When people
were asked whom their favo(u)rite philosophers were, which major philosophers
were named?
Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, Mill,
Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein.
What was
Socrates' punishment for "corrupting young minds" in 399 B.C.?
He was made to drink Hemlock
What 4 areas
of American culture lead America to seem embarrassing rather than supportive of
the U.S. as a dynamic philosophical culture?
literature, entertainment, government, and
education
What is the
Socratic method?
challenging someones assumptions and then asking
difficult questions to tease out how little they know.
The word
'philosopher' comes from the Greek word meaning what?
love of wisdom
Factual
Question: What was "The Symposium?"
How was
Socrates killed?
Drinking hemlock.
Who started
Socrates Cafes?
Christopher Phillips
Who helped
found the American Philosophical Practitioners Association?
Lou Marinoff, Ph.D.
Nearly all of
Aristotle's writing survived in what form?
Lecture notes
To whom did
Aristotle dedicate his book, Nicomachean Ethics?
Who taught
Socrates "everything he knows about love?"
The priestess Diotima.
The root
ethika is understood to mean?
The study of character.
Who is the
philosopher that lobbied heavily for philosophers to be able to practice as
therapists?
Lou Marinoff
What
successful conqueror was thought to have been taught by Aristotle? Alexander the Great
Which Ancient
Greek Philosopher was born on the Greek Island of Samos? Epicurus
When did
Pyrrho live?
365-270 BC
Who was
considered to be the most extreme skeptic of all time?
Pyrrho
Who believed
that fear of death was a state of mind to be overcome?
Epicurus
Where was Epicurus
born?
Greek island of Samos in Aegean
Which Stoic
philosopher began life as a slave?
Epictetus
What views
were the Stoics most famous for?
mental control
Who argued
that the fear of death was a waste of time and based on bad logic? Epicurus
What religion
did Augustine follow later in life?
Christianity
Augustine was
from the city of?
Hippo.
What is one of
Augustine's most famous works?
Confessions
of St. Augustine
To which
philosopher did the University of Paris give a honorary doctorate to in 1930?
John Dewey
What
philosophy did Aquinas try to reconcile with Christian theology?
Aristotelian
The book that
Thomas Aquinas wrote was called
Summa
Theologica.
What was
Anselm's main idea?
God exists simply from the idea that we have a
God.
What book did
Aquinas write solely for the purpose of teaching 'infidels?'
Summa
Contra Gentiles.
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