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Unit 1. Sec. 3-5 (Greek Philosophy)

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does philosophy mean?

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2.

Accelerated only: What questions does metaphysics ask? (Check all the apply)

a)

What can we know?

b)

How did we get here?

c)

What is good?

d)

What exists?

3.

Accelerated only: What questions does epistemology ask?

a)

Why are we here? (Meaning of life)

b)

What is pizza?

c)

What is knowledge?

d)

What can we know?

4.

Accelerated only: What questions does ethics ask?

a)

What is good?(What is bad?)

b)

Why are we here? (Purpose)

c)

What is knowledge?

d)

How do we think?

5.

What is the Socratic Problem?

a)

It takes place through dialogue.

b)

The asking of questions in order to make someone critically think/reflect

c)

The fact that Socrates did not write anything, and most of what we know comes from Plato.

d)

It can lead to appreciating another's viewpoint.

6.

What is the Socratic Method? (Check all that apply)

a)

It takes place in the form of a dialogue.

b)

It was Socrates's primary means of teaching (and communication).

c)

It is the asking of questions in order to get someone to critically think/reflect.

d)

It is the breakdown of things into its various causes.

7.

What happened to Socrates? (Check all that apply)

a)

He was brought to court on false charges.

b)

He drank hemlock poison after being condemned.

c)

He made many enemies.

d)

He was exiled to China, where he lived the rest of his days.

8.

Where did Plato live?

a)

Rome

b)

Sparta

c)

Ithaca

d)

Athens

9.

Which was not one of Plato's main ideas?

a)

The Tripartite Soul

b)

The Happy Life

c)

The Republic (Tripartite City)

d)

Systematic Logic

10.

What are the three parts of the soul according to Plato? (Check all that apply)

a)

Rational

b)

Appetitive

c)

Divine

d)

Spirited

11.

Describe how the tripartite soul corresponds to the tripartite city.

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12.

Who should the ruler of the Tripartite City, according to Plato?

a)

The Supreme Mind

b)

A philosopher-king

c)

Descendants of Pericles

d)

A military dictator

13.

What does the cave represent in Plato's allegory of the cave?

a)

The world we are born into

b)

The world where we never compromise on our values

c)

The world as it really is

d)

Reason

14.

What does the sun represent in Plato's allegory of the cave?

a)

God

b)

The light of reason

c)

Life and death

d)

The illusion of reality

15.

 

What do the shadows represent in Plato's allegory of the cave?

a)

Life and death

b)

The illusion of reality

c)

Things as they really are

d)

The world we are born into

16.

According to Aristotle's logic (or Systematic Logic), the ________ cause consists of the glass (along with the raw materials to make that glass like sand, soda ash, etc.) used to make the window.

a)

Final Cause

b)

Efficient Cause

c)

Material Cause

d)

Formal Cause

17.

According to Aristotle's logic (or Systematic Logic), the window itself (in which the glass and materials were formed into) is the _________.

a)

Material Cause

b)

Formal Cause

c)

Efficient Cause

d)

Final Cause

18.

In Aristotle's logic (or Systematic Logic), the window manufacturer and the people/machinery responsible for bringing the glass and raw matter into its form of a window is the ___________.

a)

Material Cause

b)

Formal Cause

c)

Efficient Cause

d)

Final Cause

19.

Aristotle reasons that because everything has a cause behind it, then what started the chain? This is what Aristotle calls the _______ ____________.

(a)