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The ultimate source of all knowledge & reality, foundation for all other Forms, key to understanding intelligible world.
Atomism
Potentiality
Actuality
Form of the Good
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"You cannot step into the same river twice"
Pythagoras
Thales
Parmenides
Heraclitus
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Virtue lies in avoidance of two extremes.
Pythagoras
Aristotle
Hippias
Heraclitus
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The Greek philosopher Plato founded
Peripatetic school
Academy
Stoicism
Lyceum
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Things only appear to move and change due to the deceptiveness of our senses.
Heraclitus
Thales
Parmenides
Anaximenes
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Aristotle believed that Unmoved Mover is the ultimate source of all causation and movement.
True
False
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What is NOT true about Socrates?
use of dialectic
condemned to death by Athenians
people can only be happy if they are virtuous
evil is the result of ignorance
emphasized emotions over reason
virtue is knowledge
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The "Father of Philosophy" believed that the world was made of water.
Parmenides
Anaximenes
Thales
Democritus
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"All things are full of gods"
Democritus
Thales
Lucretius
Epicurus
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Which is NOT true about Plato?
The Form of the Good
soul is immaterial
soul perishes with the body
democracy is the best form of government
Theory of Forms
soul retires to another existence after death
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"The unexamined life is not worth living."
Thales
Socrates
Democritus
Anaximenes
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A disciple of Plato, he emphasized the study of logic and rejected Plato's view that Forms had an independent existence.
Aristotle
Parmenides
Pythagoras
Heraclitus
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Behind each particular thing is the idea or form of a particular thing.
Theory of Forms
Pantheism
Epicureanism
Unmoved Mover
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He emphasized use of senses to make observations and divided fields of knowledge into categories and subcategories.
Plato
Aristotle
Heraclitus
Pythagoras
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He believed the best form of government was a polity, a mixture of democracy and oligarchy.
Aristotle
Plato
Pythagoras
Parmenides
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A form of argumentative dialogue based on asking and answering questions in order to arrive at truth.
dialectic
didactic method
Socratic method
metaphysics
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What is NOT true of Anaximander?
the world was cylindrical like a drum
humans came from fish-like creatures
earth rested on nothing
water was the first principle of life
all living things came from primeval slime
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The Milesian School sought to understand
relationship between gods and men
the nature of evil
what the world is made of
the nature of reality
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The Greek philosopher Aristotle founded
Stoicism
Lyceum
Academy
Epicureanism
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The soul is by nature immortal and it undergoes transmigration from one body to another.
Anaximenes
Epicurus
Pythagoras
Lucretius
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Which is NOT true about Aristotle?
tutor to Alexander the Great
virtue is the golden mean
Theory of Forms
potentiality and actuality
Unmoved Mover
mixed constitution
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Knowledge is the mind's grasp of that which lies behind the world.
Anaximander
Plato
Thales
Aristotle
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The word "philosophy" comes from the Ancient Greek words which mean
wise man
love of wisdom
divine word
love of nature
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He believed that the goal of life was to discover wisdom by oneself from within.
Socrates
Gorgias
Thrasymachus
Hippias
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The physical world is made up of indivisible, unchanging entities called "atoms".
Anaximanes
Heraclitus
Democritus
Anaximander
