1)  He claims that democracy is a danger due to excessive freedom. a) Socrates b) Aristotle c) Plato 2) He is famous for saying that he knows nothing and that the unexamined life is not worth living a) Socrates b) Kant c) Plato 3) “Philosophy”, he says, “is its own time comprehended in thoughts” a) Hegel b) Kant c) Plato 4) He was fascinated by how things really work. For him , philosophy was about practical wisdom a) Hegel b) Aristotle c) Plato 5) He himself had still believed in the project of a purely conceptual metaphysics achievable by the use of the regressive or analytic method a) Hegel b) Aristotle c) Kant 6) In Plato's three classes in his ideal society: those who are the most intelligent, rational, self-controlled,in love with wisdom. a) Producers or Workers b) Auxiliaries/Soldier c) Guardians (Philosopher kings) 7) In Plato's three classes in his ideal society: Those who keep order in the society and protect it from invaders a) Producers or Workers b) Auxiliaries/Soldier c) Guardians (Philosopher kings) 8) In Plato's three classes in his ideal society: those who make the goods and services in the society  a) Producers or Workers b) Auxiliaries/Soldier c) Guardians (Philosopher kings) 9) Plato’s Five Forms of Government: rule by wealth and landownership; like a free-trading capitalist state a) Monarchy and Aristocracy b) Timocracy c) Oligarchy 10) Plato’s Five Forms of Government: rule by pure liberty and equality, where the people vote on and make laws a) Monarchy and Aristocracy b) Democracy and Anarchy c) Oligarchy 11) Plato’s Five Forms of Government:  rule by the wise; like ideal traditional “benevolent” kingdoms that aren’t tyrannical a) Monarchy and Aristocracy b) Timocracy c) Tyranny 12) Plato’s Five Forms of Government:  rule by honor; like a “benevolent” military a) Monarchy and Aristocracy b) Timocracy c) Democracy and Anarchy 13) Plato’s Five Forms of Government: rule by fear, without just laws; like a despot a) Monarchy and Aristocracy b) Timocracy c) Tyranny 14) Four central ideas of Plato: you need to get together with the person who contains a key missing bit of your evolution: the virtues you don’t have. a) Think Harder b) Love More Wisely c) The Importance of beauty 15) Four central ideas of Plato: Plato sees art as therapeutic: it is the duty of poets and painters to help us live good lives. a) The Importance of beauty b) Love More Wisely c) Changing society  Changing society 16) Four central ideas of Plato: Our lives go wrong in large part because we almost never give ourselves time to think carefully and logically enough about our plans a) Think Harder Think  b) Love More Wisely c) The Importance of beauty 17) Four central ideas of Plato: how the government and society should ideally be a) Think Harder Think  b) Love More Wisely c) Changing society 18) A name based on the Greek word for wisdom. Taught valuable skills, especially rhetoric, for a price.  a) Dualist b) Philosopher c) Sophist 19) He died for impiety for not believing in the gods of the city and for introducing new gods. a) Socrates b) Xenophon c) Plato 20) He said "It should be one of the functions of a teacher to open views before his pupils, showing them the possibility of activities that will be as delightful as they are useful." a) Xenophon b) Socrates c) Bertrand Russell 21) The phenomena known through the faculty of sensibility from the noumena known ____________? a) purely conceptually b) validity and limitations c) critique of pure reason, 22) To be regarded as a type of propaedeutic to philosophy rather than an exercise in or work of philosophy. a) Phenomenology’s telos b) Phenomenology of Spirit c) Shapes of consciousness 23) A first-order ontological doctrine,a category theory that simultaneously represents structures of being and thought a) Critique of Pure Reason b) “transcendental logic” c) Science of Logic 24) Written as a teaching manual, various parts of which were later expanded upon in lecture courses devoted to specific parts of the system. a) Hegel’s Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences b) Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature c) Philosophy of Subjective and Objective Spirit 25) Represents a sophisticated attempt to think through epistemological assumptions that are presupposed by the development of Newton’s theory. a) Hegel’s Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences b) Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature c) Philosophy of Subjective and Objective Spirit 26) Can be read as a political philosophy that stands independently of the system a) Philosophy of Subjective and Objective Spirit b) Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature c) Philosophy of Right 27) He treated aesthetic experience largely in relation to the experience of the beauty of nature a) Kant b) Hegel c) Aristotle 28) The peculiarity of art lies in the _________________ of the medium in which its content is objectified. a) art b) sensuousness c) subjective consciousness 29) Aristotle's founded research and teaching a) The Lyceum b) The Academia c) The school of wise 30) Knowing how to have a good conversation is one of the key ingredients of the good life, Aristotle recognized. a) What makes people happy? b) What are friends for? c) What is art for?

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