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Philosophy - summary

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Presocratics were looking for:

a)

the source of our knowledge

b)

the fundamental substance

c)

a way to defend the Christian doctrines

d)

the source of our morality

2.

Who suggested that all matter, regardless of its apparent properties, must be "water":

a)

Empedocles

b)

Anaxagoras

c)

Anaximenes

d)

Thales

3.

Who assumed that all matter was composed of four essential elements: fire, air, water, and earth?

a)

Thales

b)

Anaximenes

c)

Empedocles of Acragas

d)

Socrates

4.

Who wrote about the Sophists and described them as "the anglers"?

a)

Socrates

b)

Plato

c)

Aristotle

d)

Thales

5.

The so called "world of ideas" or "Forms" was created by:

a)

Aristotle

b)

Plato

c)

Pythagoras

d)

Socrates

6.

Who is often referred to as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and yet he wrote nothing?

a)

Pythagoras

b)

Socrates

c)

Plato

d)

Aristotle

7.

Who developed the first known classification system for plants and animals?

a)

Aristotle

b)

Plato

c)

René Descartes

d)

Thomas More

8.

Which philosopher was interested in the problem of evil?

a)

René Descartes

b)

St. Augustine

c)

Francis Bacon

d)

St. Thomas Aquinas

9.

Who decided to combine Aristotle's philosophy and the Bible (regarding the beginning of the world)?

a)

St. Augustine

b)

René Descartes

c)

St. Thomas Aquinas

d)

John Locke

10.

Which of the following philosophers belong to rationalism?

a)

René Descartes

b)

John Locke

c)

Gottfried Leibniz

d)

Francis Bacon

11.

Which of the following philosophers was NOT concerned with political philosophy?

a)

Niccolo Machiavelli

b)

St. Augustine

c)

John Locke

12.

John Locke believed that the human mind is like a blank canvas, also known as:

a)

tabula rasa

b)

ego cogito

c)

cardboard

d)

blackboard

13.

________ is a belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

a)

realism

b)

nihilism

c)

rationalism

d)

empiricism

14.

Karl Marx focused on:

a)

group conflicts

b)

source of our knowledge

c)

meaning of life

d)

fundamental substance

15.

Which philosopher combines rationalism and empiricism into transcendental idealism?

a)

Karl Marx

b)

Friedrich Nietzsche

c)

Immanuel Kant