Final Jeopardy!

Unit 1

100

The martyr of philosophy.

Socrates

200

The love of wisdom

philosophy

300

Lead the Academy of Athens

Plato

400

According to Socrates, wisdom is:

knowing what you do not know

500

Shadows (physical) and the surface (real--forms)

Allegory of the Cave

Unit 2

100

The student of Plato

Aristotle

200

Study of reality/being

metaphysics

300

Matter and form

hylomorphism

400

material, efficient, formal, final

four causes

500

What is truly real exists as a form/idea, apart from physical reality

idealism

Unit 3

100

Name this argument for God's existence: That which is moved is moved by another. There cannot be an infinite regression of movers. Therefore, there must be an unmoved mover.

Argument from motion

200

Major Premise: There is no case known in which a thing is the efficient cause of itself.
Minor Premise: It is not possible to go on to infinity in efficient causes.
Conclusion: Therefore, there must be a first efficient cause—and this is God.

Argument from Efficient Cause (The Second Way)

300

God is that than which nothing greater can be thought.

Ontological Argument

400

"Whatever lacks knowledge cannot move towards an end, unless it be directed by some being endowed with knowledge and intelligence... and this being we call God."

Argument from Teleology (Fifth Way)

500

"If everything can not-be, then at one time there was nothing in existence. But if this were true, then there would be nothing in existence now... Therefore, we cannot but admit the existence of some being having of itself its own necessity... and this all men speak of as God."

Argument from Necessity (Third Way)

Unit 4

100

The study of knowledge

epistemology

200

Name that epistemology: The idea that our senses can be trusted to understand the world around us.

moderate realism/soft empiricism

300

Name that epistemology: Both Plato and Descartes believed that we should be skeptical of the physical world around us, only ideas or forms found in the mind are truly real.

rationalism

400

This philosopher demanded such a high degree of certainty of empirical observation that he became skeptical if you could know any truth at all.

David Hume

500

Cogito ergo sum

I think therefore I am

Unit 5

100

Plato argued that the soul is:

tripartite

200

Aside from Aristotle, which famous philosopher argued that the soul is the form of the body?

Thomas Aquinas

300

There is no such thing as free will

determinism

400

Moral decisions should be made according to what gives pleasure and benefits the most people

utilitarianism

500

The study of the human person

Anthropology