PHIL Quizzes

The systematic use of critical reasoning to try to find answers to fundamental questions about reality, morality, and knowledge is called ______.

Philosophical method

At his trial, Socrates refuses to cease __________

Philosophizing

Anaximander contends that everything came from a formless, imperishable substance called ______.

Apeiron

Philosophers provide reasons for thinking their ideas are plausible-that is, they give us _______.

Arguments

The Sophists prefer __________ explanations of phenomena

Naturalistic

The Oracle and Delphi declared no one was _______ than Socrates.

Wiser

Socrates claims to be a _______ for Athens' sake.

Gadfly

For Socrates, the soul is harmed by lack of __________.

Knowledge

The four main divisions of philosophy are metaphysics, epistemology, axiology (value theory), and ________.

Logic

True or False? Heraclitus and Democritus share the same view of reality.

false

Democritus advances the theory known as ancient __________

Atomism

Atheism and __________ is the contradiction regarding the gods that Socrates says his accusers put forth

Creating new divinities

Socrates claims that __________ is not to be feared

Death

Plato and Xenophon wrote ______ featuring Socrates' method.

Dialogues

Whenever someone says "How do you know that's true?" they are asking one of the fundamental questions of ______.

Epistemology

True or False? Heraclitus rejects the idea of an organizing principle of the universe.

False

The study of correct reasoning is called _____.

Logic

Jordan gets some very bad news. His girlfriend spent all their savings on risky stock market bets that didn't pay off. She says she'll never do it again, but Jordan thinks that maybe he should end the relationship anyway. What branch of philosophy could he turn to for insights about what he should do?

Ethics

Democritus posits the void, which is __________

Not the same as nothing

Parmenides argues that reality consists of the ______.

One

The Sophists were skilled at, among other things, __________

Rhetoric

Socrates is concerned with _______.

The state of one's soul

For Socrates the good of the soul is attained only through an uncompromising search for ______.

What's real and true

In the Apology, Socrates declares _________

"The unexamined life is not worth living"

Your friend says "The Rise of Skywalker was a terrible movie- it rejected everything interesting about The Last Jedi, and ended the saga in a dull way that never actually brought balance to the Force." Which branch of philosophy deals with these kinds of judgements about the arts?

Aesthetics