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Lewis & Worldviews
Hesiod & Homer, MWV
Milesian Cosmologists
Later Pre-Socratics
100

What are C.S. Lewis' two worldviews?

Naturalism & Supernaturalism

100

What are the two epic poems attributed to Homer?

Iliad and Odyssey

100

Who are the three Milesian Cosmologists?

Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes

100

This philosopher rejected the existence of the gods

Critias

200

This worldview does NOT accept the existence of miracles

Naturalism

200

A mythological worldview interprets the world through imagination and emotion instead of _____

reason

200

The "fundamental stuff" of the world according to Thales

Water

200

This philosopher believed that there was one perfect, supreme, omnipotent God

Xenophanes

300

a set of related assumptions (axioms) and beliefs through which individuals interpret the world around them

worldview

300

This poem by Hesiod is translated as "Origin of the Gods"

Theogony

300

The "fundamental stuff" of the world according to Anaximenes

air

300

Another name for Leucippus and Democritus

the Atomists

400

What is the branch of philosophy concerned with "how we know what we know"?

Epistemology

400

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.

400

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.

400

The collection of oligarchs who ruled Athens after the Peloponnesian War, of which Critias was a member 

The Thirty Tyrants

500

What are the five branches of philosophy?

Epistemology, Metaphysics, Ethics, Logic, Aesthetics
500

Hesiod's emphasis on the ______ is an aspect of his Theogony that breaks from older mythological worldviews

law

500

Anaximander's apeiron produces these two opposite powers, from which comes the world:

heat and cold

500

Rejected change and motion; believed that all that was was one whole, unchanging substance

the Eleatics