Q1
What does Philosophy mean?
What does Philosophoi mean?
Philosophy - Love of Wisdom
Philosophoi - Lovers of Wisdom
What is Metaphysics and its sub-branches?
The study of reality, sub-branches are monism and dualism.
According to Plato what is a person?
A mortal body and an immortal soul
What kind of imperative is Kant concerned about?
Was he a consequentialist or non consequentialist?
Categorical Imperative
Non consequentialist
According to Bentham, All punishment is...
What is the birthplace of Greek Philosophy and why?
The Seaport of Miletus, because it was a port with imports and exports that made them wealthy and since they were wealthy they had lots of leisure time for philosophy.
What is Epistemology and its sub-branches?
The study of knowledge process, Empiricism, Skepticism, Rationalism
According to Plato what are the 3 parts of the soul?
Rational, Spiritual, Irrational
What is Dogmatic?
To give a statement so strongly as if it were a fact but no facts are given to back up the statement
What court case overturned Roe v Wade?
Dobbs v. Jackson
What is an Argument?
a group of…
An argument is a group of statements of which one (the conclusion) is claimed to follow from the others (the premises).
What is ethics, and its sub branches?
The study of morality, absolutism and relativism
According to Plato, we clearly see our irrational desires in our?
Dreams
According to Aristotle, the faculties such as strategy, economics, and rhetoric are all subordinate to....
politics
what is utilitarianism?
The greatest amount of happiness for the greatest amount of people with the least amount of pain
What is the Law of the Excluded Middle?
Every statement must be either true or false; no statement can be both true and false at the same time.
What is Skepticism?
the view that nothing is certain; that nothing can be known through the senses or the mind because both deceive us.
A. According to Plato, when we confuse ____?A1___ we become unhappy and experience a general disorder of the ____?A2______
B. This is why Plato argued, as Socrates did, that moral evil is the result of?
1)Appearance with reality
2) Human Soul
3) Ignorance
What was Kant's first great work in philosophy?
Critique of Pure Reason
Hedonism is ?
Mill was more concerned with the…
Bentham was more concerned with the…
The view that pleasure is the goal of life
Mill - Qualitative aspect of pleasure
Bentham- Quantitative aspect of pleasure
what is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
That statements about reality are true or false depending upon if they match up with or correspond to reality.
According to your required reading, who is a dualist because they argued all reality was divided between the realm of Perfect, Eternal Truths (which he called Forms-much more about these later) and the physical universe?
What School did this Person Found?
Plato
The Academy
According to your required reading what is Socrates' most famous statement?
“an unexamined life is not worth living”
Who did Professor Watts relate this clip to and How did Professor Watts relate the clip (correlating to the picture provided) to the philosopher?
(This clip is from the movie Anger Management and the actors in this picture are Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler)
The clip refers to the the 3 parts of the soul, being Rational, spiritual, and irrational. The way expressed in the clip, is the aspect that, Jack Nicholson is the rational part helping Adam Sandler which he is represented at the Spiritual part, while the angered drivers around yelling at them for being stopped act as the irrational part, in the end the spiritual part works with the rational part because Jack helps Adam calm down with a song and they work together to over rule the irrational (angry drivers).
A. Who is accredited for creating the Trolley thought experiment?
B. What is the Trolley thought experiment?
A.) Philipia Foot
B.) A cost-benefit decision and example that illustrates the different ways humans may think. An indivisual is put in a sceinario where they have a lever that will either depict if a train continues to go one way with 5 people or to change the direction one way with 1 person. An example of Utilitarianism, a question that showcases the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest amount of people with the least amount of pain.