Lesson 2

Question 1

Philosophy came from 2 ancient Greek words ________ which means _______ , and ________ which means _______.

Answer 1

philia - love
sophia - wisdom

Question 2

Who is the philosopher who first use the word “Philosophy”?

Answer 2

Pythagora of Samos

Question 3

2 philosophical statements of Socrates

Answer 3

“Know thyself”

“An unexamined life is not worth living”

Question 4

Common denominator of philosophers in understanding life is?

Answer 4

Love and Wisdom

Question 5

Term for the “love for wisdom”

Answer 5

Reason

Question 6

2 important aspects of personhood according to Socrates.

Answer 6

Body and Soul

Question 7

Aspect of personhood that is imperfect and impermanent.

Answer 7

Body

Question 8

Aspect of personhood that is perfect and permanent.

Answer 8

Soul

Question 9

Socrates’ dichotomous realm

Answer 9

1. The Physical Realm
2. The Ideal Realm

Question 10

Realm that is changeable, transient, and imperfect.

Answer 10

The Physical Realm

Question 11

Realm that is unchanging, eternal , and immortal.

Answer 11

The Ideal Realm

Question 12

The body belongs to which realm?

Answer 12

The Physical Realm

Question 13

The soul belongs to which realm?

Answer 13

The Ideal Realm

Question 14

Student of Socrates

Believed that the philosophy of the self can be explained as a process of self-knowledge and purification of the soul.

He believed that in the existence of the mind and soul.

Answer 14

Plato

Question 15

3 parts of HUMAN SOUL according to Plato

Answer 15

1. Rational soul
2. Spirited soul
3. Appetitive soul

Question 16

Reason and intellect

Part of the human soul that is the divine essence that enables us to think deeply, make wise choices, and achieve a true understanding of eternal truths.

Answer 16

Rational soul

Question 17

Emotion and passion

Part of the human soul that includes basic emotions such as love, anger ambition, empathy, and aggressiveness.

Answer 17

Spirited soul

Question 18

Basic needs

Part of the human soul that includes our basic biological needs such as hunger, thirst, and sexual desire.

Answer 18

Appetitive soul

Question 19

When conflict between the parts of the human soul occurs, Plato believes that it is the responsibility of our _______ to sort things out and exert control, restoring a harmonious relationship among the three elements
of ourselves.

Answer 19

Reason

Question 20

A student of Plato

Believes that the body and soul are not two separate elements but are one thing.

Believes that the soul is simply the form of the body and is not capable of existing without the body

Answer 20

Aristotle

Question 21

Aristotle’s 3 kinds of soul

Answer 21

1. Vegetative soul
2. Sentient soul
3. Rational soul

Question 22

Kind of soul that includes the physical body that can grow

Answer 22

Vegetative soul

Question 23

Kind if soul that includes the sensual desires, feelings, and emotions.

Answer 23

Sentient soul

Question 24

Kind of soul that makes a man human. It includes the intellect that makes man know and understand things

Answer 24

Rational soul

Question 25

"I am doubting, therefore I am" Philosopher who integratd the ideas of Plato and Christianity His view of the human person reflects the entire spirit of the medieval world Believed humankind is created in the image and likeness of God.

Answer 25

St. Augustine

Question 26

Ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician and astronomer

Answer 26

Hypatia of Alexandria

Question 27

"I think therefore, I am"

Answer 27

Rene Descartes

Question 28

Meaning of Cogito ergo sum

Answer 28

I think therefore, I am

Question 29

RENE DESCARTES’ two distinct entities

Answer 29

1. Cogito 2. Extenza

Question 30

Distinct entity which is the thing that thinks the mind

Answer 30

Cogito

Question 31

Distinct entity which is the extension the body.

Answer 31

Extanza

Question 32

Believes that the human mind at birth is tabula rasa, his theory of knowledge He felt that the self is constructed primarily from sense experience

Answer 32

John Locke

Question 33

Tabula rasa means?

Answer 33

Blank slate

Question 34

Believes that: Self is simply a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidly are in a perpetual flux and movement. The idea of personal identity is a result of imagination. There is no self.

Answer 34

David Hume

Question 35

Believes that the ego is not the master in its own house.

Answer 35

Sigmund Freud

Question 36

Freud's 3 provinces of the mind

Answer 36

Id Ego Superego

Question 37

Believes that: Self is not just what gives one his personality but also the seat of knowledge acquisition for all human persons. The self construct its own reality creating a world that is familiar and predictable. Through our rationality, the self transcends sense experience.

Answer 37

Immanuel Kant

Question 38

Believes that: Self is not an entity one can locate and analyze but simply the convenient name that people use to refer to all the behaviors that people make. “I act therefore, I am”, in short, the self is the same as bodily behavior The self is the way people behave

Answer 38

Gilbert Ryle

Question 39

Believes that: Self is inseparable from the brain and the physiology of the body All we have is the brain and so, if the brain is gone, there is no self The physical brain and not the imaginary mind, gives us our sense of self The self is the brain

Answer 39

Paul Churchland

Question 40

Believes that: The mind-body bifurcation that has been going on for a long time is a futile endeavor and an invalid problem. All knowledge of our selves and our world is based on subjective experience The self can never truly objectified or known in a completely objective sort of way The self is embodied subjectively

Answer 40

Maurice Merleau-Ponty