PHIL 101 Exam 1 (JMU Yates)
Cosmology ✔️✔️The study of the origins of things
Substance ✔️✔️The 'stuff' of the universe, the basic makeup of something, its internal order
Ontology ✔️✔️The study of being
Monists ✔️✔️Seeking the 'oneness' of reality
What did Thales think was the source of all things? ✔️✔️Water
What did Anaximander think was the source of all things? ✔️✔️'Primordial stuff' (apeiron)
What did Anaximenes think was the source of all things? ✔️✔️Air
What did Democritus think was the source of all things? ✔️✔️Atoms
What did Pythagoras think was the source of all things? ✔️✔️Mathematical harmony
What did Heraclitus think was the source of all things? ✔️✔️Fire
, Who was the first to argue his points? ✔️✔️Paramenides
What does reality consist of? ✔️✔️Change
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.
"Man is the measure of all things" ✔️✔️Protagoras
Eastern philosophy was less focused on ? and more focused on ? ✔️✔️material reality, flow
The Upanishads ✔️✔️Texts with sacred doctrines of early ancient religions
Brahmin ✔️✔️The ultimate reality of the universe/self
What does Upanishad teaching focus on? ✔️✔️The cosmic spiritual self within the specific
self
Zarathustra ✔️✔️Persian who announced the god Ahura Mazda - the creator full of goodness
What are Mazda's twin spirits? ✔️✔️One seeks good, one seeks evil
Cosmology ✔️✔️The study of the origins of things
Substance ✔️✔️The 'stuff' of the universe, the basic makeup of something, its internal order
Ontology ✔️✔️The study of being
Monists ✔️✔️Seeking the 'oneness' of reality
What did Thales think was the source of all things? ✔️✔️Water
What did Anaximander think was the source of all things? ✔️✔️'Primordial stuff' (apeiron)
What did Anaximenes think was the source of all things? ✔️✔️Air
What did Democritus think was the source of all things? ✔️✔️Atoms
What did Pythagoras think was the source of all things? ✔️✔️Mathematical harmony
What did Heraclitus think was the source of all things? ✔️✔️Fire
, Who was the first to argue his points? ✔️✔️Paramenides
What does reality consist of? ✔️✔️Change
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.
"Man is the measure of all things" ✔️✔️Protagoras
Eastern philosophy was less focused on ? and more focused on ? ✔️✔️material reality, flow
The Upanishads ✔️✔️Texts with sacred doctrines of early ancient religions
Brahmin ✔️✔️The ultimate reality of the universe/self
What does Upanishad teaching focus on? ✔️✔️The cosmic spiritual self within the specific
self
Zarathustra ✔️✔️Persian who announced the god Ahura Mazda - the creator full of goodness
What are Mazda's twin spirits? ✔️✔️One seeks good, one seeks evil
