Transcript Philosophy Jeopardy

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MODERN
If we know that all
philosophers are wise,
this is the premise we
need in order to
conclude that Socrates is
wise
Socrates is a
philosopher
An example would be,
“Plato is both tall and
not tall.”
Contradiction
An example would be,
“either Plato is tall or
Plato is not tall.”
Tautology
No one is granted bail if
they are held for murder.
John is not held for
murder.
Therefore John will be
granted bail
Invalid
Tom is Tall or Tom is Short
Tom is Short or Tom is Wise
Tom is Happy or Tom is Wise
Tom is not Wise
Therefore Tom is Short and
Happy
Valid
This philosopher is most
likely to say, “The chair
you sit upon is a
reflection of a perfect
concept of chair, which
is more real.”
Plato
This philosopher used
paradoxes to refute the
concept that things can
be divided.
Zeno
This philosophical school
said that emotions lead to
unethical behaviour.
Stoicism
This Taoist
epistemological
philosopher may have
been a butterfly
Zuangzi
He would challenge
your assertion that, “I
know for certain that the
earth orbits the sun
because I was told so by
my teacher” and
probably be killed for it.
Socrates
This much disputed
argument says that we
can infer the existence
of God from the idea of
God.
The
Ontological
Argument
This philosopher
justified his ethics with
reference to divine laws
and natural laws.
Saint
Thomas
Aquinas
This philosopher
rejected questions of
metaphysics in favour of
the practical matters of
government.
Niccolo
Machiavelli
This philosopher came
up with the idea of a
social contract to avoid
the pain of natural state
of mankind
Hobbes
He was responsible for
challenging the Ptolemaic
view of the universe.
Copernicus
This philosopher
believed in a basic
oneness to all things and
rejected feelings as an
adequate form of
understanding.
Spinoza
According to Leibniz,
these pre-programmed
elements are the basic
elements of the
universe.
Monads
Both Hume and Locke
advocated this theory of
knowing through senses.
Empiricism
This philosopher believed
that government can only
intervene to support natural
rights. He devised this from
his idea of the “noble
savage”
Rousseau
Hegel believed this to be
the result of the conflict
between a thesis and an
antithesis.
Synthesis
This philosopher
rejected materialism for
a number of reasons,
one of which is that a
lack of value is a value
itself
Whitehead
John Dewey espoused
this theory that insists
that the best way to
know the truth of
something is to test it in
practice.
Pragmatics
This philosopher
believed that the only
way to be free is to
eliminate social class.
Karl Marx
This philosopher used the
myth of Sisyphus as a
metaphor for the human
absurdity of trying to
make sense of a
senseless world
Camus
According to Levi Strauss,
the mind and body, as well
as opposing elements in
mythology are examples of
this.
Dualistic
Elements