Plato
Plato was the pupil of who?
Socrates
Who was Aristotle's teacher?
Plato
If time did not exist what would happen to everything?
Everything would not exist
What does Anslem believe God to be?
Something than which nothing greater can be conceived
What is the philosophical method of asking a series of probing questions to uncover assumptions?
The Socratic Method
What does Plato call the unchanging, perfect models that lie behind the changing objects of the sensory world?
The forms (ideas)
What are the two key Aristotelian principles that explain whether something is in a state of becoming or already fully realized?
Potency and Actuality
Kant’s view of nature denies the existence of what within the sensible world?
Natural forms-essences
What type of argument is Anselm’s proof for God’s existence considered?
The Ontological Argument
Where did Professor Sorem go to college?
Thomas Aquinas College
What was the sign atop Plato's school?
Let no one ignorant to geometry enter here
This term describes Aristotle’s idea of the ultimate purpose or “end” toward which all things naturally aim
Telos
What is the difference between the A-theory and the B-theory?
A theory time really passes and B theory time does not objectively pass
This view holds that religious beliefs can be rationally justified through experience, reason, or evidence
Evidentialism
What do philosophers call the view that reality is fundamentally mental or made of ideas?
Idealism
Plato’s dialogue Symposium focuses on speeches about this powerful force, often described as leading the soul toward the divine.
Love (or Eros)
Is Aristotle known for studying to understand the world through reason and observation or myths and stories?
Reason and Observation
What philosopher said that space and time “belong only to the form of intuition”?
Immanuel Kant
What are St Thomas Aquinas’s 5 arguments for the Existence of God?
-Motion & Change
-Efficient Causality
-Possibility & Necessity
-Gradation
-Governance of the World
What do we call the moment when you walk into a room and immediately forget why?
The Doorway Paradox
According to Plato, this highest Form represents the ultimate source of truth and reality, akin to the sun in the Allegory of the Cave
Form of the Good
What did Aristotle call the doctrine that substances are composed of form and matter?
Hylomorphism
According to this view, only the present moment truly exists, the past is gone and the future has yet to be?
Presentism
What does Pascal’s Wager argue you should do regarding belief in God?
Believe in God because it has the greatest expected benefit and lowest risk.
This philosopher said, “I think, therefore I am,” while doubting basically everything else.
Descartes