________ of everything in the world.
Form
Object
Copy
Version
Forms are... (select multiple options)
perfect
constant
unchanging
empirically verifiable
in the world
For Plato, what is our soul made up of?
1 part
2 parts
3 parts
4 parts
The 3 parts are...
Reason/logic
Dark horse
Light horse
Evil horse
Good horse
Plato was a...
dualist
materialist
realist
trialist
For Aristotle, a soul is...
what gives something its essential nature
separate from the physical body
non-physical
given by God
The soul of a human is...
intellect
the brain
spiritual
impossible to decipher
Descartes was a...
dualist
materialist
scientist
deist
Descartes starts his argument by...
doubting everything
reading other people's ideas
using scientific observation
asking other people for their thoughts
Descartes doubted... (select multiple options)
other people's ideas/arguments
his preconceived notions/opinions
his body
the world around him
whether he had a soul
Descartes then produces his most famous quote:
"I doubt therefore I think; I think therefore I am."
"I think therefore I doubt; I doubt therefore I am."
"I doubt therefore I think; I am therefore I think."
I doubt therefore I think. I think therefore I doubt."
In Latin:
"Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum"
"Cogito ergo dubito; sum ergo cogito."
"Dubito cogito ergo; cogito sum ergo"
"I can doubt that I have a __________, but I cannot doubt that I exist. Therefore, I am not a _______."
body
brain
sense
truth
For Descartes, he had a clear and distinct idea of himself as a...
thinking, non-extended thing
thinking, extended thing
non-thinking, extended thing
non-thinking, non-extended thing
The mind (soul) is linked to the physical body through...
a certain part of the brain
the mind
the heart
the whole body
Aristotle was a monist
True
False
Who said Descartes view on substance dualism was a 'category mistake?'
Hick
Hume
Ryle
Dawkins
