Deck 2: Philosophy and Philosophers in Ancient Times

Question 1

The Republic is the famous work of ---------

A)socrates
B)thales
C)plato
D)sartre

Answer 1

plato

Question 2

Theory of truth lies in the theory of Ideas is the philosophy of

A)socrates
B)pythagoras
C)aristotle
D)plato

Answer 2

plato

Question 3

Who distinguished world of ideas and physical world?

A)plato
B)socrates
C)aristotle
D)kant

Answer 3

plato

Question 4

Aristotle mentioned theory of truth in his work------

A)analytic
B)ethics
C)epistemology
D)metaphysics

Question 5

For Plato, ---- are eternal ideas beyond the physical world.

A)forms
B)dialectics
C)phenomenon
D)episteme

Question 6

Who wrote Symposium?

A)thales
B)aristotle
C)plato
D)anaxagoras

Question 7

Aristotle was a student of ---

A)plato
B)socrates
C)protagoras
D)anaximander

Question 8

Who founded a school in Athens called Lyceum.

A)aristotle
B)plato
C)socrates
D)sophists

Question 9

"There is no form without matter and no matter without form."

A)leucippus
B)plato
C)socrates
D)aristotle

Question 10

Matter is the substance out of which everything in the world is made is the statement of -----

A)anaxagoras
B)plato
C)aristotle
D)socrates

Question 11

Who discovered four causes that govern change in everything?

A)plato
B)aristotle
C)st.augustine
D)st.anselm

Question 12

Who believed that God created the world out of nothing and before God created the world nothing existed?

A)anaximander
B)plato
C)socrates
D)st. augustine

Question 13

The City of God is the work of ----

A)st. augustine
B)plato
C)aristotle
D)pythagoras

Question 14

Who said that through faith and reason together we could reach "natural theological truth."

A)socrates
B)st.thomas aquinas
C)moralist
D)atomist

Question 15

Summa Theologica is the work of ---------

A)plato
B)st. anselm
C)st. thomas aquinas
D)thale

Question 16

------- predicted an eclipse of the sun

A)thales
B)pythagoras
C)socrates
D)plato

Question 17

Who was the first Milesian materialist philosopher?

A)heraclitus
B)anaximander
C)pythagoras
D)thales

Question 18

The major source of Thales's philosophy is by

A)plato
B)pythagoras
C)socrates
D)aristotle

Question 19

Who said that living things are always moist?

A)plato
B)socrates
C)tales
D)anaximander

Question 20

Anaximander belongs to --------

A)stagira
B)miletus
C)samos
D)all are false

Question 21

The Milesian philosophers were known as ………………………..

A)natural philosophers
B)rationalists
C)empiricists
D)atomists

Question 22

Anaximander, a philosopher came after ------

A)anaximenes
B)plato
C)socrates
D)thales

Question 23

apeiron in Anaximander means -----

A)formal logic
B)infinite
C)eidos
D)hyle

Question 24

Anaximander's cosmogony gives rise to a

A)heliocentric
B)teleological
C)geocentric
D)god

Question 25

Who said that in the beginning man was similar to a different animal, namely, a fish.

A)anaximander
B)leucippus
C)pythagoras
D)thales