Western Philosophy | Set 1
1. The original principle of this universe is------- according to Thales
2. Thales is a------ philosopher
3. -------- was counted among the Seven Wise Men
4. The arche of things is apeiron, according to ------
5. According to Anaximenes--- is the first principle
6. Who said number is the essence and basis of all things?
7. Who is known as the Father of Western Philosophy?
8. Who advocated theory of atoms?
9. Who is the main atomist?
10. Protagoras is a ------Philosopher
11. Man is the measure of all things, according to ------
12. Democritus and Leucippus are belonging to------ school
13. ----- was the first Athenian born Philosopher
14. Knowledge is relative associated with
15. Maieutic method is by ------Philosopher
16. Who said that the unexamined life is not worth living?
17. Socrates is a prominent ------ philosopher
18. Whose doctrine is ?Know Thyself??
19. Socrates is a mentor of --------
20. ---- invented the dialectic method of finding truth through conversation
21. Athens where Plato established ------, the first university in the Western
world
22. In his famous ?Allegory of the Cave,? ----- relates a story illustrating the
journey of the soul from ignorance to knowledge.
23. The Republic is the famous work of ---------
24. Theory of truth lies in the theory of Ideas is the philosophy of
25. Who distinguished world of ideas and physical world?
26. Aristotle mentioned theory of truth in his work------
27. For Plato, ---- are eternal ideas beyond the physical world.
29. Aristotle was a student of ---
30. Who founded a school in Athens called Lyceum.
31. ?There is no form without matter and no matter without form.?
32. Matter is the substance out of which everything in the world is made is
the statement of -----
33. Who discovered four causes that govern change in everything?
34. Who believed that God created the world out of nothing and before God
created the world nothing existed?
35. The City of God is the work of ----
36. ------- predicted an eclipse of the sun
37. Who was the first Milesian materialist philosopher?
38. The major source of Thales?s philosophy is by
39. Who said that living things are always moist?
40. Anaximander belongs to --------
41. Anaximander, a philosopher came after ------
42. apeiron in Anaximander means -----
43. Anaximander's cosmogony gives rise to a
44. Who said that in the beginning man was similar to a different animal,
namely, a fish.
45. The thinkers of Milesian school were the thinkers of ------
46. Pythagoras was born on-------
47. Who believed in the immortality, transmigration, and reincarnation of
souls?
48. Who included various dietary restrictions against meat and beans.
49. Central to Pythagoreanism is the idea that --------- accounts take
precedence over material things.
50. ------is a Philosopher who made a distinction between mind and matter
51. Who said that everything is a mixture of earth, air, fire, and water
52. ------- philosopher is the main source of Anaxagoras
53. -----gave a power and grandeur to Athenian Democracy
54. -- --is an important element introduced by Anaxagoras into his
philosophy and it is the cause of motion.
55. The atomists are the last pre-Socratics and they follow------
56. The word atom means ----
57. ------is believed to be a disciple of Leucippus
58. ------ say that all things consist of a single kind of matter broken into
tiny particles.
59. Who claimed that there are two fundamental types of elements: atoms
and void.
60. Who held that the atoms were so small as to be invisible?
61. Sophia which means -----
62. Protagoras a native of --------in northeast Greece
63. Who was the first of the professional Sophists?
64. Who said that instead of speaking well think well?
65. Truth and On the Gods are the woks of -------
66. ------ were more concerned with public speaking, rather than thinking
well.
67. Man is the measure of all things, says -----
69. --- ?says that knowledge is an adjustment between the knower and the
object known
70. -----was known as a self- taught philosopher
71. Who was known as the street genius philosopher?
72. Who was the author of philosophic tendency and of a Philosophic
method of irony?
73. Who said that the first step is to be wise is to admit that one is not wise.
74. According to ------, knowledge is virtue and ignorance is vice
75. Who said that as virtue is knowledge, so virtue can be thought?
76. The highest ideal according to Socrates is -----
78. The mentor of Aristotle is ---
79. Who was the founder of Academy?
80. Apology is the famous work of ---------
81. The concepts lies in the transcendental world is the philosophy of --------
82. Who distinguished knowledge and doxa?
83. The theory of forms/ideas/concepts/essences is the Philosophy of -------
84. Plato wrote ------ dialogues
85. Who wrote Theaetetus?
86. Who said that true knowledge lies in conceptual level?
87. ------stated that the best possible political system (state) will be ruled by
philosophers.
88. Whose philosophy is that one who knows the difference between
knowledge, ignorance, and opinion
89. The perceptible world (i.e., the world we perceive through our senses) is
a reflection or copy of that higher intelligible world is the philosophy of ------
90. The Greek word for ?forms? in Plato is ---------
91. Plato divided human soul into -------parts
92. Plato?s Theory of Ideas was severely criticized by -------
93. Plato admit the immortality of soul in his ---- dialogue
94. ----------is a philosopher who was born at Stagira
95. Which of the following philosopher who taught Alexander, the Great
96. Which thinker who went to Athens and joined Plato?s Academy.
97. The works of------ are divided into two types-exoteric and esoteric.
98. Who wrote the famous work the Metaphysics?
99. Who defined substance is something that we can point out as ?this?
100. Who made the statement that Universals are extremely real but are not
separable from their particulars.