https://openstax.org/books/introduction-philosophy/pages/1-introduction. CHAPTER 4 Read the assigned reading from the chapter. Then choose ONE of the questions from each section below to answer. Answers from each section you chose should be a minimum of 1 paragraph. Be sure to explain your answers and give reasons for your views. You should cite the textbook and use brief quotations and summaries from the textbook in your response. Do NOT use any other sources besides the textbook; DO NOT restate the question in your response (just the question # is sufficient). 4.1 Historiography and the History of Philosophy 1. What are the advantage and disadvantages of a presentist approach to the history of philosophy? 2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of a contextualist approach to the history of philosophy? 3. What approach to the history of philosophy represents a middle ground between the presentists and the contextualists? 4.2 Classical Philosophy 4. What evidence suggests that many of the ideas that we attribute to Greek philosophers may have had their origin in ancient Egypt or Babylonia? 5. How can one justify Parmenides’s claim that the world is unchanging? 6. What are Aristotle’s four causes, and how did he apply them? 7. How can one justify Parmenides’s claim that the world is unchanging? 8. What are Aristotle’s four causes, and how did he apply them? 4.3 Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Philosophy 9. How is Jewish, Christian, and Muslim philosophy different from classical philosophy? 10. How did Philo of Alexandria develop Plato and Aristotle’s ideas to explain the creation? 11. How did Ibn Sina’s scientific approach differ from that of the Aristotle and the Epicureans?
