PHIL 101 Exam 1 (JMU Yates)
Who was Plato's top student - ✔️✔️Aristotle
Who was the first to argue his points? - ✔️✔️Paramenides
Who wrote 'Phaedo' and 'Republic' - ✔️✔️Plato
Who wrote 'The Apology' and 'Crito" - ✔️✔️Plato
Why do we learn? - ✔️✔️We have forgotten or we are not certain
Zarathustra - ✔️✔️Persian who announced the god Ahura Mazda - the creator full of
goodness
Zeno's Paradox - ✔️✔️a philosophical problem that shows change is impossible since
any move from point A to point B requires an infinite number of half steps
Metaphysics - ✔️✔️The study of existence as it plays out in natural things without
transcendance
Monists - ✔️✔️Seeking the 'oneness' of reality
Mystery of faith - ✔️✔️God is less certain to Paneloux
Mystery of reason - ✔️✔️Reason can't tell Rieux if Paneloux has the plague
Nuance - ✔️✔️Run comparisons, draw distinctions between things, draw meaning from
things by comparing it to another
Ontology - ✔️✔️The study of being
Opinion - ✔️✔️Sees the partial
Paneloux's first sermon thesis - ✔️✔️The plague came because you were disobedient
to god, you deserve this
Being visionary - ✔️✔️Thinking outside of the box, seeing the big picture/well-rounded
view
Brahmin - ✔️✔️The ultimate reality of the universe/self
Confucianism - ✔️✔️Focuses on strengthening community through ceremonial
practices of etiquette, we need to be shaped for goodness
, Cosmology - ✔️✔️The study of the origins of things
Dao - ✔️✔️The "way" (path) pf exemplary life
Definitions - ✔️✔️Tries to define big issues
Eastern philosophy was less focused on ? and more focused on ? - ✔️✔️material
reality, flow
Efficient cause - ✔️✔️What makes things/causes change
Empiricism - ✔️✔️Sensory, inductive (insufficient) Aristotle
Essence - ✔️✔️The think you can't take away without destroying something
Ethics - ✔️✔️Rules of right and wrong, "practical" philosophy
Final cause - ✔️✔️Most important for understanding essence
Focusing on the practical (moral) - ✔️✔️Trying to be ethical
'Phaedo' - ✔️✔️In death, living up to beliefs
'Republic' - ✔️✔️Nuancing knowledge vs opinion
"I've always had the plague" - ✔️✔️Tarrou
"life as plague-stricken" - ✔️✔️Tarrou
"Man is the measure of all things" - ✔️✔️Protagoras
"Reason, like life, is limited" - ✔️✔️Luc Ferry
"The time has come for taking thought" - ✔️✔️?????
"To live the examined life" - ✔️✔️Socrates
2+2=4 - ✔️✔️Something that seems easy, but is actually difficult, identifying reality and
responding
4 steps on the Divided Line - ✔️✔️1. We see images and think they represent truth
2. We see actual things and form a stronger belief about them as True
Who was Plato's top student - ✔️✔️Aristotle
Who was the first to argue his points? - ✔️✔️Paramenides
Who wrote 'Phaedo' and 'Republic' - ✔️✔️Plato
Who wrote 'The Apology' and 'Crito" - ✔️✔️Plato
Why do we learn? - ✔️✔️We have forgotten or we are not certain
Zarathustra - ✔️✔️Persian who announced the god Ahura Mazda - the creator full of
goodness
Zeno's Paradox - ✔️✔️a philosophical problem that shows change is impossible since
any move from point A to point B requires an infinite number of half steps
Metaphysics - ✔️✔️The study of existence as it plays out in natural things without
transcendance
Monists - ✔️✔️Seeking the 'oneness' of reality
Mystery of faith - ✔️✔️God is less certain to Paneloux
Mystery of reason - ✔️✔️Reason can't tell Rieux if Paneloux has the plague
Nuance - ✔️✔️Run comparisons, draw distinctions between things, draw meaning from
things by comparing it to another
Ontology - ✔️✔️The study of being
Opinion - ✔️✔️Sees the partial
Paneloux's first sermon thesis - ✔️✔️The plague came because you were disobedient
to god, you deserve this
Being visionary - ✔️✔️Thinking outside of the box, seeing the big picture/well-rounded
view
Brahmin - ✔️✔️The ultimate reality of the universe/self
Confucianism - ✔️✔️Focuses on strengthening community through ceremonial
practices of etiquette, we need to be shaped for goodness
, Cosmology - ✔️✔️The study of the origins of things
Dao - ✔️✔️The "way" (path) pf exemplary life
Definitions - ✔️✔️Tries to define big issues
Eastern philosophy was less focused on ? and more focused on ? - ✔️✔️material
reality, flow
Efficient cause - ✔️✔️What makes things/causes change
Empiricism - ✔️✔️Sensory, inductive (insufficient) Aristotle
Essence - ✔️✔️The think you can't take away without destroying something
Ethics - ✔️✔️Rules of right and wrong, "practical" philosophy
Final cause - ✔️✔️Most important for understanding essence
Focusing on the practical (moral) - ✔️✔️Trying to be ethical
'Phaedo' - ✔️✔️In death, living up to beliefs
'Republic' - ✔️✔️Nuancing knowledge vs opinion
"I've always had the plague" - ✔️✔️Tarrou
"life as plague-stricken" - ✔️✔️Tarrou
"Man is the measure of all things" - ✔️✔️Protagoras
"Reason, like life, is limited" - ✔️✔️Luc Ferry
"The time has come for taking thought" - ✔️✔️?????
"To live the examined life" - ✔️✔️Socrates
2+2=4 - ✔️✔️Something that seems easy, but is actually difficult, identifying reality and
responding
4 steps on the Divided Line - ✔️✔️1. We see images and think they represent truth
2. We see actual things and form a stronger belief about them as True
