CoPhilosophy Sec.16, factual questions - October

• What is German word for Nietzsche’s final state of man’s evolution?

• Nietzsche said, “Man does not live for ____. Only the Englishman does.”

• A: pleasure• B:structure• C:reason• D:power

• What is the idea of reducing the world and our experience of the world to its simplest bits?

• A) phenominology• B) atomist• C) reelativist• D) idealist

• Plotinus took ________’s idea of “emanation” and said that in a sense, god emanated the world into being and was the world.

• A. Descartes • B. Aristotle• C. Plato• D. Socrates

• Who asked of philosophy “Where are all the women?”

• A. Simone de Beauvoir• B. Nietzsche• C. Margaret Fuller

• What was Boethius’ book called?• A: Consolation of Philosophy• B: Consolations of Philosophy• C: Pickles and Philosophy

Group 1 (16)

• What was the first collective and written book for Jewish religion?

• A. The Torah• B. The Mishnah• C. The Bible• D. The Koran

• Which philosophies did Augustine not explore?

• A) Epicurean• B) Christianity• C) Manichaean• D) [insert philosophy]

• True/False: Al-Razi wrote the book, The Book of the Emerald.

Group 1- 16

• Al-Kindo wrote that Muslims “should not be ashamed to acknowledge ______ and to assimilate it from whatever source it comes to us.

• A)Truth• B)Faith• C)Knowledge• D)Bigotry

Group 4 (16)

Al-Ghazzali liked Aristotle’s philosophy, but found fault with 20 of his arguments for God. True or False?

In New Age philosophy, people believe that you can change your reality simply by the way you think about it. True or False?

• Gnostics believed that salvation could be achieved through special knowledge of spiritual truth. What is this knowledge called?

Who is accredited with writing the Zohar?