Plato
This allegory is often used to describe the transition from ignorance to enlightenment.
What is Plato's Cave?
This theory from Aristotle is used to explain how to truly understand something.
What is “The Four Causes"?
This religious philosopher defined God as “something than which nothing greater can be conceived”.
Who is St. Anselm of Canterbury?
This is the name for our experience of time moving from past -> present -> future
What is the flow of time?
This philosopher famously declared, “I think, therefore I am”.
Who is René Descartes?
Plato’s Apology was written to recount the trial of this philosopher.
Who is Socrates?
These are the three different Aristotelian classifications of souls.
What are the Vegetative, Animal, and Rational or Human Soul?
Pascal’s Wager argues that believing in God is this kind of choice—one that is rational even without proof.
What is a pragmatic choice?
T/F Philosophers and Scientists agree on the flow of time.
F, They disagree
This philosopher said, “Everything is always changing”.
Who is Heraclitus?
This Theory is used to describe abstract properties or qualities as being the object of true knowledge.
What is Theory of Forms?
According to Aristotle, every action and choice aims at this ultimate goal in life.
What is happiness?
This philosopher’s “Five Ways” attempt to prove God’s existence through observation of motion, causation, and purpose in the natural world.
Who is Thomas Aquinas?
This is the term for events that happen at the same time.
What is simultaneity?
This philosopher said that water is the beginning of everything.
Who is Thales?
This Platonic dialogue contains the most famous explanation of the Theory of Forms along with the Allegory of the Cave.
What is The Republic?
This type of cause explains the purpose or function of a thing in Aristotle’s four causes.
What is the Final Cause?
This type of argument for God begins with a pure idea or definition in the mind and reasons a priori to God’s existence without using sense experience.
What is an Ontological Argument?
These 2 Philosophers are credited to have invented Calculus.
Who are Newton and Leibniz?
This philosopher said that air is the beginning of everything.
Who is Anaximenes?
After leaning of ________, one can gain knowledge of the Master of Truth and Reason, who is the universal cause of all that is right and beautiful
What is the Form of the Good?
This word, derived from Greek, is used to describe the composition of the substance of real things out of form and matter.
What is Hylomorphism?
This word means end/purpose in Greek and is used in the name of an argument for the existence of God.
What is Telos?
This concept suggests that the future is already determined by the past and present, raising questions about free will.
What is determinism?
This Greek word is used to describe matter.
What is Hyle?