Global Philosophy

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1. Who was the first Greek philosopher responsible for eradicating the notion of 'mythic causes' for natural phenomena, and established the guiding principles for scientific investigation? Aristippus Socrates Aristotle Plato

2. This Greek thinker established that the origin of the Universe was from a boundless, indefinite 'arche'...perhaps tantamount with the eternal yet evolving God. Plato Anaximander Euclides Pyrrho

3. Which thinker first formulated the usage of the Trinity, in the religious sense? Theophilus Tertullian Plato Proclus

4. He was the most influential Renaissance philosopher, translating for the first time the Dialogues of Plato and Plotinus into Latin. He also wrote a seminal commentary on Plato....'Theology of Plato'- who was he? Machiavelli Ficino St, Augustine Aquinas

5. He was the last of the Cappodicians and perhaps the first Christian philosopher. Bernard of Clairvaux St. Gregory of Nyssa Basil of Caesara Gregory Nazianzen

6. Which of the following Chinese thinkers was a direct descendant intellectually of the great central Asian Buddhist teacher Kumarajiva? Confucius Xun Zi Lao Zi Seng-chao

7. What famous German mystic wrote these words: 'When God looks at the soul he laughs, when the soul looks at God, the soul laughs back at God'? Eckhart Bacon Lull Goethe

8. Who was the Jewish philosopher and doctor of the Middle Ages, who wrote the 'Guide of the Perplexed' in order to help Jewish believers reach a deeper insight into esoteric truths? Averroes Pascal Ibn-rad Maimonides

9. An interesting savant from the Ammonius school, who was first to refute quite successfully the Aristotelian theory of the eternity of the universe? Buridan Philopon Origen Leclerc

10. Coeval philosopher during the time of St. Augustine, who developed a dogma concerning the denial of the 'Original Sin', and determined that humans could perfect themselves or corrupt themselves according to individual lifestyles? Answer: (One Word)