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Where was Thales born?
Miletus
Ithaca
Babylon
Alexandria
(Select all that apply.)
Thales was...
the first Greek philosopher.
the first person to be attributed with discovering a mathematical proof.
the first person to correctly identify the "originating substance of matter."
the first astronomer.
What did Thales predict? Select all that apply.
A solar eclipse
A volcanic eruption
A good olive crop
A bad year for pyramid tourism
Which of the following did Thales discover? (Select all that apply.)
The height of a pyramid using ratios.
How to extract oil from olives.
A full year contains 365 days, not 360.
Hot air rises, while cold air sinks.
What did Thales do after he grew rich from his prediction about olive trees?
He sold and/or gave away all of his olive presses.
He rented out his presses for the rest of his life at extremely high rates, so he could continue to garner wealth without effort.
He used that money to buy more olive presses.
He used the money to build a statue of himself.
He is the student of Thales.
Anaximenes
Anaximander
Anaxagoras
Aristophanes
Thales' arche is _________________.
Air
Fire
Water
Earth
Anaximander posited that the arche is ________________.
Apeiron
Aperion
Apieron
Aiperon
For Anaximenes, __________ is the arche.
Air
Fire
Water
Earth
Who was referred to as the first philosopher?
Thales
Anaximander
Heraclitus
Plato
Paramenides
What are the first pholosophers called?
Natural philosophers
Supernatural philosophers
Abstract Philosophers
Sophists
Post- Socratic philosophers
Looking at all of nature as though it were alive is called
Animism
Anthropomorphism
Animation
Anthrophomation
The projection of human attributes onto nature is called
Anthropomorphism
Animism
Athropomophation
Animation
The Olympian religion was mainly followed by
The Greek upper class/Nobility
The Greek lower class/peasants
Homer wrote a lot about the
Olympian Religion
Dionysiac-Orphic religion
________________ consisted of a belief that the God's were irascible and amoral, that the soul survived death but with no memories or personality traits and that glory was thought to be the greatest consolation for the shadowy doom which awaited them in the grave.
Dionysiac-Orphic religion
Olympian Religion
Whoa was the God, Dionysus?
God of Wine
God of Sexual Frenzy
God of Laborers
God of Glutony
In the ________, they believed in the _________ of the soul. This belief states that the soul was born in the divine world but banished due to committing a sin and sent to this world into human bodies, animal bodies or plants which acted as a prison of the soul. This cycle of rebirths was called ________ and would continue until the soul was redeemed.
Olympian, transmigration, cycle of births
Dionysiac-Orphic, transmigration, circle of births
Olympian, migration, circle of births
Dionysiac-Orphic, postmigration, circle of births
What is another word for 'Arche' or the 'something that was in the begining'?
Physis
Element
Cosmo
Atom
Archual
The word 'cosmology' refers to ones understanding of
The origin and evolution of the universe
The rules of physics in which the universe works
The mathematical formula of the universe
A sweet cocktail
The critical tradition - critisising the teachings of those who came before you - was started by which philosopher?
Thales
Anaximander
Heraclitus
Zeno
_______ proposed a rudimentary theory of evolution in which, from a mixture of heated water and earth, arose _____ in which humans lived in their bellies until the fish burst when the humans were strong enough to fend for themselves.
Anaximander, Fish
Anaxemenes, Fish
Anaximander, Gods
Anaxemenes, Titans
Anaxemenes, Gods
Who said that from fire all things originate, and return to it again in a process of eternal cycles.
Heraclitus
Anaximander
Protagoras
Anaxemenes
Who said: “Man is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are, and of things which are not, that they are not.”
Heraclitus
Pythagoras
Protagoras
Zeno
Socrates
Who said: Everything is in a state of flux. Nothing ever "is", everything is "becoming".
Heraclitus
Protagoras
Gorgias
Zeno
Anaximander
"It is impossible to step twice into the same river"
Heraclitus
Thales
Zeno
Paramenides
________ believes all things existed somewhere between polar opposites.
Heraclitus
Anaximander
Plato
Protagoras
Who believed that all change is an illusion?
