Philosophy

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1. What was the school of philosophy that was founded by Pyrrho of Elis about the same time that Stoic philosophy and Epicureanism flourished, that teaches that we can and know nothing? Answer: (One Word)

2. This was a great philosopher of the early Middle ages who wrote The City of God. Who was this philosopher, who interpreted human history as conflict between faithful Christians living in the city of God and heretics living in the city of the world? Saint Augustine Neitzche Aristotle Plato

3. This philosopher believed that the actual world in only one of many possible worlds. He tried to show how the actual world is the best of all possible worlds in an effort to justify the ways of God to humanity. Who was this philosopher, whose work in mathematics anticipated the development of symbolic logic? Answer: (One Word)

4. Beginning in the 1100's, what was the movement in China that incorporated elements of Taoism, Mohism, and realism? Humanism Confucianism Neo - Confucianism Hedonism

5. An ancient philosopher, he invented the idea of a science and of separate sciences, each having distinct principles and dealing with different subject matter. Name this greatest pupil of Plato. Answer: (One Word)

6. What is the branch of metaphysics that is the study of being? Answer: (One Word)

7. This was a revived version of some of Plato's ideas as adapted by Plotinus. Name this school of thought that provided the bridge between Greek philosophy and early Christian philosophy. Answer: (One Word)

8. What is the term that refers to this method of philosophic investigation used by teachers of philosophy and theology in the newly developing universities of western Europe that dominated medieval philosophy from about the 1100s to the 1400s? hedonism scholasticism neoplatonism Taoism

9. What is the belief that the pleasure is the highest good? rationalism humanism ethics hedonism

10. What is aesthetics? the view that experience is the source and test of knowledge the branch of philosophy that studies art and beauty the branch of philosophy that studies the nature, basis, and extent of knowledge a belief that only matter has real existence and that mental phenomena are produced by the activity