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Introduction to Philosophy

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Introduction to PhilosophyReview Questions

4.1 Historiography and the History of Philosophy

1 .
What are the advantage and disadvantages of a presentist approach to the history of philosophy?
2 .
What are the advantages and disadvantages of a contextualist approach to the history of philosophy?
3 .
What approach to the history of philosophy represents a middle ground between the presentists and the contextualists?

4.2 Classical Philosophy

4 .
What evidence suggests that many of the ideas that we attribute to Greek philosophers may have had their origin in ancient Egypt or Babylonia?
5 .
How can one justify Parmenides’s claim that the world is unchanging?
6 .
What are Aristotle’s four causes, and how did he apply them?
7 .
Why did the Epicureans embrace empiricism?
8 .
How did Neoplatonism adapt Plato’s theory of forms to explain the imperfections in the world a perfect God created?

4.3 Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Philosophy

9 .
How is Jewish, Christian, and Muslim philosophy different from classical philosophy?
10 .
How did Philo of Alexandria develop Plato and Aristotle’s ideas to explain the creation?
11 .
How did Ibn Sina’s scientific approach differ from that of the Aristotle and the Epicureans?
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