1. What do people keep assuming about Sophie that may suggest they do not take her seriously as a thinker? 2. What was the role of women in philosophy prior to the last 150 years? Why? 3. What is

1. What do people keep assuming about Sophie that may suggest they do not take her seriously as a thinker?

2. What was the role of women in philosophy prior to the last 150 years? Why?

3. What is a “philosopher’s project?”

A. The school where philosophers are trained

B. The impact philosophers try to have on government

C. The letters philosophers send to 14 year old girls

D. The subject a philosopher studies

4. What branch of philosophy are the Pre-Socratic philosophers primarily practicing?

A. Ethics

B. Natural philosophy

C. Metaphysics

D. Greek philosophy

5. What is that branch called today?

6. The Pre-Socratic philosophers are searching for the “basic constituent substance.” What does that mean?

7. Which term means “some real being,” a broad term roughly equivalent to “stuff” or “thing?”

8. What is a second meaning for the above term? (Choices on next page)

A. The smallest possible building block of matter

B. The subject a philosopher studies

C. That which makes a thing the kind of thing it is

D. Love and strife

9. Who is the first major Greek philosopher?

A. Thales

B. Aristotle

C. Empedocles

D. Eden Bryant

10. The philosopher from question 9 believed that everything is made of the same stuff, water, so what did he say is in everything that makes things different from each other?

11. For Anaximander, what is both the source and the goal of everything in every world?

12. Though he did not use the word, the answer to the previous question introduces what important concept into Western thought?

A. Nature

B. Science

C. Leisure

D. God

13. How are Parmenides’ and Heraclitus’ ideas exact opposites?

14. Heraclitus was a pantheist. What does this mean? (Choices continue on next page)

A. There is one God.

B. There are many gods.

C. There is no God.

D. Everything is God.

15. Heraclitus introduced the concept of _______________, a universal, divine Reason/Word/Law that is the source of all reality.

16. Five centuries after Heraclitus, which new religion will identify its founder with the answer to the previous question?

A. Christianity

B. Logic

C. Islam

D. Hinduism

17. Empedocles said that everything is built out of four basic ingredients, which he called ________________. 

18. What force brings things together for Empedocles?

19. Describe Anaxagoras theory of seeds.

A. Planting seeds allows crops to grow

B. False ideas are like seeds caught in your teeth

C. The whole is present in every part

D. Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1999 B.C.

20. What is a rationalist?

A. One who claims only reason can be trusted, not your senses

B. Anyone who claims it is important to be rational

C. One who studies ratios and proportions

D. One who builds and repairs radios

21. What is a materialist?

22. How does Sophie plan to discover who is sending her the letters? 

23. Democritus was the first to theorize the existence of __________________

A. Adam

B. ATMs

C. Atoms

D. The phrase “up and at ‘em” 

Link to the story for the question: https://www.rcboe.org/cms/lib/GA01903614/Centricity/Domain/2820/sophies%20world%20full%20text.pdf