Lewis & Worldviews
What are C.S. Lewis' two worldviews?
Naturalism & Supernaturalism
What are the two epic poems attributed to Homer?
Iliad and Odyssey
Who are the three Milesian Cosmologists?
Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes
This philosopher rejected the existence of the gods
Critias
This worldview does NOT accept the existence of miracles
Naturalism
A mythological worldview interprets the world through imagination and emotion instead of _____
reason
The "fundamental stuff" of the world according to Thales
Water
This philosopher believed that there was one perfect, supreme, omnipotent God
Xenophanes
a set of related assumptions (axioms) and beliefs through which individuals interpret the world around them
worldview
This poem by Hesiod is translated as "Origin of the Gods"
Theogony
The "fundamental stuff" of the world according to Anaximenes
air
Another name for Leucippus and Democritus
the Atomists
What is the branch of philosophy concerned with "how we know what we know"?
Epistemology
Name two of the four key features of a mythological worldview
Attempt to explain “worldview questions” - the origin of the universe, humans, nature, society, right and wrong, etc.
Feature a wide cast of gods, goddesses, monsters, and other mythical creatures;
Typically appeal more to emotions, imagination, etc. than to reason;
Expressed via language, art, poetry, rituals, ceremonies, social organization, etc.
Name two of the four key features of the Ionian School
Sought to use reason, rather than emotions or imagination, to understand the world around them;
Sought explanations within natural processes rather than in the gods;
Wanted to understand the underlying principles of the universe;
Believed that theories should be grounded in evidence and defended logically.
The collection of oligarchs who ruled Athens after the Peloponnesian War, of which Critias was a member
The Thirty Tyrants
What are the five branches of philosophy?
Hesiod's emphasis on the ______ is an aspect of his Theogony that breaks from older mythological worldviews
law
Anaximander's apeiron produces these two opposite powers, from which comes the world:
heat and cold
Rejected change and motion; believed that all that was was one whole, unchanging substance
the Eleatics