test questions of philosophy

"The sea is the purest and the impurest water. Fish can drink it, and it is good for them; to men, it is undrinkable and destructive." Which concept does this quote belong to?

"The sea is the purest and the impurest water. Fish can drink it, and it is good for them; to men, it is undrinkable and destructive." Which concept does this quote belong to?

Dialectic of Heraclitus

"The unexamined life is not worth living"

Plato, Apology

Of all the means which are procured by wisdom to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

Epicurus

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

Kantian categorical imperative

It is held to be the mark of a prudent man to be able to deliberate well about what is good and advantageous for himself, not in some one department, for instance, what is good for his health or strength, but what is advantageous as a means to the good life in general... "which concept fits best to this quotation?

Phronesis

"Nous set in order all things"Who is the author of this quotation?

Anaxagoras

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage. All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him."What is the source of this quotation?

Dhammapada

"I should bring to light the true riches of our souls opening up to each of us the means whereby we can find within ourselves without any help from anyone else all the knowledge that we may need for the conduct of life."Who is the author of this quote?

Descartes

"When the soul and the body are joined together, nature directs the one to serve and be ruled, and the other to rule and be master. ...the soul is like the divine and the body like the mortal."Who is the author of this quotation?

Plato

"I had long before remarked that, in relation to practice, it is sometimes necessary to adopt, as if above doubt, opinions which we discern to be highly uncertain, as has been already said; but as I then desired to give my attention solely to the search after truth, I thought that a procedure exactly the opposite was called for, and that I ought to reject as absolutely false all opinions in regard to which I could suppose the least ground for doubt, in order to ascertain whether after that there remained aught in my belief that was wholly indubitable. ..."Who is the author of that quote?

Descartes

But immediately upon this I observed that, whilst I thus wished to think that all was false, it was absolutely necessary that I, who thus thought, should be somewhat; and as I observed that this truth, I think, therefore I am (COGITO ERGO SUM), was so certain and of such evidence that no ground of doubt, however extravagant, could be alleged by the sceptics capable of shaking it, I concluded that I might, without scruple, accept it as the first principle of the philosophy of which I was in search.Who is the author of this quotation?

Descartes Discourse on the Method

What is the aim of koan?

to share knowledge without dogmas

"This feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy" Who is the author of that quotation?

Plato

the highest of all the goods that action can achieve. [2] As far as the name goes, we may almost say that the great majority of mankind are agreed about this; for both the multitude and persons of refinement speak of it as Happiness.Who is the author of this quote?

Aristotle

one acts with a deep but effortless involvement that removes from awareness the worries and frustrations of everyday life.Which concept fits best with this quote?

flow

"Think of the most wonderful experience of your life: the happiest moments, ecstatic moments, moments of rapture, perhaps from being in love, or from listening to music or suddenly 'being hit' by a book or painting, or from some creative moment."Who is the author of this quote?

Maslow

My words are easy to understand and easy to perform,Yet no man under heaven knows them or practices themWho is the author of this quote?

Lao Tzu

Virtue does not come from money, but from virtue comes money and all other good things to man, both to the individual and to the state"(Plato: Apology 30b)Who has written this quote?

Plato

"Though the logos is common, the many live as if they had a wisdomof their own."

Heraclitus

"The highest and primary .......... is the intellection or will, beneficent to all things, of the primary god; and in conformity with it all things divine are primordially arranged throughout, each as is best and most excellent"What word fits the dotted space best?

Providence

"Heraclitus and Hegel's radical concept of life as a process and not as a substance is paralleled in the Eastern world by the philosophy of the Buddha. There is no room in Buddhist thought for the concept of any enduring permanent substance, neither things nor the self. Nothing is real but processes. Contemporary scientific thought has brought about a renaissance of the philosophical concepts of "process thinking" by discovering and applying them to the natural sciences."Who is the author of this quotation?

Fromm

"Something marvelous has happened to me. I was transported to the seventh heaven. There sat all the gods assembled. As a special dispensation, I was granted the favor of making a wish. 'What do you want,' asked Mercury. 'Do you want youth, or beauty, or power, or a long life, or the most beautiful girl, or anyone of the other glorious things we have in the treasure chest? Choose-but only one thing.' For a moment I was bewildered; then I addressed the gods, saying: My esteemed contemporaries, I choose one thing - that I may always have the laughter on my side. Not one of the gods said a word; instead, all of them began to laugh. From that I concluded that my wish was granted and decided that the gods knew how to express themselves with good taste, for it would indeed have been inappropriate to reply solemnly: It is granted to you "Who is the author of this quotation?

Kierkegaard

"This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-hearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and more of one's potentialities. It involves the courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life."Who is the author of this quotation?

Rogers

"For, since consciousness always accompanies thinking, and it is that which makes everyone to be what he calls self, and thereby distinguishes himself from all other thinking things, in this alone consists personal identity, i.e. the sameness of a rational being. "Who is the author of this quotation?

John Locke

"How should we explain to someone what a game is? I imagine that we should describe games to him, and we might add: "This and similar things are called 'games' ". And do we know any more about it ourselves? Is it only other people whom we cannot tell exactly what a game is?—But this is not. ignorance. We do not know the boundaries because none have been drawn."Who is the author of this quote?

Wittgenstein

"Caesar is and" What is this an example for according to?

