《西方思想经典》复习

1. W h a t d o e s t h e w o r d“B I B L E”m e a n?b o o k

2. In Plato’s allegory of the cave, what does the sun represent?Truth

3. Who came up with the sardonic讽刺的theory of humor?Thomas Hobbes

4. According to genesis, god created how many days?Six days

5. Who once attended Plato’s academy学院?Aristotle

6. Which writer was imprisoned被囚禁during World WarⅡ？Jean-Paul Sartre

7. According to genesis, what is the name of the place where Eve and Atom lived？

The Garden of Eden

8. Nicolo Machiavelli was what nationality? Italian

9. According to genesis, which part does god use to create Eve from Atom？Rib

10. What is the Sabbath day? The day of rest

11. What is a leviathan?Sea monster

12. Who said love your enemies?Jesus

13. Who does Saul murder in Acts of the Apostles? Stephen (Stoned)

14. What may be seen as an irrationalist revolt against traditional Western

philosoph y, idealism in particular, as it rejects epistemology and the attempt to ground human knowledge?Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialism

15. What is a saint?A saint is a holy person.In the Christian Bible, only one

person is expressly called a saint: "They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD."

16. Which female writer lived a “free, lifelong association” with Jean-Paul

Sartre?Simone de Beauvoir

17. What is a centurion百夫长?Roman soldier

18. It is much safer to be feared than loved.Machiavelli: The Prince

19. Men living together according to reason with out a common superior or earth,

with authority to judge between them is properly the state of Nature.John Locke: Of Civil Government

20. Our Father, which art in heaven/hallowed be thy name;thy kingdom come;thy

will be done,in earth as it is in heaven.Give us this day our daily bread.And

forgive us our trespasses,as we forgive them that trespass against us.And lead us not into temptation;but deliver us from evil.[For thine is the kingdom,the power, and the glory,for ever and ever.]Amen.Matthew

21. In the beginning god created the heaven and the earth.Genesis

22. Rather, it declares that even if god did exist, that would change nothing.

Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialism

23. Behold! Human beings living in a underground den, which has a mouth open

towards the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads. Above and behind them a fire is blazing at a distance, and between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised way;Plato: The Republic

24. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.Matthew

25. God is a useless and costly hypothesis假设.Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialism

26. This human animal—prescient, sagacious, complex, acute, full of memory,

reason and counsel, which we call man,—is generated by the supreme God in

a more transcendent condition than most of his fellow–creatures. For he is the

only creature among the earthly races of animated beings endued with superior reason and thought, in which the rest are deficient. And what is there, I do not say in man alone, but in all heaven and earth, more divine than reason, which, when it becomes ripe and perfect, is justly termed wisdom?Cicero: On the Laws

27. Thus humanity is male and man defines woman not in herself but as relative to

him; she is not regarded as an autonomous being.Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex

28. Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of