Chapter 1

Cards (51)

  • Philosophy began at the end of the?
    6th Century
  • Philosophy happened in?
    Ancient Greece
  • Philosophy came from Greek word?
    Philein and Sophia
  • Philein means?
    Love
  • Sophia means?
    Wisdom
  • Philosophers became the talk of the town in?
    Athens
  • Philosophers became the talk of the town because of the works of?
    Hesiod and Homer
  • It is a poem by Hesiod and was published around 700 BCE
    Work and Days
  • Which work of Hesiod and Homer celebrate the agricultural spirit of the Ancient Greeks? The work implicates the idea of man's fate being indebted to the Gods.
    Work and Days
  • Which other two works of Homer show the same idea of man's fate being indebted to the Gods?
    The iliad and The Odyssey
  • What is the definition of Muthos?
    Story
  • What is the definition of Logos?
    Reason
  • Because the origin of the world might not be from some mythical explanation but from a more rational and grounded fact, this proves that making sense of the world has a clear basis and reason. True or False?
    True
  • Philosophy started in ___ in a town called ___.
    857 BCE & Miletus
  • Based on scholarships since immemorial times, which seaport town is considered to be the center of many things such as business and commerce?
    Miletus
  • Does Miletus play a minor role in Antiquity?
    Yes
  • First philosophers were said to be
    Milesians
  • Philosophy began in wonder. True or False
    True
  • The first problems related to philosophy were?
    Cosmological
  • He is the best philosophy historians today. He provides a different understanding and clarification of how this thauma can be translated.
    Oliver Feltham
  • What is thauma?
    Wonder
  • A person is placed in a state of confusion when he/she is...?
    stupefied
  • Are philosophical questions the same as any other set of questions? True or False?
    False, philosophical questions are deep and not supposed to be answered immediately.
  • Stupefaction should lead one to?
    question
  • It becomes indication that real and genuine knowledge does not end in awe.
    Questioning
  • It pushes us to question many things to see that a greater reason is being veiled by what seems to appear before us.
    Doubt
  • Not all doubts are healthy some could lead to
    skepticism
  • Wherein everything is put into inquiry without any goal of grounding and could lead to being myopic.

    Skepticism
  • A perspective that is in direct contrast to the spirit of philosophy.
    Myopic
  • A french contemporary philosopher said that, a philosophical question that touch upon matters related to three things.
    Allan Badiou
  • According to Allan Badiou, a philosophical question that touch upon matters related to three things. What are those?
    Choice, Meaning, and Life
  • Whose contribution to philosophical discourse is crucial where the scientific is philosophical and the philosophical is scientific?
    Pythagoras (570-495 BCE)
  • This term means that anyone who dares to study philosophy, desires to be a philosopher.
    Philosophus
  • Pythagoras sees a philosophus as?
    “Someone who, in all his might pursues wisdom."
  • What did Pythagoras eventually define philosophy?
    Love of Wisdom
  • Who clarifies the significant implication of the study of philosophy concerning the true life?

    Allan Badiou
  • It is the science of all things through its ultimate causes and principles acquired through the use of natural reason
    Philosophy
  • It relates to actual expectation of rigor and elements of observation and hypothesis but neither limited to physical nor natural sciences only.

    Philosophy as a Science
  • It can study anything and everything, even something that is not yet but possible to be known.

    Philosophy as a Science of All Things
  • Studying any object in philosophy is no simple matter. Philosophy is not satisfied with answers that can be given via yes or no. It is also not obsessed with providing the answer right away.

    Ultimate Causes and Principles