PHIL 2000 Final Exam with correct
answers
pre-socratic philosophy was primarily concerned with what questions? - correct answer-what and how
epicureans were typically from what demographic - correct answer-elites
what was the school that Plato set up - correct answer-the academy
what element did thales say all reality was made of - correct answer-water
what does ontology mean - correct answer-the study of being
for aristotle, what term denotes the "telos" of humankind - correct answer-eudaimonia (flourishing
human)
greek emancipation from which empire opened the door for the Sophists to become prominent
teachers in Athens - correct answer-Persian
Which of the following terms denotes the civic assembly of Athenian freedom - correct answer-Ecclesia
(gathering)
which philosophy said that the soul is made up of very fine phsyical material/is a shadow or expression
of the universal Logos - correct answer-stoicism
which of the following was NOT a primary intellectual interest of the Sophists: the art of rhetoric, the
nature of being (ontology), the working of politics, the pursuit of power - correct answer-the nature of
being
what is the socratic method? - correct answer-Listen (flatter), question (subtly undermine), speculate
, in Aristotle's philosophy, animals and other non-rational beings that possessed locomotion had which
kinds of souls - correct answer-sensitive
socrates based his understanding of the human soul on the rule of _____________ - correct answer-
opposites
For Plato, ___________ was the most important aspect of philosophy - correct answer-metaphysics
who was the most prominent of the sophists and said "about the gods, I cannot be sure whether they
exist or not..." - correct answer-protagoras
in the Allegory of the Cave, what represents the Good - correct answer-the sun
what are the three important philosophical schools in the early Hellenistic Era according to the Kenney
text? - correct answer-stoicism, epicureanism, skepticism
what branch of philosophy deals with how we know things - correct answer-epistemology
what are the 3 sections of Plato's tripartite soul - correct answer-the reasonable, the appetitive, the
spirited (RAS)
Of the following disciplines, which did NOT originate with Aristotle: logic, metaphysics, botany, physics -
correct answer-metaphysics
for Aristotle, where was the Form of a thing located - correct answer-in the object itself
the "Golden Mean" refers to a concept in which branch of Aristotelian philosophy - correct answer-
Ethics
In the philosophy of Epicurus, what happens to your soul when you die - correct answer-the material
scatters and is incorporated into something else
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