Lone Star College System

PHIL 1301

Philosophy Quiz 1

1)The Green world and culture looked and philosophizing as leisure and entertainment of the upper class people, or as the activity of those in the highest strata of society because,

2. The meaning of “Rational Animal” for Aristotle when he refers to human beings is:

3. Philosophy in etymological definition means:

4. Which one does not play an important factor in promoting human curiosity or philosophizing in Greek context?

5. The wisdom for the “Pre-Socratics” is:

6. Wisdom for the “Sophists” is:

7. Whose idea that relates “wisdom as a critical examination of our pretentions to knowledge and the constant search for that final truth that always seems to be just beyond our grasp.”

8. To understand “rationality” today in terms of social construction or inter subjective understanding, thus defining truth (to be rational) as both historical and cultural.

9. To avoid “endless disagreements,” philosophers appeal to objective and universal standard of rationality called:

10. The following describe the pre-philosophical era, except:

1. Appeal to natural way through reason as source of knowledge of reality and events.
2. The period of Greek Mythology to explain the meaning of existence.
3. Human existence is best explained in a supernatural way.
4. The period of Greek religiosity that is polytheistic in nature.

11. Which of the statement below that best describes the value of philosophy according to Bertrand Russell?

12. The “Aporia” that one encounters in philosophizing means:

13. Socrates was called as “midwife” of truth because:

14. Socrates as “gadfly” sent by god to the state means:

15. Which of the following question below is NOT philosophical in nature? What is meant to be free?

What is there evil in the world?

What is the meaning of death?

16. Wisdom for “Socrates” is knowledge of ignorance and limitations of knowledge. He popularized, “know-thyself” theory-hence, which of the following sums up his goal:

17. The title philosopher:

18. Who defined “rationality” as “to think clearly”?

19. It is the process of understanding of reality, that which philosophers in the past have tried to understand, their concerns become our concerns and their questions become our questions, their answers become our

20. What is the definition of philosophy according to the author, Gary Kessler?

21. Which branch of philosophy has to do with the study of value and the distinction between value and fact?

22. “No philosopher is right”; “who is right among the philosophers after all?”; “all philosophers are partial in their ideas,” are examples of attitude in philosophizing called:

23. “All philosophers are saying the same thing”; “Only Plato is an acceptable philosophy and nothing else, all thought are just interpretations of Plato.” –are examples of attitude in philosophizing called:

24. The textbook emphasizes the right/correct understanding of what philosophy is. Which of the following is a correct understanding of Philosophy according to Kessler?

25. Below is the list of statements, which speaks of what Aristotle meant of Law of Non-Contradiction to resolve disagreements, which one does not speak of law of non-contradiction?