PHIL101 TEST 1 UD ROGERS EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Thales' Students - ANS Anaximander and Anaximanes
Says water is underlying - ANS Thales ______underlies
Says fire is underlying - ANS Hericlitus ____ underlies
The One - ANS Parmenidies
Principle of motion Def. - ANS love brings together and hate drives apart
Principle of motion is by - ANS Empedocles
Anixamenes ____ underlying - ANS Says air is underlying
First idea of atoms by - ANS empedocles? had first idea of __
says we can't communicate - ANS Gorgias thinks we cannot __
moral relativism philosopher - ANS Thrasymachus = idea of ____
moral relativism def. - ANS No absolute or objective morality.
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,There is no truth to moral claims
"Might is right" - ANS Thrasymachus quote
Goal of life according to Socrates - ANS Happiness
Metaphysics philosopher & idea - ANS Plato's World of the Forms:
The objects of abstract knowledge--mathematical truths, the essence of the "good", the
natures of things-- really exist as perfect "blueprints" this eternal and immutable world
hylomorphyic philosopher - ANS Aristotle matter and form combination idea
unmoved mover philosopher - ANS Aristotle's "God"
fact of change - ANS • Does the carrot blink out of being and flesh blink in? NO!
• The carrot BECOMES flesh. "Substantial" Change.
• So there must be something that persists during the change. Underlying unity.
Thales brilliance
• Foundational Conclusions: Assumptions which underlie science, and which we all accept -
ANS - There must be an underlying unity.
- the way things APPEAR does not entirely reflect the way things ARE.
- We need to analyze sense data through reason.
- And note especially the methodology.
- He begins by accepting our common understanding - X becomes Y -- , but then he attempts to
analyze it critically. That's what philosophy does.
- But why would Thales pick water?
- Why water? It is everywhere and has different forms
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, sound argument - ANS argument that can be considered factual
indeterminate boundless philosopher - ANS Anaximander ____ underlying
external motion "separating off" phil - ANS Anaximander on motion for creating different
things
Law of Nature - ANS single, mechanical explanation
swirling motion phil & idea - ANS Anaximenes says ____ accounts for differences
o Individual things themselves are distinct due to changes in quality and quantity [air
expanding/contracting]
mathematician who thought world was made of mathematical entities *tangible - ANS Who
was pythagoras?
Pythagoras and form - ANS o Numbers = limits/boundaries of things which constitutes the
form
o Things are of certain nature/essence due to mathematical harmony/proportions
Everything is chaning - ANS Heraclitus
Phil who wanted to focus on change again - ANS Heraclitus wanted philosophers to focus on
__ again
Phil for "Order requires raitonal orderer" - ANS Heraclitus
people who believe god is everything and every where - ANS pantheists believe
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Thales' Students - ANS Anaximander and Anaximanes
Says water is underlying - ANS Thales ______underlies
Says fire is underlying - ANS Hericlitus ____ underlies
The One - ANS Parmenidies
Principle of motion Def. - ANS love brings together and hate drives apart
Principle of motion is by - ANS Empedocles
Anixamenes ____ underlying - ANS Says air is underlying
First idea of atoms by - ANS empedocles? had first idea of __
says we can't communicate - ANS Gorgias thinks we cannot __
moral relativism philosopher - ANS Thrasymachus = idea of ____
moral relativism def. - ANS No absolute or objective morality.
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,There is no truth to moral claims
"Might is right" - ANS Thrasymachus quote
Goal of life according to Socrates - ANS Happiness
Metaphysics philosopher & idea - ANS Plato's World of the Forms:
The objects of abstract knowledge--mathematical truths, the essence of the "good", the
natures of things-- really exist as perfect "blueprints" this eternal and immutable world
hylomorphyic philosopher - ANS Aristotle matter and form combination idea
unmoved mover philosopher - ANS Aristotle's "God"
fact of change - ANS • Does the carrot blink out of being and flesh blink in? NO!
• The carrot BECOMES flesh. "Substantial" Change.
• So there must be something that persists during the change. Underlying unity.
Thales brilliance
• Foundational Conclusions: Assumptions which underlie science, and which we all accept -
ANS - There must be an underlying unity.
- the way things APPEAR does not entirely reflect the way things ARE.
- We need to analyze sense data through reason.
- And note especially the methodology.
- He begins by accepting our common understanding - X becomes Y -- , but then he attempts to
analyze it critically. That's what philosophy does.
- But why would Thales pick water?
- Why water? It is everywhere and has different forms
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, sound argument - ANS argument that can be considered factual
indeterminate boundless philosopher - ANS Anaximander ____ underlying
external motion "separating off" phil - ANS Anaximander on motion for creating different
things
Law of Nature - ANS single, mechanical explanation
swirling motion phil & idea - ANS Anaximenes says ____ accounts for differences
o Individual things themselves are distinct due to changes in quality and quantity [air
expanding/contracting]
mathematician who thought world was made of mathematical entities *tangible - ANS Who
was pythagoras?
Pythagoras and form - ANS o Numbers = limits/boundaries of things which constitutes the
form
o Things are of certain nature/essence due to mathematical harmony/proportions
Everything is chaning - ANS Heraclitus
Phil who wanted to focus on change again - ANS Heraclitus wanted philosophers to focus on
__ again
Phil for "Order requires raitonal orderer" - ANS Heraclitus
people who believe god is everything and every where - ANS pantheists believe
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