EXAM 2 TROCCHIA JMU PHIL
101 Questions and answ er s w ith
accur ate r ationales(PASSED)
philosophical question - answer a demand for meaning of what we are saying,
different than a question of fact
science - answer meaning is assumed, demand for fact, shared meaning behind
basic terms, agreement of meaning necessary to establish facts, need ability to
verify, what WE verify
philosophy - answer demand for meaning, dig up meaning for terms like right or
wrong, good or evil, metaphysics
metaphysics - answer reality and appearance, being and existence, time and
change
Arthur Schopenhauer - answer humans are the only beings that marvel at our
existence
philosophy of religion - answer god(s), divine power and knowledge, providence,
good and evil, faith, revelation
existentialism - answer human being/condition, life and death, freedom and
choice, self and authenticity, nothingness
,philosophy of art and aesthetics, philosophy of literature and poetry - answer
beauty and expression, value and perception, form and analogy, metaphor and
clarity. art is perception of value
ethics - answer right and wrong, good/evil, virtue/vice, character/conduct, value
philosophy of science - answer space, distance, law, hypothesis, fact, verification
ontology - answer area of metaphysics that studies being, the kinds of beings that
there are, and the forms or modes of being
the ontological argument - answer argument dealing with the being of God
borges - answer he said that metaphysics lurks in the very origins of language.
language takes us to the past or future with tenses
wittgenstein - answer he said philosophical problems have deep roots in us and
significance
durant - answer he said science dissolves whole into parts, science gives us
knowledge, but only philosophy gives us wisdom. science is to observe process
and to construct means, philosophy is to criticize and coordinate
epistemology - answer how we know what we know
, philosopher - answer lover of wisdom
presocratics - answer movement of understanding the world beyond mythological
accounts of gods, not restricting explanations of nature and reality to myths; new
dynamic between logos (reason) and mythos (narrative)
thales - answer said that water is the fundamental thing
empedocles - answer four fundamental elements (earth, water, air, fire) unified by
love and torn apart by strife
anthropomorphism - answer representation of gods or nature or non-human
animals as having human thoughts and intentions
John Berger - answer he said depth of experience determines accumulation of
experience; not a question of length but of depth or density
heraclitus - answer obscure and weeping philosopher, believes language covers
reality rather than captures it
harrington - answer he said that language rests on permanence of meaning so it
will always misrepresent a world without permanence
Heraclitus is a philosopher of - answer becoming, believes everything is in radical
flux
101 Questions and answ er s w ith
accur ate r ationales(PASSED)
philosophical question - answer a demand for meaning of what we are saying,
different than a question of fact
science - answer meaning is assumed, demand for fact, shared meaning behind
basic terms, agreement of meaning necessary to establish facts, need ability to
verify, what WE verify
philosophy - answer demand for meaning, dig up meaning for terms like right or
wrong, good or evil, metaphysics
metaphysics - answer reality and appearance, being and existence, time and
change
Arthur Schopenhauer - answer humans are the only beings that marvel at our
existence
philosophy of religion - answer god(s), divine power and knowledge, providence,
good and evil, faith, revelation
existentialism - answer human being/condition, life and death, freedom and
choice, self and authenticity, nothingness
,philosophy of art and aesthetics, philosophy of literature and poetry - answer
beauty and expression, value and perception, form and analogy, metaphor and
clarity. art is perception of value
ethics - answer right and wrong, good/evil, virtue/vice, character/conduct, value
philosophy of science - answer space, distance, law, hypothesis, fact, verification
ontology - answer area of metaphysics that studies being, the kinds of beings that
there are, and the forms or modes of being
the ontological argument - answer argument dealing with the being of God
borges - answer he said that metaphysics lurks in the very origins of language.
language takes us to the past or future with tenses
wittgenstein - answer he said philosophical problems have deep roots in us and
significance
durant - answer he said science dissolves whole into parts, science gives us
knowledge, but only philosophy gives us wisdom. science is to observe process
and to construct means, philosophy is to criticize and coordinate
epistemology - answer how we know what we know
, philosopher - answer lover of wisdom
presocratics - answer movement of understanding the world beyond mythological
accounts of gods, not restricting explanations of nature and reality to myths; new
dynamic between logos (reason) and mythos (narrative)
thales - answer said that water is the fundamental thing
empedocles - answer four fundamental elements (earth, water, air, fire) unified by
love and torn apart by strife
anthropomorphism - answer representation of gods or nature or non-human
animals as having human thoughts and intentions
John Berger - answer he said depth of experience determines accumulation of
experience; not a question of length but of depth or density
heraclitus - answer obscure and weeping philosopher, believes language covers
reality rather than captures it
harrington - answer he said that language rests on permanence of meaning so it
will always misrepresent a world without permanence
Heraclitus is a philosopher of - answer becoming, believes everything is in radical
flux
