Philosophy Stuff

Who Said It?

100

"I think, therefore I am."

Rene Descartes 

200

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

Socrates

300

God is dead.  God remains dead.  And we have killed him!"

Nietzche)

400

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit"

Aristotle 

500

"The essence of technology is by no means anything technological." 

Martin Heidegger 

The Ism's

100

The belief that pleasure (or the absence of pain) is the highest good.

Hedonism or Epicureanism

200

The theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience (seeing, touching, hearing).

Empiricism  

300

The ethical framework that suggests we should act to create the greatest good for the greatest number.

Utilitarianism 

400

The school of thought that emphasizes individual existence, freedom, and choice - often associated with Sartre and Kierkegaard. 

Existentialism 

500

The metaphysical view that only physical matter exists and everything, including consciousness, is a result of material interactions. 

Materialism 

Mind Benders

100

The scenario asks if you should pull a lever to redirect a runaway train from five people to one person. 

The Trolly Problem 

200

Plato's story of prisoners who mistake shadows on a wall for reality. 

The Allegory of the Cave 

300

This paradox asks if a wooden vessel remains the same object if every single one of its plans is replaced over time. 

The Ship of Theseus 

400

The concept that true knowledge is knowing that you know nothing. 

Socratic Paradox 

500

The Ring of Gyges from Plato's Republic asks whether or not a person would act morally if they existed in this fictional state. 

Invisible 

Dead Philosopher's Society

100

This ancient Greek philosopher was sentenced to death by drinking hemlock. 

Socrates 

200

Before becoming a philosopher, this "Prince" author was a diplomat and politician in Renaissance Florence. 

Machiavelli 

300

Diogenes the Cynic once told this "great" leader to, "get out of my sunlight."

Alexander the Great 

400

This 18th century German philosopher was such a ruler follower and so punctual that his neighbors in Konigsberg set their watches by his daily walks. 

Kant 

500

This philosopher remained a student of Plato for 20 years before leaving to tutor Alexander the Great. 

Aristotle 

Miscellaneous Philosophy

100

This is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of beauty, art, and taste. 

Aesthetics 

200

In logic, this is a flaw in reasoning that renders an argument invalid. 

a Fallacy 

300

This branch of philosophy asks, "What is knowledge?" and "How do we know what we know?"

epistemology 

400

Sisyphus was condemned by the gods to spend eternity doing this task.

Rolling a boulder up a hill. 

500

This latin term refers to the "Blank Slate" theory that humans are born without built-in mental content. 

Tabula Rasa