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How well do you know the great minds of Ancient Greece?

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Do you know the presocratic philosophers? aka the muffin men pt1

Question 1 of 8

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The world is an ever-living fire (flux) of conflict and struggle. This process is what keeps reality in a stasis. The process of change is a product of universal reason (logos). What appear to be disjointed events are actually intimately harmonized

Select one or more of the following:

  • Thales

  • Anaximander

  • Anaximemes

  • Pythagoras

  • Hericlitus

  • Democritus

  • Empedocles

  • Zeno

  • Anaxagoras

  • Parmenides

Explanation

Question 2 of 8

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The only reality is in the certain. That certain is mathematics.Everything can be represented as numbers. The chief goal of rational thought is to purify the soul.

Select one or more of the following:

  • Heraclitus

  • Pythagoras

  • Anaximemes

  • Anaximander

  • democritus

  • Thales

  • empedocles

  • Zeno

  • Anaxagoras

  • Parmenides

Explanation

Question 3 of 8

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Thales was concerned with...

Select one or more of the following:

  • The primary substance being water

  • Mathematics

  • The true nature of things

  • theory of forms

  • The nature of the element air

Explanation

Question 4 of 8

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What is true about Thale's pupil Anaximander's contribution to Philosophy?

Select one or more of the following:

  • All life arose from the sea

  • Air is at the root of all things

  • He invented the notion of the boundless

  • Something either IS or IS NOT i.e a cow vs. a unicorn

Explanation

Question 5 of 8

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Which of the following best describes Zeno?

Select one of the following:

  • He frequently uses poetry to convey his ideas about reality being static and indivisible

  • He is primarily concerned with morals and human behavior rather than physical nature

  • He reinforced Parmenides idea of "The One" through a series of paradoxes to show that motion and seperation are an illusion

  • He devised the concept of nous, a cognative force in the universe that maintains order

  • Reality is in alternating states of eros (love) and aron (strife)

Explanation

Question 6 of 8

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Who came up with the idea of atomism?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Anaxagoras

  • Parmenides

  • Pythagoras

  • Anaximemes

  • Zeno

  • Plato

  • Democritus

Explanation

Question 7 of 8

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Anaxagoras believed that existance is ruled by a cycle of love and strife

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 8 of 8

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Protagoras belived that

Select one of the following:

  • Whatever the 'divine power' makes true is true

  • Whatever people believe is true

  • Sensory knowledge is the most true

  • Cognitive knowledge is the most true

  • True knowledge is an illusion

Explanation

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