Pre-Socratics
He said, "you can't step in the same river twice, not even once." and thought everything was made of fire.
Who is Heraclitus?
Theory that is based on the question what makes life go well?
What is Value theory?
He said no time, without motion, although there may be motion without time.
Who is Aristotle?
He is the main character of Plato's Dialogues.
Who is Socrates?
The love of wisdom.
What is Philosophy?
He was the philosopher with the Arche Being.
Who is Parmenides?
The good life is devoted to pleasure.
What is hedonism?
Newton made a bucket agrument to argue what?
What is absolute space?
Considered the first "biologist" and the founder & creator of "logic".
Who is Aristotle?
What is the etymology of the word science (i.e., what is the Latin word for science)?
What is scientia?
Pupil and successor of Thales.
Who is Anaximander of Miletus?
It is a good moral habit.
What is a virtue?
Physical object that can get humans (as close as possible) to being sense-deprived (No sense of motion or time).
What is a sense deprivation tank?
He created the 5 ways for God's existence.
Who is Thomas Aquinas?
Philosophy is the science of…
What is all things humanly knowable?
He said "Everything is full of gods"
Thales
A common consequence based moral theory, that seeks to maximize utility.
What is Utilitarianism?
He made the Copernican Revolution.
Who is Kant?
In Plato’s analogy of the Cave found in the Republic, what represents the form of the good.
What does the Greek word Archê mean?
What is principle?
Plato's genius response to the pre-socratic problem of identity and change.
What are the Forms?
The study of knowledge, meant to answer the question "How do we know things?"
Epistemology
He believes space and time are absolute. They are conceived to be something like a container in which things and events exist and occur.
Who is Newton?
What are the 5 BIG questions?
What are...
1.) what is everything made of?
2.)What underlies everything?
3.)What are the fundamental/ultimate building blocks of reality?
4.) What is the fundamental/ ultimate principle of reality?
5.) What is change and motion?
What does the Greek word mythos (where we get the word ‘mythology’ from) mean?
What is story?