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What is Philosophy?

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 29mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In Ancient Greece, scholars were just beginning to make the distinction between ______________ and ___________.

(2:30 - 2:37)

HINT: Two correct answers

a)

Mythos (storytelling)

b)

Bio (life)

c)

Philos (science)

d)

Logos (thought or principle)

2.

What is philosophia?

(2:50 - 2:54)

HINT: Two correct answers

a)

The love of wisdom

b)

A new way of trying to make sense of the world

c)

The fear of philosophy

d)

The love of philosophy

3.

What did the earliest philosophers mean by “philosophy?”

(2:55 - 3:05)

a)

The academic study of science

b)

The academic study of religion

c)

The academic study of feelings

d)

The academic study of anything

4.

How did scholars come to think of science and philosophy differently?

(3:15 - 3:25)

a)

Science was considered a search for answers, while philosophy was considered a way of thinking about questions.

b)

Science was considered a search for evidence, while philosophy was considered a search for truth.

c)

Science was considered a search for accuracy, while philosophy was considered a way of thinking about personal beliefs.

5.

Philosophers DO NOT mind that they may never get answers to their philosophical questions.

(3:30 - 3:35)

a)

True

b)

False

6.

What is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature of reality?

(4:28 - 4:35)

a)

Metaphysics

b)

Epistemology

c)

Value Theory

7.

What is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature and scope of knowledge?

(4:48 - 5:30)

a)

Metaphysics

b)

Epistemology

c)

Value Theory

8.

What is the branch of philosophy helps frame your thinking around what you actually do - like how you should act and what you should attach meaning to?

(5:38 - 5:46)

a)

Metaphysics

b)

Epistemology

c)

Value Theory

9.

What is the branch of Value Theory that studies & evaluates human conduct or how humans should live?

(5:04 - 6:27)

a)

Value Ethics

b)

Metaethics

c)

Aesthetics

d)

Ethics

10.

What is the branch of Value Theory that studies & evaluates beauty and art?

(6:28 - 6:53)

a)

Value Ethics

b)

Metaethics

c)

Aesthetics

d)

Ethics

11.

What do “aestheticians'' believe about beauty?

(6:51 - 7:06)

a)

Beauty is objectively true.

b)

Beauty is subjective, based on preferences.

c)

Beauty doesn't exist.

d)

Beauty is only found in art.

12.

Which of these are examples of "doing philosophy" that you might do every day?

HINT: Three correct answers.

a)

Arguing with your parents

b)

Wondering if you should date someone

c)

Deciding to eat a salad instead of a ham and cheese hot pocket

d)

Sleeping

13.

What is one “big philosophical question” proposed in the video that you find most interesting?

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