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Global Philosophy

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Introduction:
"I shall describe the philosophical beliefs of early Greek, Asian, and Roman philosophers...and you dig out the correct figure."


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?
    Aristotle
    Plato
    Socrates
    Aristippus


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.
    Pyrrho
    Plato
    Anaximander
    Euclides


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


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?
    Aquinas
    Machiavelli
    Ficino
    St, Augustine


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


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


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'?
    Lull
    Goethe
    Bacon
    Eckhart


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?
    Pascal
    Averroes
    Maimonides
    Ibn-rad


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


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)


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