"The Nameless Wanderers" (HNRS group 3)

1.     Who wrote The Clouds (423 B.C.)?

-Aristophanes

2.     Who wrote “Democracy in America”?

-Alexis de Tocqueville

3.     Which philosopher did Fidel Castro quote in his autobiography?

-Plato

4.     What is the name of the New York Times’ philosophy blog?

-The Stone

5.     What is a book that speaks to the fact that "America is unphilosophical"?


-Anti-Intellectualism in American Life


-The Big Muddy That Flooded America!


-Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free


-Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future


-The Age of American Unreason


6.     When and where did Plato adopt his moniker of Plato?

-While competing in the Isthmian Games

7.     What did Christopher Phillips call his series of local "Symposiums"?

-Socrates Cafes

8.     What was Aristotle's school in Athens called?

-The Lyceum

9.     What is 'truth by authority'?

-Believing that something must be true because an authority figure has said it

10.  Why did Aristotle title his book Nicomachean Ethics?

-His son's name is Nicomachus

11.  Where and when was Aristotle born?

-Macedonia in 384 BC

12.  What was the name of Aristotle's doctrine, which claims that every virtue lies between to extremes?

-The Golden Mean

13.  What theory of Aristotle's did Galileo disprove in the late Middle Ages?

-His theory that a metal object falls faster than a wood object; Galileo found that they fall at the same rate


14.  What is one example of a philosophical trend with links to empirical disciplines like psychology and cognitive science?

-Experimental Philosophy or the X-Phi movement.


15.  What are experimental philosophers called?

-x-phi'ers

16.  How was Socrates executed?

-He was forced to drink hemlock


17.  What does "philosopher" translate into in Greek?

-"Love of wisdom"

18.  On what charge was Socrates convicted and then executed?

-Corrupting the youth of Athens

19.  Who said "Life is short, art is long"?

-Hippocrates

20.  Who was forced to commit suicide?

-Seneca; Nero forced Seneca to commit suicide because he Seneca was involved in a plot to kill him

21.  What does being philosophical/stoic mean?

-Accepting what you can't change.

22.  How did Epictetus know about pain and hunger?

-He started out as a slave

23.  A Stoic believed the ideal life was to live in a highly populated area. True or false.

-False; A Stoic's ideal life would be to live in isolation, as a recluse


24.  Which of the Roman emperors did Seneca tutor?

-Nero

25.  What is the APA?

-American Philosophical Association.

26.  Who summarized their philosophy by 3 questions: What are things really like?, What attitude should we adopt to them?, What will happen to someone who does adopt that attitude?

-Pyrrho


27.  Describe a "dogmatic".

-Someone who is very confident that they know the truth

28.  Who was the first African-American to hold a job in the Ivy League?

-William Fontaine

29.  What was Pyrrho's philosophy?

Skepticism


30.  What was the name of Epicurus's philosophy school?

-the Garden

31.  Where was Augustine born?

-Tagaste, now Algeria

32.  What was Augustine's philosophy?

-Christianity

33. What language did Boethius translate the works of Plato and Aristotle into?

       -Latin

34. Who wrote a medieval bestseller named The Consolation of Philosophy?

      -Boethius

35. What was one problem St. Augustine agonized over?

      -Why God allowed evil in the world