Pseudo-statement by Carnap

My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.) He must surmount these propositions; then he sees the world rightly."Who is the author of this quote?

Wittgenstein

"To man the world is twofold, in accordance with, his twofold attitude. The attitude of man is twofold, in accordance with the twofold nature of the primary words which he speaks. The primary words are not isolated words, but combined words. The one primary word is the combination I-Thou. The other primary word is the combination I-It."Who is the author of this quotation?

Buber

'Beautiful' is an adjective, so you are inclined to say: 'This has a certain quality that of being beautiful'. In order to get clear about aesthetic words, what do we have to describe according to him?

Way of living

In order to get clear about aesthetic words you have to describe ways of living wrote Wittgenstein

What is the first step of the "ladder of inference"?

Observation

"What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know."Who is the author of this quote?

Saint Augustine

What is the Gadamerian concept of fusion of horizons about?

Understanding

„belong to the particular individual. For everyone has (besides vagaries of human nature in general) his own special cave or den which scatters and discolours the light of nature. Now this comes either of his own unique and singular nature; or his education and association with others, or the books he reads and the several authorities of those whom he cultivates and admires, or the different impressions as they meet in the soul, be the soul possessed and prejudiced, or steady and settled, or the like; so that the human spirit (as it is allotted to particular individuals) is evidently a variable thing, all muddled, and so to speak a creature of chance..."What is this quotation about?

Idols of the cave

"One path only is left for us to speak of, namely, that It is. In this path are very many tokens that what is is uncreated and indestructible; for it is complete, immovable, and without end. Nor was it ever, nor will it be; for now it is, all at once, a continuous one."(Parmenides VIII. fragment ) "For what kind of origin for it wilt thou look for? In what way and from what source could it have drawn its increase? . . . I shall not let thee say nor think that it came from what is not; for it can neither be thought nor uttered that anything is not. And, if it came from nothing, what need could have made it arise later rather than sooner? Therefore must it either be altogether or be not at all....." (Parmenides VIII. fragment) ....Who is the author of this quotation?In self-test there was repetition sentence which is wrong

Parmenides

"...derived as if from the mutual agreement and association of the human race, which I call Idols of the Market on account of men's commerce and partnerships. For men associate through conversation, but words are applied according to the capacity of ordinary people. Therefore shoddy and inept application of words lays siege to the intellect in wondrous ways"Who wrote this quotation?

Francis Bacon

"Once upon a time, I, ........, dreamt Iwas a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, toall intents and purposes a butterfly. I wasconscious only of my happiness as a butterfly,unaware that I was Chou. Soon I awaked, andthere I was, veritably myself again. Now I do notknow whether I was then a man dreaming I wasa butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly,dreaming I am a man. Between a man and abutterfly, there is necessarily a distinction. Thetransition is called the transformation of materialthings "Who is the author of this quotation?

Chuang Tzu

"PROP. XV. Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived."Who is the author of this quote?

Spinoza

"...In the theological state, the human mind, seeking the of beings, the first and final causes (the origin and purpose) of all effects — in short, absolute knowledge — supposes all phenomena to be produced by the immediate action of supernatural beings."Who is the author of this quote?

Comte

"The one and only condition, I believe, which is necessary in order to secure for philosophy in the near future an achievement surpassing all that has hitherto been accomplished by philosophers, is the creation of a school of men with scientific training and philosophical interests, unhampered by the traditions of the past, and not misled by the literary methods of those who copy the ancients in all except their merits.Who is the author of this quote?

Bertrand Russell

„in all departments of knowledge, as experience proves,anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker ofapprehension than one who has not."Who is the author of that quote?

Plato

"Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend almost all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like... Normal science, for example, often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments."Who is the author of this quote?

Thomas Kuhn

If observation shows that the predicted effect is definitely absent, then the theory is simply refuted. The theory is incompatible with certain possible results of observation— Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it. Testability is falsifiability;...Who is author of this quote?

Popper

"...Aristotle's Physica, Ptolemy's Almagest, Newton's Principia and Opticks, Franklin's Electricity, Lavoisier's Chemistry, and Lyell's Geology. ..Their achievement was sufficiently unprecedented to attract an enduring group of adherents away from competing modes of scientific activity. Simultaneously, it was sufficiently open-ended to leave all sorts of problems for the redefined group of practitioners to resolve. Achievements that share these two characteristics I shall henceforth refer to as ............ a term that relates closely to 'normal science.Which term fits best to the dotted place in this quote?

Paradigms

My problem perhaps first took the simple form, "What is wrong with Marxism, psycho-analysis, and individual psychology? Why are they so different from physical theories, from Newton's theory, and especially from the theory of relativity?... These theories appear to be able to explain practically everything that happened within the fields to which they referred... It was precisely this fact—that they always fitted, that they were always confirmed—which in the eyes of their admirers constituted the strongest argument in favor of these theories. It began to dawn on me that this apparent strength was in fact their weakness.Who is the author of this quote?

Popper

Which concept of freedom can be seen as the discovery of stoic philosophers?

Inner freedom of the person

What was the field that pythagoream matamata? (which is the origin of the word "mathematics") covered? multiple select

Geometry

Arithmetic

Music

Astronomy

"One acts with a deep but effortless involvement that removes from awareness the worries and frustrations of everyday life"

flow

What is the philosophical concept that connects virtue and excellence?

árete