ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHERS MILESTONE 2. LATEST 2021

ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHERS MILESTONE 2. LATEST 2021.Although I am not an atheist, I believe that man’s ingenuity is more reliable than superstitious beliefs about the gods.” The ancient philosopher most likely to make this statement was __________. ● Thales ● Xenophanes ● Protagoras ● Empedocles RATIONALE Xenophanes was a Pre-Socratic philosopher who questioned divine explanations for natural phenomena. While he was not an atheist, he maintained that it is better to rely on observation and reason than to interpret events as signs from the gods or evidence of their intervention. CONCEPT Cosmology and the First Philosophers 2 Choose the FALSE statement about Aristotle’s ethics. ● The important question is “What kind of person should I be?” ● Something is good when it excels at its function. ● Virtue is cultivated as a mean between extremes. ● Ethics is determined by the consequences of the action. RATIONALE Aristotle did not believe that the rightness or wrongness of an action is determined by the consequences of that action. Rather, he proposed in his ethics that an action is good wh...