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, philosophicalquestionsaredeep 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.