Aristotle, skeptics & stoics

1. Aristotle's students at the _______ were known as ________.

2. The syllogism is a basic logical ________ form.

3. Aristotle opposed Plato's view that Forms (Ideas, Universals) are transcendent, contending instead that forms are in ________.

4. Aristotle's four basic causes are material, final, ________, and _______. He called the final cause behind everything, the ultimate purpose or ________, the ______ ______. Only the ________ cause is still widely invoked in modern scientific explanations.

5. In ethics we should always search, said Aristotle, for the ______.

6. ________ developed the physics of leverage and hydraulics, and thought "Eureka" moments could provide sudden, intuitive insight. (Hint: he made the highlight reel in the Philosophy Football Cup final.)

7. Pyrrho was a _______, making systematic doubt central in his philosophy. Diogenes was a ______ who did contemptible things in public to show his contempt for public opinion.

8. One of the Romans' great practical achievements, besides architecture, infrastructure, and aqueducts, was _________. (Hint: a popular major at MTSU.)

9. ________, whose actual philosophy was quite different from the modern meaning of the adjective it inspired, said we must conquer fear, ignorance, and superstition in order to experience pleasure and be happy.

10. _______, a _____ philosopher, was ordered by the Emperor _____ (his student) to kill himself. The Emperor __________ said (with a bee analogy) that the interests of individuals are inseparable from those of society.