HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION

Teacher asking questions that stimulate students to investigate perennial human. Which philosopher is using this method?

• Socrates

• Aristotle

• Plato

• Francis Bacon

Who was the philosopher that greatly influenced Thomas Aquinas?

• Plato

• Aristotle

• John Piaget

• John Dewey

The two teaching methods as described by Aquinas include:

• lecture and discussion

• discovery and lecture

• learning and discovery

• teach and learn

Rationality is seen as:

• The capability to evaluate choices through reasoning

• The reason for the creation of evil by God, to give a better meaning to the world

• The ability to use your senses to understand the world around you

St. Augustine thought that since man is rational, we didn’t necessarily need God since we would be able to choose good over evil easily.

• True

• False

Hobbes believed that all people were politically _____________.

• Equal

• Unequal

Why does Descartes think we are all equally equipped with reason?

• Because we all evolved from the same species

• Reason is an essential property of being human, and we're all equally human

• He's just being modest—he actually thinks his reason is far superior

• Our brains are all roughly the same size

Which of the following subjects did Descartes most admire as a student?

• Mathematics

• Philosophy

• Poetry

• Science

Which institute of higher learning was found by Plato?

• Academy of Athens

• Library of Alexandria

• University of Bologna

• Incorrect University of Paris

  
  

  University of Paris

According to Aristotle, what is the relationship of the body and the soul?

• Inseparable

• Indescribable

• Irrelevant

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