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WorksheetsAncient Philosophy Exam Review
Total questions: 66
Worksheet time: 33mins
The word “philosophy” means “l__________” (philos [love] + sophia [wisdom]
love for knowledge
love oneself
love of God
love of wisdom
It is the heart of philosophy. It investigates the existence of the universe and of ALL things in it.
Metaphysics
Logic
Epistemology
Ethics
It investigates KNOWLEDGE. This branch of philosophy answer What does it mean “to know”? and What can we know?
Logic
Ethics
Epistemology
Metaphysics
The branch of philosophy that studies what actions are morally right and wrong. It answer the question Is there a right and wrong?
Logic
Ethics
Metaphysics
Epistemology
______studies right reasoning and argumentation. It answer the question Do all claims have a truth value?
Logic
Metaphysics
Epistemology
Social
Western philosophy traces its historical origin to (a) in the
6th-century B.C.
He was a 6th-century philosopher who taught water was the source
of everything. He was also the first person to claim the Earth was spherical, and
that it floated on water.
Thales
Pythagoras
Heraclitus
Parmenides
He was another 6th-century philosopher who taught that abstract
numbers were the source of everything. These numbers formed patterns, which in
turn constituted material things.
Thales
Pythagoras
Heraclitus
Parmenides
He taught that there is only
being, and no becoming. Change is thus an illusion. He reached this conclusion
because he thought being and non-being exhausted everything in reality.
Heraclitus
Parmenides
Thales
Pythagoras
He taught that fire was the
source of everything.
More importantly, he taught that
everything was in a constant
state of flux. Nothing is
permanent.
Heraclitus
Parmenides
Thales
Pythagoras
A corollary of Parmenides’ philosophy is that there is only being, and all reality is
one. Moreover, change is an illusion. This is called (a) .
Heraclitus taught that
everything was in a constant
state of flux. Nothing is
permanent.
There is no stable being, there
is only becoming. This is called
(a) .
They were traveling educators who charged fees for
teaching young men grammar, rhetoric, and philosophy.
Sophist
Thomist
existentialist
pragmatist
The Sophists had a bad reputation for being relativists with regard to knowledge,
which meant they were skeptical about the ultimate nature of reality.
True
False
Socrates used questions to expose a
person’s fundamental assumptions. This
came to be known as the (a) .
A lot of ancient Greek philosophers were concerned about change. It was obvious
that things changed, but it was hard to explain how.
True
False
Pythagoras also believed in the immortality of the
soul and reincarnation.
True
False
What branch philosophy deals with questions regarding reality and existence?
Ontology
Metaphysics
Rationalism
Epistemology
He proposed that everything that exist is based on a higher order or plan which he called logos
Pythagoras
Diogenes of Sinope
Heraclitus
Plato
He was a practical philosopher and believed that philosophy could enable man to live a life of happiness
Anaximenes
Epicurus
Plato
Socrates
Emphasis on the the human person; use of philosophy to understand society, nature, and humanity
Humanism
Empiricism
Rationalism
Stoicism
A student of Socrates, he wrote down his teacher's writings and incorporated some of his own ideas into them. He's known for his dialectic method.
(a)
Emphasis on morality, virtue, calm, and emotional fortitude
Humanism
Empiricism
Rationalism
Stoicism
He devoted himself to studying the causes of natural phenomena. He was among the first to propose that matter is composed of tiny particles called atoms
Anaximenes
Diogenes of Sinope
Heraclitus
Democritus
They were excellent public speakers. A group of teacher who travelled around Greece to teach peple who wants to learn.
(a)
Belief on one God (monotheism), who has a role in the ultimate destiny of mankind; The Jewish people are God's chosen people.
Hinduism
Christianity
Judaism
The Head of the Philosophos
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Pythagoras
Aristotle created...
Theory of Forms
Socratic Method
Deductive Reasoning
Dialectic Method
Philosophy is from a greek word "philo" which means _____ and "sophia" which means _____.
positive / thinking
love / wisdom
beginning / reasoning
beauty / logical
Who is considered the first proper philosopher?
