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?
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
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