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PH 200 Test 1
Bob Jones University "Ideas and Their Consequences" test one
Question | Answer |
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Who is Thales? | The father of philosophy |
What is cosmology? | The big questions about the cosmos: a vast and intricate order or design. |
What did pre-Socratic philosophers ask about cosmology? | What is everything made of? The one, or the many? |
What did Thales decide everything is made of? | Everything is made of water. |
What question is associated with Anaximander? | The question of infinite regress. |
What did Anaximander conclude for the question of what everything is made of? | What the world is made of can't be defined, everything is made of 'no thing.' |
What is the question of flux and constancy? | How much change can happen to something or someone before they are now different than they were? |
What are sophists? | Travelling 'education experts' who claimed to be able to prepare a young man for total competence in the public sphere. (the liberal arts). |
What is Socratic Irony? | A pose of ignorance which reverses the role of student and teacher with the purpose of drawing the other member of the conversation into self-contradiction. |
What is the Socratic Method? | A way of questioning someone, and also feigning ignorance, to draw truth from a person that he already possessed but did not realize. |
What is the other name for the Socratic Method? | A dialetic. |
What is summum bonum? | The highest or greatest good, the greatest good life. |
Socrates believed the seen or unseen had priority? | The unseen has priority over the seen. |