PHIL 201 Exam 1 Questions With Complete Answers 2024.

PHIL 201 Exam 1 Questions With Complete Answers 2024. Who was the first philosopher? - CORRECT ANSWER Thales What was the fundamental problem which the first philosophers wrestled? - CORRECT ANSWER The one and the many What did the Greeks of Thale's day believe surrounded the earth? - CORRECT ANSWER A great river Monism literally means manyness - CORRECT ANSWER False What was it specifically that the pre-Socratic philosophers wondered about? - CORRECT ANSWER Nature of reality Which pre-Socratic philosopher thought that air was the most basic substance? - CORRECT ANSWER Anaximenes Who said fire was the most basic reality? - CORRECT ANSWER Heraclitus Which philosopher said that everything consists of number? - CORRECT ANSWER Pythagoras The historian of philosophy, Frederick Copleston, thinks that Pre-Socratics did not succeed in solving the problem of the One and the Many - CORRECT ANSWER True Who said you cannot step twice into the same river? - CORRECT ANSWER Heraclitus Who was the first systematic philosopher, addressing all aspects of experience? - CORRECT ANSWER Plato Which is the Socratic problem? - CORRECT ANSWER Historical scholarship concerning attempts at reconstructing a historical and philosophical image of Socrates based on the variable, and sometimes contradictory nature of the existing sources on his life. What does Miller call that "Man is the measure of all things?" - CORRECT ANSWER Both subjectivism and relativism