Ortega holds that to do philosophy we must … a)Be creative and…

Ortega holds that to do philosophy we must … a)Be creative and…

 Ortega holds that to do philosophy we must …

a)     Be creative and pay no attention to what past philosophers have thought.

b)     Be familiar with the history of philosophy.

c)     Be in good health.

d)     Both a) and c).

e)     None of the above.

9.          A key belief of Greek Mythology was …

a)     That the physical world had an order.

b)     The value of moderation.

c)     That human life was subject to rules.

d)     All of the above.

e)     None of the above.

15.       Xenophanes criticized the Homeric portrayal of the gods because it …

a)     Magnified in the gods the flaws of human beings.

b)     Did not correctly describe the rituals of sacrifice to the gods.

c)     Had errors in the ranking of the gods.

d)     All of the above.

e)     None of the above.

16.       A philosophical innovation of Xenophanes was to …

a)     Relate philosophy and prayer.

b)     Emphasize the value of sports in leading the good life.

c)     Discuss questions about knowledge.

d)     All of the above.

e)     None of the above.

17.       The Pythagoreans discovered that …

a)     Fundamental reality could not be identified with physical reality.

b)     The essence of things was numbers and figures.

c)     Doing mathematics was a religious activity.

d)     The nature of music was mathematical.

e)     All of the above.

18.       The Pythagoreans held that …

a)     The body was immortal.

b)     When the souls died the body could take another soul.

c)     The soul was an obstacle to contemplation.

d)     All of the above.

e)     None of the above.

 

19.       For Heraclitus reality was …

a)     Chaotic.

b)     Musical.

c)     Fundamentally unchanging.

d)     All of the above.

e)     None of the above.

20.       According to Heraclitus opposition …

a)     Leads inevitably to self-destruction.

b)     Is wrong and evil.

c)     Is necessary and good.

d)     All of the above.

e)     None of the above.

21.       Parmenides believed that …

a)     Thinking was unrelated to being.

b)     We did not perceive change through our senses.

c)     There were many Entities.

d)     All of the above.

e)     None of the above.

22.       For Democritus …

a)     The universe consisted of atoms and the void.

b)     Atoms were material.

c)     The movement of the atoms explains how things come to be and cease to be.

d)     All of the above.

e)     None of the above.

23.       The Sophists held that …

a)     Seeking our self-interest was a matter of physis.

b)     The laws of society were a matter of nomos.

c)     Both a) and b).

d)     The justice of the laws was based on the order of the universe.

e)     None of the above.

24.       Socrates claimed that “a good man cannot be harmed” because …

a)     Nobody would dare to harm a good man.

b)     A good man was protected by the gods.

c)     The worse harm had to be self-inflicted.

d)     All of the above.

e)     None of the above.

25.       To prove that the Forms are real Plato uses the …

a)     Epistemological Argument.

b)     Metaphysical argument.

c)     Semantic argument.

d)     All of the above.

e)     None of the above.

 

26.       For Plato developing knowledge of the Forms was an intellectual and ethical activity.

a)     True.

b)     False.

27.       For Socrates self-awareness of ignorance is a condition for seeking knowledge.

a)     True.

b)     False.

28.       Plato believed that objects could be more or less real.

a)     True.

b)     False.

29.       The “discovery of things” happens within mythic consciousness.

a)     True.

b)     False.

30.       In theoretic consciousness human beings see themselves surrounded by powers.

a)     True.

b)     False.

31.       Having techné is exactly the same as having knowledge.

a)     True.

b) False.

32.       The Greek term arête is broader than the English word virtue.

a)     True.

b)     False.

33.       Socrates changed the direction of philosophy from cosmological to ethical questions.

a)     True.

b)     False.

34.       Socrates believed that the human arete was a certain kind of knowledge.

a)     True.

b)     False.

35.       For Plato the Forms exist outside of our mind.

a)     True.

b)     False.

36.       Having techné is the reason Plato says that the man who knows justice is just.

a)     True.

b)     False.

37.       The Sophists’ view of rhetoric was based philosophically on skepticism and relativism.

a)     True.

b)     False.

39.       The goal of the Socratic Method is for the participants to cooperate in moving closer to the truth.

a)     True.

b)     False.

40.       Socrates claimed that he could “make the weaker argument the stronger.”

a)     True.

b)     False.

41.       For Plato the physical world was more real than the immaterial world of the Forms.

a)     True.

b)     False.

42.       Plato’s philosophy was influenced by Heraclitus and Parmenides.

a)     True.

b)     False.

43.       The Pythagoreans believed that the soul achieved purity by seeking philosophical wisdom.

a)     True.

b)     False.

44.       Proving the error of skepticism and relativism was a passionate concern of Plato.

a)     True.

b)     False.

45.       For Plato each stage of growth in love replaced the previous ones.

a)     True.

b)     False.

46.       Plato held that our own experience shows that peace and harmony are at the core of our self (psyche).

a)     True.

b)     False.

47.       For Plato courage is essentially the subordination of the appetitive to the spirited drive.

a) True.

b) False.

48.       According to Plato the spirited drive of the self always obeys the rational drive.

a) True.

b) False.

49.       For Plato dissatisfaction is what that triggers the transition from one stage of love to the next.

a) True.

b) False.

50.       For Plato having the virtue of justice is what makes our self (psyche) healthy.

a) True.

b) False.