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