Study Guide for Exam 1
You should know the definitions of the following words and concepts for fill-in-the-blank questions:
Ontology
Epistemology
Value Theory
Materialism
Idealism
Dualism
Monism
Pluralism
Empiricism
tabula rasa
a posteriori
| Rationalism
innate ideas
a priori
Skepticism
True Opinion
Knowledge
Theory of Forms
Noumenal Realm
Phenomenal Realm
Platonic Dualism
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In addition you should be able to explain the following concepts.
- Socrates's Theory of Forms
- Socrates' Theory of Knowledge as Recollection
- The role of the slave boy in demonstrating this theory
- The difference between Knowledge and True Opinion (be sure to be able to illustrate it with an example)
- Plato's Theory of Forms
- The Allegory of the Cave and some of the major conclusions we draw from it
- Aristotle's Four Causes
- The difference between Luck and Chance in Aristotle
- Aristotle's rejection of the theory of evolution by natural selection and what this says about Aristotle's overall Metaphysical world view
- Aristotle's prime mover and his argument for it.
- Pyrrhonic Skepticism; what it is concerned with; what its methods are; and what its aim or purpose is.
- The 10 modes of Pyrrhonic Skepticism
Lastly, you should be prepared to write a short essay in which you use the terminology introduced in class to discuss the epistemological position in the film 12 Angry Men and compare it with the epistemological positions of the philosophers we have studied. |
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