Plato’s dialogue, the Symposium, records a conversation held at the house of which poet?
Correct answer(s):
- Agathon
Subject
Philosophy
Philosophy, come from Greek philosophia, literally “love of wisdom, is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.
Traditionally, the term “philosophy” referred to any body of knowledge. In this sense, philosophy is closely related to religion, mathematics, natural science, education and politics. Newton’s 1687 “Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy” is classified in the 2000s as a book of physics; he used the term “natural philosophy” because it used to encompass disciplines that later became associated with sciences such as astronomy, medicine and physics.
Quizzes in Philosophy
Who claimed, “Nothing exist, even if it exists it cannot be apprehended; even if it apprehended it cannot be communicated to another”?
Correct answer(s):
- Gorgias
Name the Megarian logician, a pupil of Euclides, who is said to have formulated the Lair Paradox?
Correct answer(s):
- Eubulides
Who wrote a work entitled Little World-System?
Correct answer(s):
- Democritus
Which Athenian colony, founded in 444 BC, was Protagorus, the earliest self-proclaimed Sophist, asked to write a Constitution for?
Correct answer(s):
- Thurii
IN 399 BC, who officially accused Socrates when he was charged with impiety?
Correct answer(s):
- Miletus
In 366 BC, which tyrant of Syracuse did Plato attempt to convert to philosophy?
Correct answer(s):
- Dionysius
Who wrote, “How could hair come from what is not hair or flesh from what is not flesh”?
Correct answer(s):
- Anaxagoras
Which Greek philosopher statesman a pupil of Parmenides, commanded the Samian fleet which defeated the Athenians under Pericles in 441 BC?
Correct answer(s):
- Melissus
who invited Aristotle to Macedon to tutor his son?
Correct answer(s):
- King Philip II of Macedon
Which ancient thinker was said to have a golden thigh?
Correct answer(s):
- Pythagoras
Which philosopher after Parmenides, wrote his extent works, Purification and On Nature, in hexameter verse?
Correct answer(s):
- Empedocles
Which philosopher devised the argument known as the Stadium?
Correct answer(s):
- Zeno
With which philosopher is the river fragment associated?
Correct answer(s):
- Heraclitus
In which city did Aristotle take refuge following anti-Macedonian reactions in Athens in 323 BC, reportedly saying that he was saving the Athenians from sinning twice against philosophy?
Correct answer(s):
- Chalcis
Which Greek philosopher, a disciple of Gorgias, co-founded the Cynic school along with his pupil Diogenes?
Correct answer(s):
- Antisthenes
Which Greek philosopher is said to have first made a map of the inhabited world?
Correct answer(s):
- Anaximander
Which city in Ionia did Anaximenes, the philosopher, come from?
Correct answer(s):
- Miletus
Name the disciple of Aristotle who wrote a digest on the opinions of the pre-Socratics?
Correct answer(s):
- Theophrastus
Which philosopher predicted an eclipse of the sun, according to modern calculations in 585 BC?
Correct answer(s):
- Thales