PHI 101 Socrates

What was the Oracle at Delphi's ambiguous reply to the question: Is anyone wiser than Socrates?

"No man is wiser than Socrates."

What did Socrates say about the unexamined life?

"the unexamined life is not worth living"

Socrates used sarcasm as a technique for keeping his listeners alert and involved. T or F.

False

The Socratic dialectic is an especially moving speech, one that raises powerful emotions. T or F.

False

The two main sources of information about Socrates are _____.

Plato and Xenophon

_____ is what we think of today as a combination of the mind and soul.

Psyche

It is almost impossible to separate what Socrates taught from his whole personality. T or F.

True

Socrates asserted that a life devoid of philosophical speculation is not fully functioning and so lacks virtue or excellence. T or F.

True

Socrates believed that an individual who is at the mercy of bodily pleasures has no concern for virtue in any form. T or F.

True

Socrates believed that the teacher's role is to draw wisdom and clarity out of a disordered and confused soul. T or F.

True

Socrates insisted that the "real person" is not the body, but the psyche. T or F.

True

According to the Melchert text, to benefit from a conversation with Socrates, you need to be

a person of a certain character

A paradigmatic individual is _____.

a rare human being whose very nature represents something elemental about the human condition

Socrates' jury consisted of _____.

about five hundred Athenian citizens

According to the Melchert text, conversations with Socrates generally end with

agreement that a satisfactory answer hadn't been reached

Another name for a paradigmatic individual is _____.

an archetypal individual

Socrates said that to have no wants is _____.

divine

According to the Melchert text, we know about Socrates primarily

from Plato's dialogues

Socrates thought he possessed _____ wisdom.

human

Socrates believed that _____.

humans always seek what they perceive to be their own welfare

Once convicted, Socrates was expected to _____ at the next stage of his trial.

humiliate himself

According to Socrates, all evil is _____.

ignorance

For Socrates, temperance meant _____.

indifference to both the presence and absence of material pleasures

Socrates used _____ to communicate on more than one level.

irony

Thrasymachus tells Socrates that justice _____.

is defined as the interest of the stronger party

Socrates believes that

it is better to suffer injustice than to do it

Socrates compared himself to _____.

midwife

Socrates thought that the first step toward wisdom _____.

must begin with an honest admission of our present ignorance

Jaspers refers to Socrates' profession of ignorance as _____.

nonknowledge

Socrates considered himself to be a kind of _____.

physician of the soul

Socrates believed that human excellence was based on a special kind of knowledge that the Greeks referred to as _____.

techne

The Socratic method is also known as _____.

the Socratic dialectic

A vital aspect of Socratic teaching was _____.

the active involvement of the audience

Intellectualism is _____.

the claim that behavior is always controlled by beliefs about what is good

Socrates identified the soul with _____.

the conscious self

The Socratic method begins with the assumption that _____.

the function of education is to draw the truth out of the student

Socrates believed that _____ is the essence of humanness.

the human soul

Athenian trials consisted of _____ parts.

two

According to the Melchert text, in discussions with others, Socrates

was happy to be refuted

According to Socrates, there is no such thing as _____.

weakness of will