WHAT COUNTS AS “PHILOSOPHY”? A. WHERE IT IS POSSIBLE, PUT ANSWERS IN YOUR OWN WORDS. B. INCLUDE THE QUESTIONS IN YOUR SUBMISSIONS, NOT MERELY THE ANSWERS. COPY AND PASTE THE QUESTIONS BELOW INTO A WORD FILE. TYPE YOUR ANSWERS UNDERNEATH THE QUESTIONS.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BRIEF OUTLINE.pdf What acronyms did you notice? In your own words, who is Thales? In your own words, what separated Western philosophy from other schools of thought? In your own words, what is required for knowledge? What kind of knowledge is epistemology concerned with? BROAD OUTLINE.v.15.pdf (HISTORY section only) In your own words, what is the difference between "cosmogony" and "cosmology"? In your own words, why is it the case that for many people Thales and the Greeks get credit for being the creators of Western philosophy instead of the Egyptians? In your own words, how many kinds of Western philosophy are there? And how are they different? HISTORY.W.T. Jones's Introduction to The Classical Mind.pdf In your own words, according to Jones, what caused Greek philosophy? Were the people responsible for creating Greek philosophy already "philosophers", or something else? What kind of research were they involved in? HISTORY.W.T. Jones's Introduction to Pre-Socratic Philosophy.pdf In your own words, why does Jones put the word "Begin" in quotes? In your own words, what two words does Jones italicize, and why does he italicize them? In your own words, according to Jones, what is the definitive beginning of his "A History of Western Philosophy"? In your own words, what does Jones say about our ability to tell the history of Western philosophy? In your own words, how does Jones plan to tell the history of Western philosophy? BIRTH OF MAJOR WESTERN PHILOSOPHERS (IN CONTEXT) 2.pdf How many groups of Ancient Greek thinkers (before the birth of Christ) are highlighted? Which ones, according to W.T. Jones, are not philosophers? According to Jones, could there be other examples of circa 600 bce thinking (other than Thales) that everyone would call "philosophical"? Is it possible that some of the "Pre-Socratics" were active at the same time that Socrates was? How many months was there in a Roman calendar year? How Calendars Are Made.pdf Who is responsible (for the most part) for the current Western calendar that says we are in year 2020? That is, who did away with the calendar that kept alive the memory of Diocletian? How many months are there in the Ethiopian calendar year? If you could create a new calendar that the whole world would eventually be forced to follow, what important historical event would you choose to mark the first year of your calendar? What calendar, relative to the birth of Christ, has the earliest starting point? 1 ARISTOTLE claims THALES is founder of Western philosophy - Metaphysics - 1.3 983b18–27 = DK 11A12 - P. 693-702-Richard McKeon ed. Modern Library 2001 How many causes does Aristotle speak of? What are they? When Aristotle talks about the first philosophers, what does he say that they believe the principles of all things is made of? What does Aristotle say about what the first philosophers believed about the number and nature of first principles? According to Aristotle, who was the founder of "this type of philosophy"? A. According to Aristotle, what did this person believe was the first principle? B. According to Aristotle, what conclusion did this person come to on this basis? C. According to Aristotle, what reasons did this person probably have to support A above? 1.1 Aristotle on THALES as founder of Western Philosophy-by Richard D. McKirahan-Philosophy Before Socrates-2nd ed.-Hackett publishing 2010 In your own words, according to the text what is the difference between a "philosopher" and a "speculator about the gods"? In your own words, according to Aristotle, what did Thales believe about magnets? The Basis of Metaphysics and The First Metaphysicians, PP. 113-115 (Solomon and Higgins, “The Big Questions” [Textbook] In your own words, how is Solomon and Higgins's definition of "cosmology" different from the same's definition in the Broad Outline? In your own words, according to Solomon and Higgins what monumental step forward did the Greek philosophers take? Expanding the Philosophical Canon, P. 298 (Solomon and Higgins, “The Big Questions” [Textbook] In your own words, is "philosophy" limited to "Western philosophy"? Why or why not? According to Solomon and Higgins, what is the bare minimum required for a civilizations's thinking to count as "philosophy"? In your own words, according to K. Anthony Appiah what have feminists philosophers argued? Did Plato have female students? What reasons do Solomon and Higgins give for the relative lack of female philosophers in the official canon of philosophy? According to Solomon and Higgins, what did medieval Arabic, Jewish, and Persian philosophers do with Greek and Roman philosophies during the European Dark Ages? During the European Dark Ages, what were Ancient Greek and Roman philosophies considered? According to Solomon and Higgins, what is at least one difference between Chinese philosophy and Western philosophy?