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Quiz by Chris Clark, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Chris Clark
over 10 years ago
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Question 1
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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
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Thales
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Anaximander
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Anaximemes
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Pythagoras
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Hericlitus
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Democritus
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Empedocles
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Zeno
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Anaxagoras
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Parmenides
Question 2
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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.
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Heraclitus
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Pythagoras
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Anaximemes
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Anaximander
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democritus
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Thales
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empedocles
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Zeno
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Anaxagoras
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Parmenides
Question 3
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Thales was concerned with...
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The primary substance being water
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Mathematics
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The true nature of things
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theory of forms
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The nature of the element air
Question 4
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What is true about Thale's pupil Anaximander's contribution to Philosophy?
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All life arose from the sea
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Air is at the root of all things
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He invented the notion of the boundless
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Something either IS or IS NOT i.e a cow vs. a unicorn
Question 5
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Which of the following best describes Zeno?
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He frequently uses poetry to convey his ideas about reality being static and indivisible
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He is primarily concerned with morals and human behavior rather than physical nature
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He reinforced Parmenides idea of "The One" through a series of paradoxes to show that motion and seperation are an illusion
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He devised the concept of nous, a cognative force in the universe that maintains order
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Reality is in alternating states of eros (love) and aron (strife)
Question 6
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Who came up with the idea of atomism?
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Anaxagoras
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Parmenides
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Pythagoras
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Anaximemes
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Zeno
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Plato
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Democritus
Question 7
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Anaxagoras believed that existance is ruled by a cycle of love and strife
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- True
- False
Question 8
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Protagoras belived that
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Whatever the 'divine power' makes true is true
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Whatever people believe is true
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Sensory knowledge is the most true
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Cognitive knowledge is the most true
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True knowledge is an illusion
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