Philosophy quiz 2 study questions

What is the name of the parable that best describes the unregenerated person's approach to understanding what reality is?

The parable of blind men and an elephant

What does the above parable illustrate?

The philosophers essentialize their partial understanding of reality and present it as the whole picture of reality.

Give two reasons (in the order presented in class) a Christian should study philosophy and biblical support for each reason. (Please spell out the entire name of the books of the Bible.)

For sanctification (Romans 12:2)

For evangelism (1 Peter 3:15)

What is the name of the discourse that rejects spiritual explanations of the existence of reality and resorts to naturalistic explanations instead?

epistemic discourse

What does Thales say is the substance/essence of reality?

water

What is the name of the pre-Socratic philosopher that believed the reality is made of Apeiron ("infinite" or "boundless")?

Anaximander

What does Anaximenes say the substance/essence of reality is?

air

What is the name of the pre-Socratic philosopher that believed the reality is made of four elements (i.e., earth, air, water, and fire)?

Empedocles

What is the name of the elemental particles that Leucippus and Democritus say form everything in the world?

atoms

Name two dualisms that Pythagoras taught.

The dualism of soul and body.

The dualism of form and matter.

Of what does he say that the form is made up?

numbers

Parmenides separated reality into (transient and changing) appearance and (permanent and unchanging) what?

"being"

What are the three characteristics of Heraclitus's view of reality?

1. Fire

2. Flux

3. Unity of the Opposites

Name the two pre-Socratic philosophers that influenced Plato.

Permenides and Heraclitus