Paramenides
Zeno
Pythagoras
Empedocles
What is the correct oder?
1. The pre-systematic period
2. The pre-scientific period
3.The scientific period
1. The pre-scientific period
2. The scientific period
3. The pre-systematic period
Ancient Magic based rituals and spells are considered by philosophers as mans first attempt to
Seize control over his own fate
Feel superior than others through deceit
Get closer to the God's in the Myths they were told
Be scientific
3 Common myths were
Origin of the world
Origin of man
Origin of the gods
Origin of stars
Origin of the moon
What is Zeno's paradox?
The halving of a distance between an arrow fired and the target, means that it could never hit the target as you can keep on halving the number.
When a donkey was carrying the salt bag, he tumbled down a stream, and the salt bag on his back also fell into the water. Since most of the salt got dissolved in water, the salt bag became very light. But where did the salt go?
What came first? the chicken or the egg?
If infinity is logically a real number according to mathematics, then howcome we cannot divide it in two?
What is the logos?
An eternal and unchanging truth and explanation for everything in the universe.
An argument that boasts a logical explanation.
Pythagoras' method to predict weather cycles.
Pythagoras' theorom on triangles and right angles.
What did pythagoras come up with?
Pythagorean theorem
Harmonious blending of ton results when on string on a lyre is exactly twice as long as the other.
He thought illness resulted from disruption of the body's equilibrium.
The first school of philosophy
The pythagoreans assumed a _____ universe.
Monoist
Dualistic
Pythagoras and Parmenides thought that sensory experience alone can provide real knowledge.
Aye! Thats right laddy.
Ahh, yee be tellin lies.
The pythagoreans didn't eat beans because they make you fart and thus, would disturb the tranquility of mind necessary for seeking the truth. What else didn't they eat?
Flesh
Potatos
Pastizzi
Food not grown by themselves
Bread
Pythagoreans believed that experiences of the _____ where inferior to experiences of the _______.
Flesh; Mind
Mind; Flesh
Groin; Mind
Mind; Groin
The Pythagoreans are often seen as similar to the __________ religion.
Christian
Dionysiac-Orphic
Olympian
Jewish
Empedocles was the _____ guy.
4 elements
fire
water
air
indefinite (aiperon)
What were Empedocles two casual powers of the universe that brings all the elements together and then tears them apart?
Love and Strife
Magnetism and Depolarisation
Will and Change
Pull and Push
Empedocles theory is similar to
Law of conservation of energy
Law of elasticity
Pascal's Law
Bernoulli's Principle
Who's rudementary theory is this? : “Many neckless heads sprang up … . Naked arms wandered, devoid of shoulders, and eyes strayed alone, begging for foreheads” “Many grew double-headed, double-chested—man-faced oxen arose, and again ox-headed men—creatures mixed partly from male partly from female nature”
Empedocles
Heraclitus
Anaximander
Anaxemenes
Who was the first philosopher who offered a theory of perception were the outside environment throw off tiny emanations which enter the blood through the pores of the body? And what are these emanatios called?
Empedocles; Eidola
Empedocles; Miniola
Hippocrates; Eidola
Hippocrates; Miniola
Wheras ___________ postulated four elements from which everything is derived, _________ postulated an infinite number of elemnets that he refered to as "seeds".
Empedocles; Anaxagoras
Empedocles; Democritus
Anaxamander; Empedocles
Empedocles; Anaxemenes
Anaxemenes; Anaxagoras
What was Anaxagoras's single exception to his claim hat everything contains everything?
Mind
Fire
Light
Dark
God
Who is considered the last of the early Greek cosmologists?
Democritus
Anaxemander
Anaxagoras
Empedocles
Hippocrates
Who was the dude who first came up with the concept of 'atoms'?
Democritus
Anaxemander
Anaxagoras
Empedocles
Hippocrates
Demoncritus's view was
Deterministic
Non-deterministic
What is reductionism?
The idea that the origin and phenomena of life are dependent on a 'life force'.
A tendency to postulate a separation into independent entities of things that can be only verbally separated.
