Basics
The meaning of the word philosophy.
What is the love of wisdom?
The philosopher of water.
Who is Thales?
The meaning of metaphysics.
What is the study of reality?
This Greek philosopher can be said to have very modern ideas.
Who is Democritus?
The name of Plato's story to explain his philosophy.
What is the Allegory of the Cave?
The name for the study of right and wrong.
What is Ethics?
The belief that all of reality can be reduced to one thing.
What is Monism?
The meaning of epistemology.
What is the study of knowledge?
The philosopher of change.
Who is Heraclitus?
This is what we are for Plato.
What are prisoners?
This is the branch of philosophy that deals with beauty.
What is aesthetics?
This Greek philosopher started a religion based on math.
Who is Pythagoras?
Two things that philosophy is NOT.
What are religion and science?
The belief that they underlying reality of the world is different from how it appears.
What is the Appearance/Reality Disctinction?
These people would make the ideal kings for Plato.
Who are philosophers?
Is the tool by which philosophers philosophize.
What is logic?
Anaximenes was famous for this.
What is proportion?
These are the two sub-fields of value-theory.
What are ethics and aesthetics?
The philosopher of being.
Who is Parmenides?
In Plato's understanding of the soul, workers correspond to this.
These are the 4 R's of philosophy.
What are responsiveness, reflection, reason and re-
evaluation?
The first Greek philosophers are called the Ionian philosophers for this reason.
Because they lived on the Ionian Coast?
"Why do I want to eat chocolate cake for dinner?" is this type of question.
What is a second order question?
The Early Divide is between these things.
What is Being vs. Becoming and Deductive vs. Inductive
Logic?
These are Plato's 4 virtues.
What are Wisdom, Temperance, Courage and Justice?