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

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How well do you know the great minds of Ancient Greece?
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Pregunta 1

Pregunta
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
Respuesta
  • Thales
  • Anaximander
  • Anaximemes
  • Pythagoras
  • Hericlitus
  • Democritus
  • Empedocles
  • Zeno
  • Anaxagoras
  • Parmenides

Pregunta 2

Pregunta
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.
Respuesta
  • Heraclitus
  • Pythagoras
  • Anaximemes
  • Anaximander
  • democritus
  • Thales
  • empedocles
  • Zeno
  • Anaxagoras
  • Parmenides

Pregunta 3

Pregunta
Thales was concerned with...
Respuesta
  • The primary substance being water
  • Mathematics
  • The true nature of things
  • theory of forms
  • The nature of the element air

Pregunta 4

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

Pregunta 5

Pregunta
Which of the following best describes Zeno?
Respuesta
  • 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)

Pregunta 6

Pregunta
Who came up with the idea of atomism?
Respuesta
  • Anaxagoras
  • Parmenides
  • Pythagoras
  • Anaximemes
  • Zeno
  • Plato
  • Democritus

Pregunta 7

Pregunta
Anaxagoras believed that existance is ruled by a cycle of love and strife
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 8

Pregunta
Protagoras belived that
Respuesta
  • 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
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