Deck 4: Aristotle

Question 1

Aristotle believed that humans have _____ souls, which form a single unity.

A) one
B) two
C) three
D) four

Answer 1

C

Question 2

What did Aristotle say about change?

A) It is an illusion.
B) It is a movement from potentiality to actuality.
C) It is a movement from actuality to potentiality.
D) It doesn't require God.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

According to Aristotle, universals exist separately or apart from particulars.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The term _____ is owed to Aristotle, or at least to those who cataloged his works.

A) moral philosophy
B) metaphysics
C) epistemology
D) political philosophy

Question 5

Aristotle sought to define things by determining how a thing is similar to other things and how it is specifically different.

Question 6

Which of the following works of Aristotle dealt with natural science?

A) the Rhetoric
B) the Eudemian Ethics
C) the Nicomachean Ethics
D) the Politics

Question 7

Which of the following is NOT one of the ten basic categories Aristotle used to describe the ways in which humans think about things?

A) posture
B) activity
C) quality
D) weight

Question 8

Aristotle was the first philosopher to discuss being in terms of existence and essence or, more exactly, in terms of existence and substance.

Question 9

Which of the following works of Aristotle consisted of six treatises on logic?

A) the Organum
B) the Physics
C) the Eudemian Ethics
D) the De Anima

Question 10

Aristotle defined humans as irrational animals.

Question 11

Aristotle wrote Politics.

Question 12

What does Aristotle mean by the efficient cause of a thing?

A) What is it made of?
B) What made it?
C) What sort of thing is it?
D) What is it good for?

Question 13

The Third Man argument is an extension of the Theory of Forms.

Question 14

Aristotle's works include all of the following EXCEPT _____.

A) the Confessions
B) the Metaphysics
C) the Poetics
D) the Nicomachean Ethics

Question 15

In Aristotle's opinion, each thing is a combination of matter and form.

Question 16

If you want to say what a thing is, which of Aristotle's four causes must you provide?

A) the final cause
B) the efficient cause
C) the formal cause
D) the material cause

Question 17

What is a syllogism?

A) a logical fallacy
B) a kind of inference
C) any group of three propositions
D) a complete description of a thing