A) Heraclitus B) Pythagoras C) Socrates D) Plato
A) Sparta B) Rome C) Stagira D) Athens
A) Peripatetic School B) Pythagorean School C) Plato's Academy D) Epicurean Garden
A) Virtue ethics B) Utilitarianism C) Deontological ethics D) Existentialism
A) Seneca B) Cicero C) Alexander the Great D) Socrates
A) Aporia B) Anamnesis C) Entelechy D) Eudaimonia
A) Sophia B) Techne C) Episteme D) Phronesis
A) Parva Naturalia B) Physics C) Categories D) Organon
A) Sculpture B) Music C) Drama D) Painting
A) Alexander the Great B) Plato C) Philip II of Macedon D) Nicomachus
A) Around eighteen years old B) Thirty-seven years old C) Fifty-five years old D) Thirteen years old
A) He was invited to tutor Alexander by Philip II of Macedon B) Plato requested him to leave C) He wanted to establish his own school immediately D) Disappointment with the academy's direction after Speusippus took over and anti-Macedonian sentiments
A) A student from Plato's Academy B) A noblewoman from Macedon C) Pythias, Hermias's adoptive daughter and niece D) Herpyllis of Stagira
A) The Academy B) The Peripatetic School C) Mieza D) The Lyceum
A) Antipater B) Aristoxenus C) Eudemus D) Theophrastus
A) Alexander's disinterest in philosophy B) Diverging opinions over issues like the treatment of conquered populations C) Disagreements about Aristotle's teaching methods D) Aristotle's refusal to tutor Alexander
A) I am leaving for a better opportunity B) I have no more work to do here C) I will return once the situation calms down D) I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy
A) Assos B) Pella C) Athens D) Chalcis, Euboea
A) Posterior Analytics B) Prior Analytics C) Organon D) Metaphysics
A) Posterior Analytics B) Categories C) Rhetoric D) On Interpretation
A) Logic B) Epistemology C) Analytics D) Metaphysics
A) Prior Analytics B) Categories C) Posterior Analytics D) Metaphysics
A) Hylomorphism B) Empiricism C) Dualism D) Rationalism
A) On Interpretation B) Prior Analytics C) Categories D) Metaphysics (Book VIII)
A) Universals do not actually exist. B) Universals exist in a separate world of forms. C) Universals are multiply located within particular substances. D) Universals only exist as mental constructs.
A) It refers to growth and diminution in quantity. B) It is a change where the substrate itself changes, involving potentiality becoming actuality. C) It is merely locomotion or spatial change. D) It is alteration or change in quality.
A) Quintessence. B) Ether. C) Matter. D) Aether.
A) Galileo. B) Isaac Newton. C) Archimedes. D) John Philoponus.
A) Metal boats can float if they displace enough water. B) All metal objects sink. C) Only wooden objects can float. D) Floating depends on the object's elemental composition.
A) Material cause B) Formal cause C) The divine cause D) Final cause
A) The purpose or function that something serves B) The agent causing a change C) The material out of which something is made D) The design of an object
A) Efficient cause B) Formal cause C) Material cause D) Final cause
A) Mammals B) Fish C) Birds D) Cephalopods
A) Hibernation ability B) Echolocation C) Bioluminescence D) Four-chambered stomachs
A) Gestation period B) Lifespan C) Fecundity D) Brood size
A) Lifespan B) Gestation period C) Brood size D) Fecundity
A) About 500 B) Less than 300 C) Over 1000 D) Exactly 700
A) In the mind B) In the brain C) In the liver D) In the heart
A) As warm-blooded creatures B) As vertebrates C) As invertebrates D) As cold-blooded creatures
A) Birds are cold-blooded B) Insects lay eggs C) Sharks have a placenta D) Fish can give live birth
A) Plato B) Hippocrates C) The Egyptians D) Socrates
A) Eudaimonia B) Arete C) Phronesis D) Nous
A) Wealth and status B) A good character (ēthikē aretē) C) Artistic talent D) Physical strength
A) Economic stability B) The city C) The individual D) Avoidance of injustice
A) Oligarchy B) The law C) Social contract theory D) Democracy
A) "Property-qualification" B) "The intelligent man" C) "Economic prosperity" D) "Fear of violent death"
A) Metaphysics B) Rhetoric C) Politics D) Nicomachean Ethics
A) People cannot agree on shared values. B) Communal property leads to economic stagnation. C) They are too complex to manage. D) Such evils come from human nature.