The practice of analysing and describing a complex phenomenon in terms of its simple or fundamental constituents
What is Elementism?
The idea that the origin and phenomena of life are dependent on a 'life force'.
A tendency to postulate a separation into independent entities of things that can be only verbally separated.
The practice of analysing and describing a complex phenomenon in terms of its simple or fundamental constituents
What is Vitalism?
The idea that the origin and phenomena of life are dependent on a 'life force'.
A tendency to postulate a separation into independent entities of things that can be only verbally separated.
The practice of analysing and describing a complex phenomenon in terms of its simple or fundamental constituents
Attempting to explain human behavior in terms of biochemical processes would exemplify ________, as would attempting to explain biochemical processes in terms of physics. Attempting to understand human thought processes by isolating and studying one process at a time or attempting to understand complex human behavior by isolating specific habits or stimulus-response associations would exemplify ________.
reductionism; elementism
elementism; reductionism
vitalism; elementism
vitalism; reductionism
Democritus was both a reductionist and an elementist. He was not a vitalist.
truth be told
NU
What was Democritus' perception theory?
Atoms emanate from the surfaces of objects and enter the body through one of the 5 sensory systems.
Eidola's emanate from the surfaces of objects and enter the body through blood capilaries.
Light reflects off objects, creating an image in our mind.
The fire atoms in our mind mimics and copies the outside world.
Which naturalistic philosopher didn't believe in life after death?
Democratus
Heraclitus
Pythagoras
Paramenides
Empedocles
Who said "“From what does not exist, nothing can come into being, and for what exists to be destroyed is impossible and unaccomplishable”"
Empedocles
Democratus
Hippocratus
Heraclitus
Empedocles was a
Vitalist
Conservationist
Elementist
Reductionist
Who does this image refer to?
Dionysis
Asclepius
Eros
Athena
Alcmaeon
Alcmaeon of croton eqated health with
Restoring equilibrium
Superstition and rites
Not eating flesh
Smoking at least 1 cigarette a day
In the symbol of Aclepius (a caduceus) , what does the snake symbolise?
Mystery
Power
Knowledge
Health
What is an explanation for why temple medicine kinda worked?
The ceremonies were lengthy
The Greek gods are real and this is proof
The herbs used as fragrance were actually medicinal
The peace of mind that comes with the tranquility of a spiritual place, helped relax and heal the bodies of the patients
Where did Alcmaeon conclude mental functions arose from?
Brain
Heart
Liver
Groin
Who is believed to be the father of medicine?
Hippocrates
Alcmaeon
Empedocles
Pythagoras
Hippocratics associated the four elements with four humors in the body. There 4 humours are:
Black bile - earth
Yellow bile - air
phlegm - water
Blood - Fire
Black bile - air
Yellow bile - earth
phlegm - Fire
Blood - Water
Black bile - air
Yellow bile - Fire
phlegm - earth
Blood - Water
Black bile - Earth
Yellow bile - Water
phlegm - Air
Blood - Fire
According to the Hippocratics, what is the WORST thing a physician could do?
To interfere with the body's natural healing power
To disrupt a patient midway through the treatment
To mention any sort of superstitious sayings such as "now we pray"
To show any doubt regarding the success of the treatment
"I will use my power to help the sick to the best of my ability and judgment; I will abstain from harming or wronging any man by it." This is part of the
Hippocratic Oath
Socratic Oath
Alcmeons Quote
Aristotilian Oath
Who associated Hippocrates' four humours of the body with four temperaments (temperare- to mix)?
Galen
Alcmaeon
Xenophanes
Kagan
Galen’s Extension of Hippocrates’ Theory of Humors - tick all that are correct
Phlegm - phlegmatic - sluggish, unemotional /
Blood - sanguine - cheerful
Black bile - melancholic - sad
Yellow bile - choleric - quick-tempered, fiery
Yellow bile - melancholic - sad /
Blood - choleric - quick-tempered, fiery
Black bile - melancholic -sad / Phlegm - phlegmatic - sanguine - cheerful
