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Quiz about Philosophy Philosophical Terminology
Quiz about Philosophy Philosophical Terminology

Philosophy: Philosophical Terminology Quiz


I hope you know your philosophical terms - if you don't, you will not do well on this quiz.

A multiple-choice quiz by rodricushr. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
rodricushr
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
35,192
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
15
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
9 / 15
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Question 1 of 15
1. A conceptual investigation of fundamental issues. Hint


Question 2 of 15
2. The questions - 'What makes right actions right? What are the right actions?' - are questions related to what branch of philosophy, which deals with the question of value? Hint


Question 3 of 15
3. What branch of philosophy studies knowledge? Hint


Question 4 of 15
4. Knowledge gained prior to birth and recollected through reason is associated with what type of philosophy? Hint


Question 5 of 15
5. Knowledge gained through our five senses. Hint


Question 6 of 15
6. What is the view that events are predetermined by an impersonal force or power, and cannot be altered by human action? Hint


Question 7 of 15
7. What is the view that the universe operates like a machine according to the law of cause and effect? Hint


Question 8 of 15
8. Suppose that there is a purpose, goal or final cause to the universe and that it all contributes to achieving an outcome. What is the word for the study of these ends or goals? Hint


Question 9 of 15
9. What is the moral theory holding that the value of an action resides in its utility or use for the production of pleasure or happiness? Hint


Question 10 of 15
10. A cannot be A and not A in the same respect and at the same time. Hint


Question 11 of 15
11. The assumption that one God is the infinite, unitary, all-powerful, perfectly good and self-existing. Hint


Question 12 of 15
12. The reality that there is no god in existence, but that the concept of God only exists in the mind and nowhere else. Hint


Question 13 of 15
13. A Platonic Theory that concepts exist in perfect form within the intelligible world. Hint


Question 14 of 15
14. A 19th-20th Century movement that reflects on the existence of human beings in the real world. Hint


Question 15 of 15
15. A moral theory that the highest greatest good is pleasure. Hint



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1. A conceptual investigation of fundamental issues.

Answer: What is Philosophy?

The etymology of the word philosophy comes from 'philos' which means love, and 'sophia', which means wisdom. Philosophers investigate concepts and important issues in every day life. By examining these things, we can achieve clearer concepts and hopefully make wiser, better people.
2. The questions - 'What makes right actions right? What are the right actions?' - are questions related to what branch of philosophy, which deals with the question of value?

Answer: Axiology

Axiology is the the study of value. Justice, Ethics, and Beauty are some of the subjects concerned within Axiology. Ethics is the study of what is the standard of morality, what is right and wrong. However, ethics is not a branch of Philosophy, but a branch of Axiology that is concerned with Moral Value.
3. What branch of philosophy studies knowledge?

Answer: Epistemology

"What is knowledge?" and "How do we know things?" are questions discussed in Epistemology. Philosophers throughout time have debated whether we get our most important concepts through Empirical Knowledge or A Priori Knowledge.
4. Knowledge gained prior to birth and recollected through reason is associated with what type of philosophy?

Answer: Rationalism

Plato was the first Rationalist. He devised the Two World Theory in which we have the world of sensation and the world of reason. The world of reason is the higher realm where our true perfect concepts exist. According to Socrates in the Meno, the way we get our knowledge is through Recollection of everything we learned 'prior to' (a priori) birth.
5. Knowledge gained through our five senses.

Answer: What is empirical knowledge?

Empiricism is the view that we get our concepts through the sense experience of the world.
6. What is the view that events are predetermined by an impersonal force or power, and cannot be altered by human action?

Answer: Fatalism

Fatalism is an extreme form of Determinism, though not as extreme as Hard Determinism. John Calvin was the most famous theologian who believed in fatalism.
7. What is the view that the universe operates like a machine according to the law of cause and effect?

Answer: Mechanism

Called the Non-Traditional World View, Mechanism holds the view of the universe as a fine tuned machine without real meaning or purpose but functional. Rene Descartes was the first Mechanist, but not in the same respects as today because of the revolutionary thinking of Mechanists like Darwin and Freud.
8. Suppose that there is a purpose, goal or final cause to the universe and that it all contributes to achieving an outcome. What is the word for the study of these ends or goals?

Answer: Teleology

This is the Traditional View of a Divine Creator who gave meaning and purpose to all his creations. The purpose is not yet known but it will achieve a goal.
9. What is the moral theory holding that the value of an action resides in its utility or use for the production of pleasure or happiness?

Answer: Utilitarianism

John Stewart Mill fine tuned the Utilitarian View. The Primary Principle that right actions are right if they produce the greatest amount of good for the greatest amount of people, and the Secondary Principles such as the laws, which work to assure the utility of the Primary {Principle;} such as, Don't Kill, Don't Lie, or Don't Steal.
10. A cannot be A and not A in the same respect and at the same time.

Answer: Law of Noncontradiction

The Law of Noncontradiction is a logical law made apparent by Aristotle and Gottfried von Leibniz, but was originally used in a Socratic Argument within Book IV of Plato's Republic.
11. The assumption that one God is the infinite, unitary, all-powerful, perfectly good and self-existing.

Answer: Monotheism

Theism is a belief in a god, relying totally on faith. Philosophers have argued ways in which we can know God. Descartes' viewed that we can know God by Reason; we know God through our concept of perfection. Empirically, we can know God through the Four Causes; being, everything in existence has an Efficient Cause, or the First Mover of Neoplatonism, God must therefore exist as the Efficient Cause.
12. The reality that there is no god in existence, but that the concept of God only exists in the mind and nowhere else.

Answer: Atheism

Atheism is not a belief it is the absence of belief, which denies the external existence of god in any reality other than the internal concept of a god or gods within our minds. This concept of a god is equivalent to the concepts of Unicorns, Angels, Leprechauns, Humpty Dumpty, and Smurfs.

The existence of a god is viewed as a logical impossibility. The Problem with Evil is a problem for a existence of a perfect god. IF God is good, then why does Evil exist? If God exists and Evil exists, and God created everything; therefore, God must have created evil. Which would not make God good because if evil exists, and God has the power to obliterate Evil, then He must allow Evil to exist.

Other problems occur with the Creation Theory, for if anything in Existence has an Efficient Cause, then who created God? If God is Self-Existing and does not need an Efficient Cause, then that contradicts the Four Cause theory. If God is self-existing it is just as reasonable to view that the universe is self-existing without an efficient cause.
13. A Platonic Theory that concepts exist in perfect form within the intelligible world.

Answer: Theory of Forms

To explain his concept of forms more clearly, Plato used the Allegory of the Cave to represent his Two World Theory and the concept of Perfect Forms. Plato explains his view of forms in the Phaedo where it's believed his idea of forms originated and is examined through Socrates.
14. A 19th-20th Century movement that reflects on the existence of human beings in the real world.

Answer: Existentialism

Heidegger, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche are considered the fuel for the ideas of Existentialism. Jean-Paul Sartre used these ideas and formed his own Metaphysical view in Existentialism. Simone de Beauvior and Albert Camus were some of the people within the moment.
15. A moral theory that the highest greatest good is pleasure.

Answer: Hedonism

Utilitarianism gives a practical account to the value of hedonism.
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