PHILOSOPHY 1A03 (PHILOSOPHICAL
TEXTS) MCMASTER UNIVERSITY EXAM
WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS { GRADED A+}
When was pre-socratic philosophy - ✔✔600-500BCE
What did Anaximander believe? - ✔✔The arche is the aperion, it is
unbounded, limitless.
Because it is unbounded, there is no beginning.
arrives at the idea of first causes, first cause must be boundless.
what is the arche-anaximander - ✔✔the force through all nature
,What did Xenophanes believe? - ✔✔That history could teach people to
live moral lives.
First to attack anthropomorphic gods and poets.
believed god was omnipresent.
Had a singular idea of god, but it was different because his idea wasn't
childish.
"mortals deem that the gods are begotten as they are, and have clothes
the same as theirs" - ✔✔Xenophanes
What did Heraclitus believe? - ✔✔Logos:
1.) language. 2.) definition. 3.) systematic knowledge.
told people not to listen to him but the argument.
all things come to pass in accordance to logos.
logos makes humans profound, our soul is at best when it's logical.
no one is born wise, we acquire wisdom only through strenuous effort.
, "you will not find boundaries of soul by travelling" - ✔✔Heraclitus.
What did Pythagoras believe? - ✔✔Pythagoras believed in the
transmigration of the soul and that the secret of understanding nature lies
in mathematics.
Perfecting knowledge and you will live happily.
focused on the soul
new concept of independent soul removes barrier that Olympian religion
had places between gods and souls.
new idea of soul provides new idea of kinship and gods/
soul is vitality to your body
what is Psuche - ✔✔Soul - Pythagoras.
What did Parmenides believe? - ✔✔Believed that if one can talk
sensibly about something then it must exist. Believed that there must be
a stagnant unchanging reality or else things wouldn't make sense to us
and therefore not exist.
TEXTS) MCMASTER UNIVERSITY EXAM
WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS { GRADED A+}
When was pre-socratic philosophy - ✔✔600-500BCE
What did Anaximander believe? - ✔✔The arche is the aperion, it is
unbounded, limitless.
Because it is unbounded, there is no beginning.
arrives at the idea of first causes, first cause must be boundless.
what is the arche-anaximander - ✔✔the force through all nature
,What did Xenophanes believe? - ✔✔That history could teach people to
live moral lives.
First to attack anthropomorphic gods and poets.
believed god was omnipresent.
Had a singular idea of god, but it was different because his idea wasn't
childish.
"mortals deem that the gods are begotten as they are, and have clothes
the same as theirs" - ✔✔Xenophanes
What did Heraclitus believe? - ✔✔Logos:
1.) language. 2.) definition. 3.) systematic knowledge.
told people not to listen to him but the argument.
all things come to pass in accordance to logos.
logos makes humans profound, our soul is at best when it's logical.
no one is born wise, we acquire wisdom only through strenuous effort.
, "you will not find boundaries of soul by travelling" - ✔✔Heraclitus.
What did Pythagoras believe? - ✔✔Pythagoras believed in the
transmigration of the soul and that the secret of understanding nature lies
in mathematics.
Perfecting knowledge and you will live happily.
focused on the soul
new concept of independent soul removes barrier that Olympian religion
had places between gods and souls.
new idea of soul provides new idea of kinship and gods/
soul is vitality to your body
what is Psuche - ✔✔Soul - Pythagoras.
What did Parmenides believe? - ✔✔Believed that if one can talk
sensibly about something then it must exist. Believed that there must be
a stagnant unchanging reality or else things wouldn't make sense to us
and therefore not exist.