A) Forensic B) Dialectical C) Epideictic D) Deliberative
A) An emotional appeal. B) A logical fallacy. C) Proof by example. D) Proof by syllogism.
A) Logical reasoning without examples. B) An appeal to the audience's emotions. C) Proof through authority. D) Proof by example.
A) Sculpture B) Music C) Dance D) Poetry
A) Spectacle B) Character development C) Lyric poetry D) Plot-structure
A) Epic mimesis B) Tragic mimesis C) Both are equally superior D) Neither; they are incomparable
A) Comedy is always humorous, while tragedy is serious B) Comedy imitates men worse than average, while tragedy imitates men slightly better than average C) Comedy focuses on plot, while tragedy focuses on character D) Comedy uses music, while tragedy does not
A) Historical figures B) Everyday people without distinction C) Heroes and gods D) Men worse than average
A) Only the portion focusing on tragedy has survived B) No part of the original work has survived C) The entire work is available today D) Both books on comedy and tragedy have survived
A) Bryan Magee B) Plato C) Taneli Kukkonen D) Jonathan Barnes
A) Biology B) Psychology C) Zoology D) Meteorology
A) Plato B) Bryan Magee C) Taneli Kukkonen D) Jonathan Barnes
A) Logic B) Psychology C) Political Science D) Zoology
A) First scientist B) Scientific method pioneer C) Exceptionally forceful mind D) Father of logic
A) Bryan Magee B) Plato C) Jonathan Barnes D) Taneli Kukkonen
A) Scientific method B) Political theory C) Zoology D) Logic
A) Teleology B) Realism C) Physics D) Meteorology
A) Moderate B) Limited C) Influential D) Unmatched
A) An unknown figure B) The last philosopher C) The first scientist D) A minor thinker
A) Carpel B) Cell C) Organism D) Atom
A) Commentaries on other philosophers B) Intended for the public C) Technical philosophical treatises D) For use within the Lyceum school
A) Cynicism B) Stoicism C) Neoplatonism D) Epicureanism
A) De Interpretatione B) Nicomachean Ethics C) Isagoge D) Metaphysics
A) Porphyry of Tyre B) Ammonius Hermiae C) Syrianus D) John Philoponus
A) Aristotle's works B) Stoic writings C) Epicurus' works D) Cynic teachings
A) Moses Maimonides B) Al-Kindi C) Anna Comnena D) Thomas Aquinas
A) Sophistical Refutations B) Topics C) Posterior Analytics D) Prior Analytics
A) Fatimid Caliphate B) Abbasid Caliphate C) Umayyad Caliphate D) Ottoman Empire
A) Moses Maimonides B) Thomas Aquinas C) Al-Farabi D) Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
A) Averroes B) Thomas Aquinas C) Al-Farabi D) Moses Maimonides
A) Moses Maimonides B) Al-Farabi C) Ibn Sina (Avicenna) D) Thomas Aquinas
A) Aristotle B) Al-Farabi C) Socrates D) Plato
A) James of Venice B) William of Moerbeke C) Gerard of Cremona D) Boethius
A) Galileo Galilei B) Charles Darwin C) William Harvey D) George Boole
A) Galileo Galilei B) Charles Darwin C) George Boole D) William Harvey
A) Charles Darwin B) George Boole C) Galileo Galilei D) William Harvey
A) Armand Marie Leroi B) Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis C) Bertrand Russell D) Peter Medawar
A) Repulsive B) Logical C) Inspiring D) Innovative
A) Copernican heliocentrism B) Newtonian physics C) Ptolemaic astronomy D) Darwinian evolution
A) Homology B) Mutation C) Genetics D) Natural selection
A) Raphael B) Jusepe de Ribera C) Rembrandt D) Paolo Veronese
A) Vatican's Apostolic Palace B) British Museum C) Louvre Museum D) Hermitage Museum
A) Francesco Hayez B) Lucas Cranach the Elder C) Rembrandt D) Raphael
A) Nicomachean Ethics B) Politics C) Poetics D) Meteorology
A) Antarctica B) Terra Australis C) Australis D) Southern Continent
A) Socrates B) Aristoteles C) Pythagoras D) Plato
A) (433) Eros B) (4) Vesta C) (1) Ceres D) (6123) Aristoteles |