TRUE/FALSE - MODULE 2

What did Socrates hope to achieve by practicing the Socratic Method?

He wanted to discover adequate definitions that would give knowledge of the essential nature of things, especially traits of good character

When the Delphi Oracle pronounced Socrates to be the wisest of people, Socrates thought the pronouncement referred to the fact that he:

Was aware of his own ignorance

After his trial and conviction for 'corrupting' the mind of young men and for not believing in the city's god, Socrates dies by __

drinking hemlock

How are the Forms apprehended, according to Plato?

by reason, intellectually

Plato had three famous theories:

The Theory of Knowledge, The Theory of Love and Becoming, The Theory of Forms.

Where do the Forms exist, according to Plato?

in a immaterial realm, ageless and eternal

The Theory of Forms by Plato are:

Unchanging, unmoving and indivisible

Three of Plato's more enlightening and well-known dialogs are:

Apology, Republic and Meno

For Plato the ultimate way of knowing and realizing truth was through ____

love

True/False: Socrates did not merely engage in sophistry; he was not interested in arguing for the sake of arguing

true

True/False: The dialectic method is a search to discover the essential natural definitions of important concepts

true

True/False: Plato thought that physical objects are totally unreal and did not exist

false

True/False: Some Forms are higher than others, according to Plato

true

True/False: Platonic dualism was utterly rejected by early Christianity

False

True/False: Socrates' Theory of Knowledge came years before his Theory of Forms

False

True/False: Cratylus thought you couldn't step into the same river even once

true

True/False: Protagoras was rejecting absolute knowledge, according to Plato, when he said that man is the measure of all things

true

True/False: According to Plato, true knowledge is truly real and unchangeable as compared to objects of sense perception

true

True/False: Plato believed that it is enough to know the truth

false

__ was most famous for his Theory of Forms and his two-realm doctrine: two separate worlds with two types of knowledge

Plato

___ was the mentor and philosophy's most illustrious practitioner fo the dialectic method

Socrates

___ were ancient Greek teacher of rhetoric, which through them moral philosophy began

Sophists

The ____ ___ ___ is plato's central metaphysical concept

Theory of Forms

___ __ said there is the realm of particular, changing, sense-perceptible things but also the realm of forms, eternal, fixed and source of all reality

Platonic Dualism

The ___ of the ____ ___ used to contrast knowledge with belief/opinion

Theory of the Divided Line

___ is one who questions or suspends judgement on the possibility of knowledge

skeptic

Aristotle's primary area of interest was

metaphysics

Aristotle's works include ___ __ __

metaphysic, poetics and Nicomachean ethics

What is a thing, according to Aristotle?

a combination of a hunk of matter with a certain form

What does Aristotle mean by the efficient cause of a thing?

what made it

What did Aristotle say about all change?

It is a movement from potentiality to actuality.

Which of the following is not one of the ten basic categories Aristotle used to describe the ways in which humans think about things?

Weight

How many souls did Aristotle believe humans have?

3

What is a syllogism

A kind of inference

True/False: In Aristotle's opinion each thing is a combination of matter and form

true

True/False: Aristotle wrote Politics

true

True/False: The to 'what purpose does it serve?' is what Aristotle called the formal cause

false

True/False: The to 'what made it?' is what Aristotle called the material cause

false

True/False: According to Aristotle, only matter is what makes a thing

false

True/False: Existence and substance make up essence

false

True/False: Aristotle defined humans as irrational animals

false

True/False: According to Aristotle, forms are only found within particular things

true

True/False: Aristotle believed that logic and forms of thought could show the structure of reality

true

The ___ ___ ___ is Aristotle's criticism of Plato's Theory of Forms.

Third Man Argument

____ is a greek word translated to 'thinking', 'mind', 'spirit'

nous

____ is a word that applies to more than one thing

universal

_____ ___ is what Aristotle meant by 'What is the thing?' aka where is it from?

Formal Cause

____ ___ is what Aristotle meant by 'What purpose does it serve?'

final cause

___ ___ is what Aristotle meant by 'What made it?'

efficient cause

___ ___ is what Aristotle meant by 'What is it made of?'

Material cause