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#1
Q: 'Know thyself' — what did Socrates mean?
A: Self-examination is the foundation of wisdom.
#2
Q: Plato's Theory of Forms?
A: Physical world is a copy of perfect abstract Forms existing in higher reality.
#3
Q: What is utilitarianism?
A: Greatest good for the greatest number (Bentham, Mill).
#4
Q: Kant's Categorical Imperative?
A: Act only by rules you'd want as universal laws.
#5
Q: What is existentialism?
A: Humans define their own meaning; existence precedes essence (Sartre, Camus).
#6
Q: What is epistemology?
A: The study of knowledge — what we can know and how.
#7
Q: Descartes' famous statement?
A: 'Cogito, ergo sum' — I think, therefore I am.
#8
Q: What is nihilism?
A: The belief that life has no inherent meaning or value.
#9
Q: What is the trolley problem?
A: Is it ethical to divert a trolley to kill 1 instead of 5?
#10
Q: What is empiricism?
A: Knowledge comes from sensory experience (Locke, Hume).
#11
Q: What is stoicism?
A: We control our responses, not external events — practise virtue.
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