Prelims Practice Quiz on Understanding Self
Self
Something that a person perenially molds, shapes, and even develops.
Greeks
Seriously questioned myths and moved away from them in attempting to understand reality
and respond to perennial questions of curiousity, including the question of the self.
Pre-Socratics
Pre-occupied themselves with the question of the primary substratum.
Arché
Explains the multiplicity of things in the world.
Pre-Socratics
Were concerned with explaining what the world is really made up of, why the world is so,
and what explains the changes that they observed around them.
Pre-Socratics
Endeavored to finally locate an explanation about the nature of change, the seeming
permanence despite change and the unity of the world amidst its diversity.
Socrates
Firs philosopher who ever engaged in a systematic questioning about the self. This was his
life long mission, the true task of the philosopher is to know oneself.
Socrates
"The unexamined life is not worth living"
Socrates
Declared without regret during his trial that his being indicated was brought about by his
going around Athens engaging men, yound and old to question their presuppositions about
themselves and about the world, particularly about who they are.
Socrates
Served as a gadfly that disturbed Athenian men from their slumber, and shook them off in
order to reach truth and wisdom.