Aristotle
Plato
Socrates
Thales
This is one of the branches of philosophy that study things that cannot be experienced.
Metaphysics
Epistemology
Ethics
Aesthetics
This branch of philosophy studies reasoning and giving strong arguments.
Logic
Ethics
Social Philosophy
Epistemology
This branch of philosophy studies and evaluates human conduct.
Aesthetics
Logic
Ethics
Metaphysics
This branch of philosophy studies nature and scope of knowledge.
Epistemology
Logic
Metaphysics
Aesthetics
Who was considered as the father of western philosophy?
Plato
Alexander the Great
Socrates
Aristotle
Numbers and time are examples of conceptual object.
True
False
Empirical objects are things that your senses cannot confirm.
True
False
According to him, everything is water.
Thales
Immanuel Kant
Alexander the Great
Plato
Who compared universe as a bottomless abyss?
Thales
Immanuel Kant
Alexander the Great
Plato
Aristotle
He was the first person to suggest the Earth was a sphere
Pythagoras
Confucious
Laozi
Aristotle
Who was a student of Socrates?
Plato
Alexander the Great
Aristotle
Pericules
What other name did people called Aristotle?
the master
the genius
great student
great thinker
What does Socrates believe is dangerous in life?
evil people
false beliefs
believing in yourself
trying to understand the world
During what age was Socrates born?
Bronze
Dark
Golden
Pink
Which philosopher studied at Plato's Academy?
Socrates
Aristotle
Alexander the Great
Pericles
Which of the following 4 are NOT one of Plato's works?
Meno
Phaedo
Symposium
The Athenian Constitution
Student of Socrates
(a)
He was put on trial for corrupting the city's youth which led to his death by drinking hemlock.
(a)
In which one or ones of the following works was Socrates' trial, imprisonment, and death recounted by Plato?
Apology
Crito
Phaedo
Meno
Poetics
He was a tutor to Alexader the Great
Plato
Alexander I
Aristotle
Socrates
Student of Plato
Confucious
Diogenes
Aristotle
Socrates
Many of Aristotle's works come from his lectures at _________
The Academy
Athens
The Lyceum
The Symposium
. His philosophical output includes the Nicomachean Ethics, Physics, and Metaphysics
Confucious
Diogenes
Aristotle
Socrates
His Poetics discusses the types of drama and considers an effect of tragedies known as catharsis, or the purging of bad feelings
Confucious
Plato
Aristotle
Socrates
Founded the school of Cynicism
Antisthenes
Diogenes
Epicurus
Aristotle
According to legend, he lived in a tub or a barrel on the street, and wandered Athens holding a lamp in his futile search for an honest man
Antisthenes
Diogenes
Epicurus
Socrates
Founder of the school of Epicureanism who believed that pleasure was the highest good, and that the absence of pain (aponia) was the highest pleasure.
Epicurus
Confucius
Aristotle
Diogenes
He is most famous today for “Zeno’s paradoxes,” most notably the Dichotomy Paradox
Zeno of Elea
Diogenes
Zeno of Citium
Epicurus
Known as the "first philosopher"
Thales
Anaximenes
Cicero
Diogenes
Though he is better remembered today for his role in the political life of the Roman Republic, he (sometimes known as “Tully”) was also a significant philosopher.
Cicero
Thales
Diogenes
Zeno of Elea
He is credited with discovering that any triangle whose hypotenuse is the diameter of a circle must be a right triangle. He is sometimes thought of as the founder of a “Milesian school” of philosophy
(a)
On the Republic, Hortensius, On the Nature of the Gods, and On the Laws, were all authored by this man
(a)
His extensive writings include treatises on rhetoric, philosophy and politics, and he is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.
Cicero
Caesar
Alexander the Great
Plato
Founder of the school of stoicism
Zeno of Elea
Diogenes
Zeno of Citium
Epicurus
His philosophical output includes Nicomachean Ethics, which argues that virtues consist in a “golden mean” between two extremes.
Socrates
Aristotle
Alexander the Great
Pericles
Epistemology is
The theory of knowledge
The knowledge of theory
The theory of ethics
The study of ethics
