Hzt 4u Unit One Test Review Sheet

HZT 4U Unit One Test Themes: 1) General Introduction of Philosophy 2) Epistemology The Unit Test will have the following styles of questions on the test: - Matching ( 5 mins) - Multiple Choise ( 10 mins) - Essay Question ( 35 mins)

Terms to Define / Explain / Apply: Philosophy autonomy materialists empiricist Argument syllogism Socratic method truth Greek Rationalism epistemology rationalist reason A priori knowledge skepticism direct knowledge causality A posteriori knowledge sophists indirect knowledge Deconstructionism Edifying pragmatism “cogito ergo sum” “tabula rasa” Paradigm Shift knowledge philosophical system builder thought experiment

Philosophers to Recognize Thales of Miletus Socrates Plato Aristotle

Thomas Aquinas Rene Descartes Immanuel Kant David Hume

Jacques Derrida Abraham Maslowe Edmund Gettier Richard Rorty

Sample Question 1. Explain the basic nature and purpose of philosophy. Why should we study philosophy? Explain Plato’s view of philosophical activity (Use the Allegory of the Cave as a specific example). Explain the basic method by which Socrates would engage in philosophical discussion – how did this method reflect the purpose of philosophy? Explain how Maslowe’s Heirachy of needs illustrates how philosophy can assist humanity in meeting their full potential. 2. Use the flow chart from the film, “The Day the Universe Changed – It

Started With the Greeks!” Explain the relationship between philosophy, science, technology and religion as it is represented in this documentary film.

3. Describe how the ideas of philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle have influenced subsequent philosophers like Rene Descartes (deductive reasoning), John Locke, and Immanuel Kant, and Thomas Aquinas 4. Identify and explain the six basic divisions of philosophy. Why has philosophy been subdivided into these different areas of philosophy? 5. Compare and contrast the various theories of the perception of truth (Plato’s theory, common-sense realism, representative theory, subjective idealism, phenomoenalism, correspondence theory of truth, coherence theory, pragmatic theory).

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