Philosophy Final Exam

Taught his students through continual questioning

"Revolt is the right of the people."

According to Sartre, there is at least one being in whom existence precedes essence, that is

Wrote "Confessions"

Monads - everything is made up of energy particles

Science

Paley says that every indication of contrivance and design that exists in the watch exists in

Known for "Ubermensch" - (Superman)

The study of reality in the broadest sense, an inquiry into the nature of the universe - -

Learn from ideas you dislike - progress is messy - art has a purpose

He said, "whoever loveth me, loveth my hound."

Known as the "laughing philosopher"

Didn't write down or record any of his works

"Religion is the opium of the masses."

a squared + b squared = c squared

"Everything is Flux"

According to Paley, we must conclude that a watch had an intelligent designer if the watch

The study of covering the unknown of the world - what can't be proven with evidence

First philosopher 585 BC

"The Prince" - a guidebook for rulers

God has created the best of all possible worlds

Created Social Contract Theory - the right to abolish or change government

Questions like "what is knowledge" and "what is truth" fall into this branch of philosophy

For Socrates, an unexamined life is a tragedy because it results in grievous harm to

Wrote "Democracy in America" - toured the U.S. in 1830

"Dare to Think" - beauty equals pleasure - transcendential idealism

Wrote "The Road to Serfdom" - theory of money - Nobel for Economics

Study of how people should live with each other

"America is great because she is good."

Concerned with the nature of the beautiful and pleasing, the study of art

The "Father of Existentialism" - "La Nausea" "Nausea"

A question-and-answer dialogue in which propositions are scrutinized to uncover truth -

According to Aquinas, an infinite regress of causes is -

In music - created chords with weights - the idea of octaves

The famous statement "An unexamined life is not worth living" is attributed to

Was an Atomist

"Cogito Ergo Sum" - I think therefore I am

Wrote the book "Leviathan"

Concerned with the nature of knowledge "What can I know?"

format - major premise - minor premise - conclusion

Wrote "Atlas Shrugged", "The Fountainhead", "Anthem"

Said, "God is dead."

Paley says the analogy that Cleanthes uses to make his case is

Opened his own school - the Lyceum in 335BC

Mocked intellectuals - mocked difficult books

Wouldn't accept pay for his work (upset his wife)

Inventor of calculus

concerned with the rules of proper reasoning

His name means "blessed"

Humans can't control everything - death is final - food lovers

Animals are intelligent

Created "Probability Theory" (roulette and calculating machine)

"Politics have no relationship to morals."

"The Absurb" - meaninglessness of life - "The Myth of Sisyphus"

According to Sartre, what existentialists have in common is that they think that

Separation of powers - judicial/executive/legislative

Father of Modern Philosophy

He said, "I prefer liberty with danger, than peace with slavery."

Wrote "The Allegory of the Cave"

He recorded the ideas and theories of Socrates after his death

Opened the first university in Athens - "The Academy"

Father of Existentialism

Attempted to categorize or classify pretty much everything

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

In math - came up with the concept of square root and cube root

Storytelling

"Only the dead have seen the end of war." "The wisest mind has something yet to learn."

Advanced the "theory of forms"

"A good marriage is a blind wife with a deaf husband."

His most famous student was Alexander the Great

Four Cardinal virtues - Venial and mortal sins

"Common sense is not so common." - wrote "Candide"

"The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me."

Coined the term "Noble Savage"

Believed - All is One - everything always existed

"Interpretation of Dreams" - "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

Socrates' most famous student

Wrote the book "Utopia"

a squared + b squared = c squared

"Geist" - the stuff of existence

Was charged and executed for corrupting the youth of the city

Best writer of them all and well known for his book "The Republic"

Said, "In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice."

Equality of the sexes - "beauty in things exist in the mind that contemplates them."

The first western philosopher who wrote works that still survive today

"Lord make me chaste, but not yet."

Was against "the divine right of kings."

The four main divisions of philosophy are metaphysics, epistemology, axiology, and

Aquinas says that the first efficient cause of everything is