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Cards In This Set
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Question: The Greek
usually thought of as the first western philosopher was who?
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Thales
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Who were the Sophists?
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Traveling teachers
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Plato gives us an account of a meeting between the young
Socrates and one of the greatest of the Presocratic philosophers, who held that
time and change are illusory. Who was it?
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Pamenidies
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: When the oracle at
Delphi told Socrates that he was the wisest man alive, how did he interpret
this?
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He alone knew nothing
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Other than Plato, our best knowledge of Socrates comes from
a major Athenian playwright. Who was it?
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Aristophanes
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: What task does
Descartes set himself at the start of the fifth meditation?
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To establish which of
his ideas are distinct.
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What does Descartes find to be clear in his ideas of bodies?
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Their geometrical properties
such as extension, shape, etc.
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What feature of the idea of God does Descartes claim allows
him to prove God's existence?
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Nessecary existence
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What characteristic must an idea have in order for me to be
certain that it contains truth?
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It must be clear and distinct
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What is a Rationalist
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Someone
who believes that basic knowledge arises from reason.
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In the philosophy of St. Augustine, he sought to unite Christian
theology with what?
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Platonic philosophy
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In the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, he sought to unite
Christian theology with what?
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Aristolliean Philosophy
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According to Anselm, given that God exists in thought, why
does it follow that he must exist in reality as well?
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To exist in reality is greater than to exist in thought
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The second of Aquinas's five
ways of demonstrating the existence of God depends on the nature of what?
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Efficient causes
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: When Arcesilaus
became head of the Academy, how did he promote skepticism?
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By
expounding equally powerful arguments on both sides of a question
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